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1) Observer
Author
Publisher
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins's star has been on the rise. But when she accuses a superior of sexual misconduct, the Twitterstorm that follows upends her career. With few professional options and an impoverished sister with a disabled child to support, Caro is willing to consider a mysterious proposal from her great-uncle, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Samuel Watkins. Sam Watkins has invested untold sums of money to build a medical facility in the...
Author
Publisher
Banyan Tree Books
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. Like a modern Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed, horrified, and overwhelmed by...
3) Rabbit, run
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Series
Publisher
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Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his--or any other--generation. Its hero is Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one time high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty--even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine grace....
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 130
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is a masterpiece of feminist philosophy, a novel whose pioneering vision and keen literary sensibility have established it as a landmark in the development of feminist awareness and made it required reading in courses worldwide. The Awakening tells the story of Edna Pontellier - a sensitive and artistic woman married to a New Orleans Creole - whose urgent quest for human freedom and truth is fulfilled by none of...
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