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1) Bleak House
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Series
Language
English
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Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, originally published in 1853, is a timeless classic that follows the story of a cast of characters navigating the complexities of the legal system in London during the Industrial Revolution. Through the characters’ eyes, Dickens paints a vivid picture of a city in turmoil and a legal system in chaos. The novel is an exploration of social class and justice, and is widely considered one of Dickens’ best works. Its...
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English
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Upon learning that she is an earl's illegitimate daughter, 1920s governess Rachel Woodley teams up with an associate who helps her infiltrate key social circles in order to contact her father and undermine her privileged half-sister's world.
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where...
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Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 21
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English
Description
" A new addition to the New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington series. After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he's looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. But Arrington has other plans for Stone...including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago"--
5) Unspoken
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Having left her hometown years before with her world shattered and her illegitimate baby dead, Shelby Cole decides to return home when she begins to receive anonymous letters that claim that her daughter is alive.
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Ravenspire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
In this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, follows the adventures of Ari, an illegitimate princess who in an effort to escape her twin brother's fate, trains to be a fighter so that she can defeat an evil wish granter.
7) River rising
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Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 4
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Description
Taking a job as nurse to the local town doctor, newcomer April Asbury attracts the attention of Joe Jones, whose family is disrupted by an unstable widow's claims about the paternity of Joe's youngest sister.
Author
Series
Fortress series volume 5
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The newly crowned Cefwyn's efforts to rebuild his kingdom are challenged by a sinister force that threatens the land's precarious peace through Cefwyn's own son.
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Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate and beloved daughter of a powerful late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is declared a saint and finds her family and faith tested by the impending Mexican civil war. By the author of The Devil's Highway.
When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is...
10) Family of lies
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Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"After growing up poor in Texas, Vera Lomax used every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich husband. Now living in the lap of luxury in San Francisco, her only job is to fawn over her much-older husband, so it's been easy for her to balance a life of shopping and affairs with younger men with a major secret: the sixteen-year bribery of one of her husband's mistresses to keep her pregnancy under wraps. Vera figures that a little hush money...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena’s son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Audrey Malte is illegitimate, though her beloved father--tailor to King Henry VIII--prefers to call her 'merry-begot,' saying there was much joy in her making. Then Audrey visits the royal court with her father, and the whispers start about Audrey's distinctive Tudor-red hair and the kindness that the king shows her. Did dashing Henry perhaps ask Malte to raise a royal love child?"--Page 4 of cover.
14) Philomena
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 1952, a young Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea in Ireland after giving birth to her first child. When her son became a toddler, the nuns sent him to America for adoption. Philomena then spent the next fifty years seeking for him in vain.
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