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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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""Pride and Prejudice" is a 1813 romantic novel by seminal English author Jane Austen. The story revolves around Elizabeth Bennet, a 20-year-old English woman who, as she matures, must learn the difference between the superficial and the necessary. Elizabeth, her five sisters, and their father live on Longbourn estate, a large property that will not be inherited by any of his daughters when their father dies. Because of this, it is vital that at least...
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Series
Poldark family novels volume 3
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English
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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...
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English
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"A huge warm saga . . . A deeply satisfying story written with love and confidence." --Maeve Binchy in The New York Times Book Review. For the first time ever in trade paperback, Rosamunde Pilcher's beloved, #1 New York Times bestselling novela captivating story of life and love. An instant bestseller when it was first published, The Shell Seekers is an enduring classic which has touched the hearts of millions of readers worldwide. A novel of connection,...
8) After you
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Series
Me before you volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "Me Before You" continues the stories of Lou, her family, and the Traynors as they confront new challenges.
After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor. Louisa Clark is struggling without him. When an accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she cannot help but feel she is right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life.
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.
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Español
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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...
13) Indigo's star
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.
14) The country life
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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?
15) The Radleys
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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.
16) El lado oscuro
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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.
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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.
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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,...
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Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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"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...
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Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Dimple Pennington knows of her half siblings, but she doesn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about. She's thirty, and her life isn't really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple's life has shrunk to...
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