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Émile Zola was one of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement. In 1871 Zola began to write his most notable series of novels, the "Rougon-Macquart Novels", that relate the history of a fictional family under the Second Empire. As a strict naturalist, Zola was greatly concerned with science, especially the problems of evolution and heredity vs. environment. However,...
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Starri Knight is a big believer in fate. When she pulls Rusty O'Sullivan out of a wrecked car on the very same road where her parents died twenty years earlier, she feels a compelling connection to the stranger. She works at convincing Rusty he has something to live for. When lawyer Jackson Landry turns up with an inheritance from the father Rusty never knew, it holds a promise of the family he'd never had. As a the hard-bitten loner heads to Honey...
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Biblioasis
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2023.
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English
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"All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet the only ones who truly see. From Les Grands Moulins to a Sephora on the Champs-Élysées, Ferdinand, Ossiri, and Kassoum find their way as undocumented workers amidst political infighting and the ever-changing landscape of immigration policy. Fast-paced and funny, poignant and sharply satirical, Standing Heavy is a searing deconstruction...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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[1991]
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English
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The body of Oscar Donadieu, a heroic figure in the small town of La Rochelle, is found floating in the harbor that is home port to the ships that contribute to the vast Donadieu family fortunes. As his family tries to function without their patriarch, extraordinary entanglements emerge. Into this web of festering relationships comes Phillipe Dargens, an ambitious young man who hopes to marry into the family. Suspicions of murder abound, as assorted...
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Oxford University Press
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2016.
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English
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"Chronicles the devastating fall of the Fouan family, describing the harsh conditions of the agricultural seasons against the human cycles of birth, marriage, and death."--
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Penguin Books
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2003.
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English
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"Gervaise Macquart struggles to provide for her two children and hopes that the marriage to Monsieur Coupeau will finally allow her to have a decent life; however, her husband's drinking and an unexpected visit from her past causes her life to unravel."--
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This novel-within-a-novel depicts the writer Édouard attempting to finish a novel also titled The counterfeiters. Meanwhile a tangled series of relationships emerge amoung his nephew and his schoolmates including homoerotic attractions, a ring of counterfeiters, and the suicide of one young man during a school hazing.
