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Four young cowboys head to the Green River territory in Utah in search of cheap land on which to raise herds of cattle. What they find is a dangerous, unsettled territory--with Indian trouble, law trouble, and woman trouble.
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Because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, Hardy's novel was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Durbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D'Urberville, a distant aristocratic relative, leads to pregnancy. Tess's baby dies, and she finds work as a dairymaid at a farm where no one knows her story. From that point, her life, which includes marriage with a man, Angel Clare, who fails to realize her worth, enters a downward spiral, culminating in the sensational tragedy that is at the heart of the book. The cynical and sophisticated Alec's seduction of a country girl, and the self-righteous Angel's destructive idealization of her, can be seen as symbols of the city's ruthless exploitation of the English countryside--a common theme in Hardy's fiction. His compassionate portrait of a young countrywoman was also characteristic of his writing, which never failed to champion the cause of rural lives and values against those of the corrupting city.
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The 20th mystery in the Capital Crimes series links a corrupt federal government to organized crime. Louis Russo, an aging ex-mobster/government snitch is preparing to do his part to publicize an upcoming book about his life. Part of the book details Russo's involvement in a secret international operation orchestrated by the very highest level of government. The desire to keep that information quiet supplies the probable motive for Russo's murder, which occurs just after he arrives in Washington, D. C.'s Union Station for a planned meeting with Richard Marienthal, the book's author. Soon Marienthal himself as well as his librarian girlfriend may be endangered by Marienthal's desire to pursue a good story.
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Jane Marsh had loved the Scottish estate called Elvie, and Sinclair, who she had dreamed of marrying. Now she has been called back from California and will find passion.
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