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1) Vertigo
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San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson, forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia, is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife, who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide.
6) Ghost
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A man killed during a robbery gone wrong remains on Earth as a ghost because of his love for his girlfriend. He teams up with a psychic to uncover the truth behind his murder, and to rescue his sweetheart from a similar fate.
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Thirty-eight stories on love. In Yukio Mishima's Patriotism, an officer's wife joins her husband in a suicide, Eyes of Zapata by Sandra Cisnero is an unflattering portrait of the Mexican revolutionary by a girl peasant, and The Marquise of O by Heinrich von Kleist, is on pregnancy out of wedlock in the early 1800s.
Ranging from the Book of Ruth to the contemporary observations of today's finest fiction writers, this collection is destined to become...
10) Blue Calhoun
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Since the publication of his famous first novel, A Long and Happy Life, Price has been accorded the praise and admiration reserved for America's most distinguished writers. Now he has written the most searching, most passionate novel of his rich and varied career. Blue Calhoun, the narrator, looks back over his past, from the mid-1950s to the present.
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"Syrian poet Maram Al-Massri writes of love and the place of Arab women in the modern age. "I am this mix between the submissive and rebellious woman," she writes, "my freedom is so difficult and so desired." Her poems - presented here in a bilingual format - invoke the intoxicating power of seduction and the intensity of lust, the security of relationships and the muffled explosions of emotion."--Jacket.
16) The apartment
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An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
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"In 1984 philosopher Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much-acclaimed trilogy, The Nature of Love. In this new book, he maps the trajectory of his thinking on love." "It is a "partial" summing-up of a lifework: partial because it expresses the author's still unfolding views, and because love - like any subject of that magnitude - resists a neatly comprehensive, all-inclusive formulation. Adopting an informal,...
18) Glitter Baby
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Welcome to the world of the Glitter Baby. Fleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world-- to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was when her bewitching mother left home to find James Dean and met Errol Flynn instead. Now Fleur has to grow up quickly, and life won't make that easy. Jake Koranda...
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