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Laid off from his sales rep job, Robert Paul decides to pursue his dream of becoming a writer and unexpectedly pens a best seller, but when his new world compromises his marriage, he receives unexpected guidance from a stranger

When twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter's brother joins the Army and is sent to Vietnam, Jamie is thrilled. SHe can't wait to get letters from the fornt lines describing the excitement of real-life combat: the sound of helicopters, the smell of gunpowder, the exhilaration of being right in the thick of it all.

A well-published, numerous-times-divorced woman leaves her lover to embark on a personal journey that begins on the Colorado River and traverses through her past and into her future, while her lover begins his own parallel voyage.

Van Leone, broken hearted after her best friend marries the only man Van has ever loved, is inspired by vodka and a "Rin Tin Tin" marathon and buys a German shepherd puppy on the Internet, only to learn, upon delivery, that she has purchased a full-grown Slovakian police dog, whom she names Joe.

Cohen delivers a stunning debut novel, written as one woman's letter to the married man who has just dumped her. Annotation: Cohen delivers a stunning debut novel, written as one woman's letter to the married man who has just dumped her.

Now in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, the timeless novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness, from Edward Abbey, one of America's foremost defenders of the natural environment. Black Sun is a bittersweet love story involving an iconoclastic forest ranger and a freckle-faced "American princess" half his age. Like Lady Chatterley's lover, he initiates her into the rites of sex and the stark, secret harmonies of his wilderness...

"Piper's older brother leaves Peek-A-Book Island and Piper refuses to take off his old earmuffs, no matter what! Things are going from bad to worse... until she discovers The Fairy Tree"--

"Gliding over the treacherous Green in a shaky aircraft that she has no idea how to land, Violet Bates is still in shock. The harrowing events of the previous night play over in her mind as she asks herself question after questions...When Violet manages to reach the toxic ground alive, she has landed in a world of unimaginable danger..." (From back cover).

Charlotte Bronte's last and most autobiographical novel, Villette, explores the inner life of a lonely young Englishwoman, Lucy Snowe, who leaves an unhappy existence in England to become a teacher in the capital of a fictional European country. Drawn to the school's headmaster, Lucy must face the pain of unrequited love and the question of her place in society.

New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico.