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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Samantha Parkington's world changes when Nellie O'Malley walks into her life. Nellie, her father, and two little sisters move in next door to be servants for the Ryland family. Though they come from completely different backgrounds, Samantha and Nellie become fast friends. The girls turn to each other in happiness and sorrow, adventure and danger, and grow to be as close as two sister could ever be. But life is full of surprises and nothing prepares...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption--like eating free-range chicken and heirloom tomatoes, wearing organic cotton shirts and TOMS shoes, and listening to the Serial podcast. They use their purchasing...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fortune favors the bold-but is a confirmed spinster daring enough to loosen the reins and accept a favor from the wicked gentleman who haunts her dreams? Lady Anne Deveril doesn't spook easily. A woman of lofty social standing known for her glacial beauty and starchy opinions, she's the unofficial leader of her small group of equestriennes. Since her mother's devastating plunge into mourning six years ago, Anne voluntarily renounced any fanciful...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is central to the story of the American Dream. It’s the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will eventually succeed. However, time and again we have seen how this foundational...
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, the injustice it creates, and the revolution that will destroy it"--
"A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, the injustice it creates, and the revolution that will destroy it. Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin. Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where...
346) The Good Luck Girls
Author
Series
Good luck girls volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls--they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a "welcome house" as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen. When Clementine accidentally kills a man, the girls risk a dangerous escape and harrowing journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge in a country that wants them to have none of those things. Pursued by Arketta's most vicious and powerful...
Author
Series
Court of Fives trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Now a Fives Challenger, Jes travels the countryside to compete against adversaries of similar skill levels, using the opportunity to search for her missing twin sister, Bettany, only to be thrown into the center of the war that Lord Kalliarkos--the boy she still loves--is fighting against their country's enemies"--
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1925. Momentous changes threaten the great house, its owners, and its servants, while past scandals continue to loom. Return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season to discover what will finally become of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world. Secrets and rifts threaten the unity of the family, while...
350) Titanic
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A timeless love story born of tragedy that created an international phenomenon. This epic masterpiece is destined to sweep audiences anew into the journey of a lifetime.
351) Epic fail
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In this modern take on "Pride and Prejudice," Elise Benton, who has just moved to California, is a junior at an exclusive prep school where, in spite of her initial bad impression, she finds herself attracted to the moody and handsome son of Hollywood's most famous celebrity couple.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
353) Burma sahib: a novel
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new novel exploring one of English literature’s most beloved and controversial figures—George Orwell—and the early years as an officer in colonial Burma that transformed him from Eric Blair, the British Raj policeman, into Orwell the anticolonial writer. At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the...
354) The notebook
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to check on him. Seeing that their reunion has rekindled a passionate romance, Allie must now...
355) Marlowe: a novel
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Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in award-winning author John Banville’s Marlowe―originally published as The Black-Eyed Blonde under the pen name Benjamin Black―the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective. "Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room." ―Stephen King "It was one of those Tuesday...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
This entertaining and assured debut novel about a utopian summer camp and its charismatic leader asks smart questions about good intentions gone terribly wrong.
"This novel about a utopian camp and its charismatic leader takes us into the lives of five unforgettable characters, and is a sweeping saga of idealism, love, class, and a piece of land that changes everyone who lives on it"--
Publisher
BBC; British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Sense & Sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters lear that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find...
358) Mansfield Park
Author
Publisher
Sweet Cherry
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Fanny's arrival at her wealthy relatives' estate creates a conflict of class and virtue.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war―the poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possible―not realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor,...
360) The Missus
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
La cautivadora continuación del best seller Mister, una apasionada historia de amor de E. L. James, autora del fenómeno mundial «Cincuenta sombras». «Alessia observa a su marido con los ojos entornados. "Tendrás que luchar por él". Las palabras pronunciadas por su madre en su llamada de esta mañana resuenan en su cabeza. Y eso va a hacer: luchar. Usando todas las armas a su alcance. Le ama. De eso está segura. Le desea. Y desea que él...
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