Garrett
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English
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Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.
Simone Garcia-Hampton is starting over at a new school, making real friends, making a name for herself as student director of Rent, and making a play for Miles. The last thing she wants is for word to get out that she's HIV-positive, because last time things got ugly. As Simone and Miles start going...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When Josie Wright wins a contest to write a celebrity profile for Deep Focus magazine, she's ready. Jetting off on a multi-city tour, rubbing elbows with celebrities, frenetic handlers, stone-faced producers, and eccentric stylists, her world is expanding rapidly. She even finds herself catching feelings for the subject of her profile, dazzling young newcomer Marius Canet. But when a young actress lets her in on a terrible secret, she's in over her...
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Lonesome Dove saga volume Second Prequel
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English
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Two Texas Rangers fight Indians and bandits while trying to sort affairs with their women. One is Gus McCrae, a hard-drinking womanizer jilted by his love, the other is sober Woodrow Call, father of a boy by a prostitute. By the author of Lonesome Dove.
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"Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Earnest, while Algernon has also posed as Earnest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend--the "rivals" to fight for Earnest's undivided attention and the "Earnests" to claim their beloveds--pandemonium breaks loose"--Page 4 of cover
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"Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. This new. stand-alone edition of Sophocles' searing tale of jealousy, rage, and revenge will continue the tradition of the University of Chicago Press's classic series."--Jacket.