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"A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected-and the man she enlists to help her-in this sizzling new romance by USA Today bestselling author Helen Hoang. When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to be perfect in other people's eyes. If Anna ever wants to move forward, she has to learn to listen to her own heart, but...
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Television scriptwriter Tony Jordan examines Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations in this episode of The Secret Life of Books. He visits the Kent marshes of Dickens's childhood, and the museum that houses Dickens's original manuscript where he discusses the edited ending of Great Expectations with Dr. Holly Furneaux. At Gad's Hill Place where Dickens lived in 1856, we hear about the hidden affair that may have influenced the tragic tone and edited...
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Cultural historian Dr. David Parker and Thelma Grove of the International Dickens Fellowship analyze the characters and plot of Dickens' popular and enduring novel. Using dramatized key scenes from the work, Parker and Grove discuss the behavior of the characters and speculate on Dickens' intentions when he placed them in the various predicaments depicted. Several of these situations are associated with actual people and events in Dickens' hometown...
5) Understanding Great expectations: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
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A collection of writings discussing England's justice system, geography, performing arts, and feminist movement in the classic "Great Expectations."