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Life in the Aftermath of a Narcissist : Romance Stew

By: Ms. Becky (Ruff) Reed
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Romance Stew : The Way to a Woman's Heart

By: Esq. Becky (Ruff) Reed
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Selected Poems of Robert Frost

By: Robert Frost

...oets. This selection of his poems is a short walk through the variety of his simplistic natural themes and complex social understandings. (Summary by Becky Miller, Canal Winchester, Ohio)...

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Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot

... who becomes fascinated with Jewish traditions when he meets an ailing Jewish philosopher named Mordecai and his sensitive sister, Mirah. (Summary by Becky Miller)...

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Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, The

By: Robert W. Service

...illiance that frontiers evoke and the ever pioneering spirit of man. Alternately titled Songs of a Sourdough in the United Kingdoms. (Introduction by Becky)...

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Romeo and Juliet

By: William Shakespeare

...ssion, and their secret meeting later that night on her bedroom balcony begins a series of tragic events that no one could have foretold. (Summary by Becky Crackel)...

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Boy's Will, A

By: Robert Frost

...complexities of the human condition, its frailties and strengths, and its temporal state, like that of his beloved New England landscape. (Summary by Becky Miller)...

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The Palimpsest Review

By: Anonymous

....... 40 Andraleen Zelonis ? Hazleton ?Let?s Play? ......................... 42 Kevin Cope ? Hazleton ?House Guest? ............................... 43 Becky Liscusky ? Hazleton ?I Like Dogs and Frogs? ......... 44 Becky Liscusky ? Hazleton ?You know the pan?s hot ?? . 45 Amber Shinskie ? Hazleton ?Scent of a Cherry Cigar? ...... 46...

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Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Emily Dickinson

... works, expressing her frustrations with the behavioral confines of her times, and the confines of being human and unknowing of eternity. (Summary by Becky Miller)...

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Selected Lullabies of Eugene Field

By: Eugene Field

...om the fact that his lullabies have taken a high and what seems to be a permanent place in the world's classic literature of childhood. (Excerpted by Becky Miller from the Introduction by Edwin Osgood Grover to “Cradle Lullabies” by Eugene Field, published in 1909)...

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Woman and the New Race

By: Margaret Sanger

... Eugenics movement, and her book provides fascinating insight to a mostly-forgotten turbulent battle recently fought in American history. (Summary by Becky)...

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Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

...s place in society marks the level of civilization, and dedicates this book to “Susan B. Anthony, my steadfast friend for half a century. (Summary by Becky Miller)...

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Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The

By: Mark Twain

...Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. One of the most famous incidents in the book describes how Tom persuades his friends to do a bori...

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Tom Sawyer, De Lotgevallen van

By: Mark Twain

... Amerikaanse jeugd in de negentiende eeuw. Hij leeft in het fictieve St Petersburg, samen met zijn tante Polly, zijn halfbroer Syd, zijn grote liefde Becky Thatcher en zijn vriend Huckleberry Finn. Dit is de eerste roman ooit, die op een typemachine werd geschreven....

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Mr. Wicker's Window Version 2

By: Carley Dawson

...wledge of magic. But before Chris succeeded in quest, he would know of all these things and more. And of Mr. Wicker's friends, the sailor Ned Cilley, Becky Boozer, and the African boy Amos, changed from wood to flesh. And Christopher Mason would never be same, after. (Introduction by Arthur Piantadosi)...

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Conjure Woman, The

By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt

...s, presents a remarkably different view of Southern life. His accounts include Aun' Peggy's conjure spells in Mars Jeems's Nightmare, Po' Sandy, Sis' Becky's Pickaninny, and Hot Foot Hannibal as well as those of free black conjure men in The Conjurer's Revenge and The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt. These conjure tales reveal moments of active black resistance to white oppression in ad...

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An American Papyrus

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... in thy survivalistic polar bear image. Becky's Demon "Something happened. i don't have those visions anymore."...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...ancholy out of song—and when- ever I could, I skipped it and went off with Becky. No matter how icy, there was fun, hands linked, our runny noses bea... ...No matter how icy, there was fun, hands linked, our runny noses beatific: Becky, whose giggle alerted every boy, was my girl whenever we could steal... ...let me. It’s my turn. He’s tiny. He’s for me.” “Go slowly.” A few times Becky and I rang the church bells for the sexton; together, we stole buns ...

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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

... Monday morning.” ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Early readers: Jan Pettersen, Becky Mason, Elaine Bremner, Barb Snarby and Anne MacFarlane. Your fai...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...I In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader AFTER BECKY’S APPEARANCE at my Lord Steyne’s private and select parties, the clai... ...en to heart amongst the Tyburnians, the Belgravians—her story, and perhaps Becky’s too. Ah, ladies!—ask the Reverend Mr. Thurifer if Belgravia is not ... ...ll of the vain thing and be thankful therefor. And let us make the best of Becky’s aristocratic pleasures likewise—for these too, like all other morta... ...sent, paternally superintending the progress of his pupil. At Levant House Becky met one of the finest gentlemen and greatest ministers that Europe ha... ...s are transcribed by my pen, and I think in what brilliant company my dear Becky is mov- ing. She became a constant guest at the French Embassy, where... ...ond of ecarte, and made many parties with the Colo- nel of evenings, while Becky was singing to Lord Steyne in the other room; and as for Truffigny, i... ...-place, the worthy young gentleman must have starved. I doubt, I say, that Becky would have selected either of these young men as a person on whom she... ...lked English with adorable simplic- ity , and to the constant amusement of Becky and my Lord Steyne, she would mimic one or other to his face, and com... ... sardonic old patron. Truffigny gave Briggs a shawl by way of winning over Becky’s confi- dante, and asked her to take charge of a letter which the si...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

...inner?” “I’ll stay if you will.” “Good — that’s a whack. What’s your name?” “Becky Thatcher. What’s yours? Oh, I know. It’s Thomas Sawyer.” “That’s th... ...tributed his bit of variety to it. When school broke up at noon, Tom flew to Becky Thatcher, and whispered in her ear: “Put on your bonnet and let on ... ...o themselves. Then they sat together, with a slate before them, and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created ano... ... And they get slathers of money — most a dollar a day, Ben Rogers says. Say, Becky, was you ever en gaged?” “What’s that?” “Why, engaged to be marrie... ...me other time.” “No, now.” “No, not now — to morrow.” “Oh, no, now. Please, Becky — I’ll whisper it, I’ll whisper it ever so easy.” Becky hesitating,... ... will you, Tom? Now you won’t, will you?” “No, indeed, indeed I won’t. Now, Becky.” He turned his face away. She bent timidly around till her breath ... ...e white apron to her face. Tom clasped her about her neck and pleaded: “Now, Becky, it’s all done — all over but the kiss. Don’t you be afraid of that... ...ut the kiss. Don’t you be afraid of that — it ain’t anything at all. Please, Becky.” And he tugged at her apron and the hands. By and by she gave up, ... ...came up and submitted. Tom kissed the red lips and said: “Now it’s all done, Becky. And always after this, you know, you ain’t ever to love anybody bu...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...en satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced to be un- commonly flexible in the joints,... ...whom is this, Miss Jemima?” said Miss Pinkerton, with awful coldness. “For Becky Sharp,” answered Jemima, trembling very much, and blushing over her w... ...ver her withered face and neck, as she turned her back on her sister. “For Becky Sharp: she’s going too.” “Miss Jemima!” exclaimed Miss Pinkerton, in... ...a liberty in future.” “Well, sister, it’s only two-and-ninepence, and poor Becky will be miserable if she don’t get one.” “Send Miss Sedley instantly ... ...as at liberty to depart. “Y ou’ll go in and say good-by to Miss Pinkerton, Becky!” said Miss Jemima to a young lady of whom nobody took any notice, an... ...d scowl- ing the while over the girl’s shoulder at Miss Sharp. “Come away, Becky,” said Miss Jemima, pulling the young woman away in great alarm, and ... ...ear,” said she to Amelia. “Y ou 11 Thackeray may be hungry, you know; and Becky, Becky Sharp, here’s a book for you that my sister—that is, I —Johnso... ... herself which the little mimic, Rebecca, managed to make out of her doll. Becky used to go through dialogues with it; it formed the delight of Newman... ... came forward and seized my candle. “No candles after eleven o’clock, Miss Becky,” said he. “Go to bed in the dark, you pretty little hussy” (that is ...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...Tufto, who asked “who the fat officer was in the gold-laced cap?” on which Becky replied, “that he was an officer in the East Indian service.” But Raw... ...le talk of her worldly rival. Even the O’Dowd was silent and subdued after Becky’s brilliant apparition, and scarcely said a word more about Glenmalon... ..., very soon found his way back when Rebecca was by her dear friend’s side. Becky was just lecturing Mrs. 36 V anity Fair – V olume Two Osborne upon t... ...as opened, and the troops were to march, Rawdon’s gravity became such that Becky rallied him about it in a manner which rather hurt the feelings of th... ...rather hurt the feelings of the Guardsman. “Y ou don’t suppose I’m afraid, Becky, I should think,” he said, with a tremor in his voice. “But I’m a pre... ...-pan, and a service of plate. But we must make the best of what we’ve got, Becky, you know.” And so, making his last dispositions, Captain Crawley, wh... ... he been cajoled and befooled by women? “If the worst comes to the worst,” Becky thought, “my retreat is secure; and I have a right-hand seat in the b... ...er took a farewell of Mrs. Crawley, whose company she by no means courted. Becky watched her marching off, with a smile on her lip. She had the keenes... ...bargains with ladies’ maids. This curt reply brought the Earl in person to Becky’s apart- ment; but he could get no more success than the first ambas-...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...en satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced to be un- commonly flexible in the joints,... ...whom is this, Miss Jemima?” said Miss Pinkerton, with awful coldness. “For Becky Sharp,” answered Jemima, trembling very much, and blushing over her w... ...ver her withered face and neck, as she turned her back on her sister. “For Becky Sharp: she’s going too.” “Miss Jemima!” exclaimed Miss Pinkerton, in... ...a liberty in future.” “Well, sister, it’s only two-and-ninepence, and poor Becky will be miserable if she don’t get one.” “Send Miss Sedley instantly ... ...as at liberty to depart. “Y ou’ll go in and say good-by to Miss Pinkerton, Becky!” said Miss Jemima to a young lady of whom nobody took any notice, an... ...d scowl- ing the while over the girl’s shoulder at Miss Sharp. “Come away, Becky,” said Miss Jemima, pulling the young woman away in great alarm, and ... ...ear,” said she to Amelia. “Y ou 11 Thackeray may be hungry, you know; and Becky, Becky Sharp, here’s a book for you that my sister—that is, I —Johnso... ... herself which the little mimic, Rebecca, managed to make out of her doll. Becky used to go through dialogues with it; it formed the delight of Newman... ... came forward and seized my candle. “No candles after eleven o’clock, Miss Becky,” said he. “Go to bed in the dark, you pretty little hussy” (that is ...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...ed nightcap. ‘What’s the matter now?’ said David, looking up. ‘How old was Becky Morgan?’ asked the sexton. ‘Becky Morgan?’ repeated David. ‘Yes, ’ re... ...ose—and scraping off, in the process, the essence of Heaven knows how many Becky Morgans—set himself to consider the subject. ‘Let me think’ quoth he.... ...d Curiosity Shop – Dickens 418 called him by his name. It was plain that Becky Morgan’s age still troubled him; though why, the child could scarcely... ...soled and comforted by the little fiction they had agreed upon, respecting Becky Morgan, whose decease was no longer a precedent of uncomfortable appl...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...ish act is now seen to have been indicative of what was to come. Like Aunt Becky and Mrs. Clemens, they can now see that Mark was hardly appreciated w...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...at Miss Lucy Bertram frae that moment, for mony a time she cried to me, ‘O Becky, O Becky, if that useless peenging thing o’ a lassie there, at Ellang...

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Liver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

...ed Sikes. ‘I’m your man, as far as I go,’ replied the other. ‘Is all paid, Becky?’ ‘Yes, the other gentleman’s paid,’ replied the girl. ‘I say!’ said ...

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The Best of Four

By: Paul Surdi

...s through their toys. The separation of girls and boys with toys begins an Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Becky Reviello ...

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