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Michelle M. White
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What if all you had to do was give your worries to The Worry Jar ™ and you could work through anything? In this book, Michelle teaches our youngest children a strategy to handle their fear, insecurity, and anxiety. The fun loving character, The Worry Jar, will encourage them while using fun, repetitive words as a reminder the worry is in the jar. When you write down your worry and put it in The Worry Jar ™, you don't have to think about it. However,...
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Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wildes story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the authors most popular work. The tale of Dorian Grays moral disintegration caused a scandal when it rst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novels corrupting inuence, he responded that there is, in fact, "a terrible moral in Dorian Gray."...
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A haunting tale of Gothic romance and bitter vengeance entwines two families in a life and death drama spanning three generations. The windswept landscape of the Yorkshire moors is a fitting backdrop to the equally stormy inhabitants of the bleak farmhouse, Wuthering Heights, and the noble mansion called Thrushcross Grange. When circumstances bring the Linton and Earnshaw families together with the orphan Heathcliff, a complex saga of all-consuming...
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Join the sailors aboard the Nellie as they listen to Marlow's dark atmospheric tale of the depths of human depravity. Follow his descent into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious Kurtz. Witness with him the horrors of imperialism and idealistic hypocrisy as he comes to question the very idea of civilization. Find out how Marlow and Kurtz fare in this short but intense psychological drama. This unabridged edition was first, published...
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Shocking and scandalous in its day, this novel of a young woman's artistic and sexual awakening is now revered as a captivating and sensual feminist classic. Edna has it all, a loving husband, two adoring little boys, summers at the beach with friends, a life of luxury - but something is missing. She's not content like the "mother-women" around her. Her husband and friends think she is behaving strangely and becoming unbalanced as she begins to push...
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"And this man I bent over, this commonplace, quiet stranger, how had he become involved in the web of horror and why had the Fury flown at him?"
This Gothic Romance of strength, rebellion, and desire will stick with you long after you've finished reading. An orphan girl is, forced to find her own way in Victorian England and becomes a governess in a gothic mansion that has dark and terrifying secrets. When the mysterious master of the house returns,...
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Travel down the Mississippi River on a raft with Tom Sawyer's cohort, Huckleberry Finn, as he rebels against "sivilization," and his friend, Jim, runs from slavery. This tale of freedom and friendship amidst the racism and corrupt values of the pre-Civil War South is, told through Huck's eyes as he and Jim navigate the perils of fog, frauds, and feuding families. Mark Twain has delighted generations with his unforgettable characters and scalding social...
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"For an indefinite time I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite unheeding how I went, and when I brought myself to look at the dials again I was amazed to find where I had arrived."
Embark on a journey hundreds of thousands of years into the future on a homemade time machine! The Time Traveler discovers what he first perceives as a perfect pastoral landscape inhabited by an evolved form of humanity, but soon he discovers the dark...
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"Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in [this] Austen's beloved classic. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike...