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  Oberland

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  "The latest volume of Miss Richardson's series of novels describes Miriam's Swiss experiences. After a journey across France she feels that first sharp sense of Switzerland which few can miss, and soon she finds herself caught into the social life of a world which is described with remarkable insight. Dorothy Richardson knows the summons of unknown peaks and the enchanted promise of mountain heights. She can depict with equal success the keen young Englishman collecting members for the Ski Club, or the Italian business man on holiday from Milan. Her art brings the whole delight of Switzerland before the eyes"--From dust jacket.

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  The widow Barnaby

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  Martha Compton, a poor but attractive young woman, marries Mr. Barnaby, the surgeon and apothecary of Silverton. He is older, and soon Mrs Barnaby is a widow, independently wealthy. In youth she dresses extravagantly, even in mourning. As she enters middle age, she determines to find another husband. Two misadventures land her in debtor's prison, from which she is rescued. At last she marries Mr. O'Donagough, but is again widowed, and finally finds Major Allen, who matches her in duplicity. Going foreward, she opined, "The tender passion had ever been secondary in her heart to a passion for wealth and finery." She is determined to take good care of herself and make a good bargain in remarriage.

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  Sex & rage : advice to young ladies eager for a good time

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  A rediscovered classic: Eve Babitz's wry, tender coming-of-age tale of 1970s LA. It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven - child of sun and surf - is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floating on a cloud of drink, drugs and men, she finds herself adrift, before her talent for writing, and a determined literary agent, set her on a course for New York and a new life. Sex & Rage is a recently rediscovered classic from author Eve Babitz, herself a muse to many an artist, writer and musician in the 1970s. A semi-autobiographical novel, it charts the highs and lows of a life lived at the limits, and transports the reader to a sunnier, dreamier, more reckless time and place.

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  Mapp & Lucia : a novel

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  Diary of Martha Spence Heywood [microform] : 1850-1856

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  Microfilm of a typescript of Martha Spence Heywood's diary, kept from 1850-1856. It begins when Martha was living in Kanesville, Iowa, after joining the Mormon Church and while waiting to travel westward. She gives a brief account of her baptism in Canada and sojourns with various Mormon families in New York State. She also recounts her travels to St. Louis in 1849 and teaching school in Springville. Martha departed with the Joseph Heywood company for Utah in 1850 and gives a detailed account of the company's journey across the plains. The majority of the diary recounts in detail Martha's life in Nephi, Utah, from 1850-1856. She writes personal and insightful insights on polygamy (shortly after her marriage to Heywood she wrote "Tis rather trying to a woman's feelings not to be acknowledged by the man she has given herself to and desires to love with all her heart"), the birth and raising of her children, her illnesses from childbirth, the death of her daughter Serepta Maria from measles in 1856, her loneliness in Nephi (she wrote that she "could not bear" to be left alone by her husband and taught school in 1854 since it was "of much benefit to me as the activity ... and its responsibility prevented lonesomeness that otherwise would have been disagreeable"), and politics within the Mormon settlement at Nephi. She also writes of Indian troubles, including Mormons killed by Indians in 1853, and of the discovery of two bodies dressed in United States livery who were shot to death in November 1852. Martha also writes frequently of her acquaintances in Nephi, visits by Brigham Young, and a variety of other domestic concerns.

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  Millroy the Magician

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