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In SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen writes about two ways of looking at the world in the personalities of two sisters, Elinor the determinedly practical and Marianne the madly romantic. Forced to live in reduced circumstances with their widowed mother and younger sister, the Dashwood girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive in the world, and the way in which this goal is eventually accomplished provides the plot of this delightful novel, the first of Jane Austen's to be published (1811). As SENSE AND SENSIBILITY progresses to the requisite happy ending, Elinor and Marianne and their suitors are subjected to a volley of misunderstandings, jealousies, and manipulations--and to Jane Austen's mercilessly satirical look at provincial life. As she herself stated, Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on--and in doing so, Austen perfected the comedy of manners, zeroing in on her characters and their relationship to the society in which they live--an achievement that brought her closer to the later novels of the Victorian era and the 20th century than to those that preceded her.
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From the author of You Only Love Twice comes the story of Abbie Vayle, a beautiful young book collector whose latest acquisition has a mysterious code scribbled in the margins. Abbie has no idea that she is about to be plunged into a desperate race against time--in the company of exactly the kind of man she has vowed never, never to fall for.
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Set in the mid-18th century, this paranormal romance from bestselling author Mary Jo Putney is the first in a projected series about the Guardians, British magicians who hide their powers among mundanes. Gwynne Owens, a noble Englishwoman and Guardian, believes that she has very little magical power of her own. But she cannot deny the attraction she feels for the Scottish Guardian Duncan Macrae, a powerful weather sorcerer--nor the magic within her that his kiss calls forth. Unfortunately, their passionate romance is threatened by Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebellion, which launches a civil war between England and Scotland.
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