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Poldark family novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life in this third novel of the Poldark series. Reeling from the tragic death of a loved one, Captain Poldark vents his grief by inciting impoverished locals to salvage the contents of a ship run aground in a storm-an act for which British law proscribes death by hanging. Ross is brought to trial for his involvement, and despite their stormy marriage, Demelza tries to rally support for her husband, to save...
Author
Series
Tea rose trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1914, with World War I approaching, polar explorer Seamus Finnegan tries to forget Willa, a passionate mountain climber, as he marries a beautiful young woman back home in England.
Author
Series
Casson family volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Spurred on by his youngest sister, Rose, twelve-year-old Indigo sticks up for himself and an American boy who has replaced him as the primary target of the school bullies.
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Language
Español
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Formats
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Presentamos 'Orgullo y Prejuicio (Versión Íntegra)', una experiencia auditiva que te llevará en un viaje inolvidable a través de los salones de baile, los conflictos y los romances de la aristocracia inglesa del siglo XIX. Este audiolibro es mucho más que una simple reproducción de la obra maestra de Austen; es un ticket dorado para vivir la historia como nunca antes.
La calidad de audio excepcional y la narración nítida y clara hacen...
La calidad de audio excepcional y la narración nítida y clara hacen...
10) The Radleys
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Struggling with overwork and parenting angst, English village doctor Peter Radley endeavors to hide his family's vampire nature until their daughter's oddly satisfying act of violence reveals the truth, an event that is complicated by the arrival of a practicing vampire family member.
11) El lado oscuro
Author
Publisher
Gran Travesía
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"Nathan es Blanco y Negro. Su madre era una Bruja Blanca. Su padre, el Brujo Negro más temido de todos los tiempos"--Page 2 of cover.
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
Author
Series
Winshaw legacy volume 1
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A social satire on Britain today. The narrator is a writer hired to do the biography of a prominent upper-class family. In the process, he finds the family represents everything that is wrong with the country, from Hilary, the yellow journalist, to Thomas, the inside trader, to Henry, the hypocritical medicare reformer, and so up and down the family tree.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"New Year's Eve, Dorset, England, 1946. Candles flicker, a gramophone scratches out a tune as guests dance and sip champagne-- for one night Hartgrove Hall relives better days. Harry Fox-Talbot and his brothers have returned from World War II determined to save their once grand home from ruin. But the arrival of beautiful Jewish wartime singer Edie Rose tangles the threads of love and duty, and leads to a devastating betrayal. Fifty years later,...
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Description
"England, 31 August 1939: The world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate, which has been opened up to evacuees by Thomas and Elizabeth Ashton, an enigmatic, childless couple. Soon Anna gets drawn into their unraveling relationship, seeing...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love." —New York Times Book Review "When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level." —TIME Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable...
Author
Publisher
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
NOW COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can read all five novels in one volume: Never Mind, Bad News, Mother's Milk, Some Hope, and At Last. By turns harrowing...
17) Dombey and Son
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 167
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A rich and pompous merchant is plagued by loneliness and misfortune
To Paul Dombey, business is everything and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially... A depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, this title explores the devastating effects of emotional deprivation on a dysfunctional family and on society as a whole.
Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Annotation. Dickens...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
“The very first thing I remember is standing on the water-butt in the garden, with my Mum holding me to stop me falling, singing 'I'm On Top of the World' , and the smell of the new wood in the hot sun. And something do with Mum's silver necklace. Amy doesn't remember any of that. Her very first memory is our wolfhound Ivan knocking her over in a puddle. Or it might be eating a boiled egg, and looking at the daisies on her kitchen tablecloth.”...
19) The country life
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Stella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair girl, and arrives in a tiny Sussex village. What could possibly have driven her to leave her home, job, and life in London for such a rural life? Why has she severed all contact with her parents?
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Darcy and Dr. Maddox go in search of Darcy's missing half-brother and land in a medieval prison cell. When Elizabeth Darcy receives a coded letter detailing this predicament, she rushes off to save her husband. Much to his dismay, Charles Bingley is left to hold the fort at Pemberley, and in the meantime, Lady Catherine de Bourgh kicks up a truly shocking scandal.
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