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1) Jane Eyre
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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally...
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Five years after working with Ali and Mahmoud Hazr in Palestine, Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell are shocked when they meet the brothers again in England. Instead of Arabs, their friends are really British aristocrats, Alistair and Marsh Hughenfort. The brothers need help finding the heir to their family estate, the stunningly beautiful Justice Hall. This is a search that will eventually take Holmes and Russell thousands of miles from home.
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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The MacBrides lead a cozy life of upper class privilege: good looks (more or less), a beautiful home, tuition-free education at the prestigious private school where Rowan is headmaster, an altruistic righteousness inherited from magistrate Lydia. But when Rowan and his three grown children gather for the first time since Lydia's passing at the family's weekend home -- a restored barn in the English countryside -- years of secrets surface, and they...
4) Jane Eyre
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English
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Jane Eyre is raised in her aunt's house after the death of her parents. Her aunt cannot stand the queer, quiet child and sends her off to a spartan boarding school where she is severely mistreated. She survives, however, and eventually finds herself a situation as a governess in the household of Edward Rochester. She and Rochester fall passionately in love, in one of the great literary love stories. But a dark secret in his house will tear them
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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viii, 294 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter: as a partner in a now-thriving detective agency, he's a natural choice to investigate. Just when he's tempted to turn his focus to it entirely, however, his grieving brother asks him to come down to Sussex, and Lenox leaves the metropolis behind for the quieter country life of his boyhood. Or so he thinks....
6) Gótico
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. bajo el sello editorial Minotauro M.R
Pub. Date
2021.
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349 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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"Tras recibir una extrana carta de su prima recien casada, Noemi Taboada se dirige a High Place, una casa en el campo en Mexico, sin saber que encontrara alli. Noemi no parece tender dotes de salvadora: es glamurosa, mas acostumbrada a asistir a cocteles que a las tareas de detective. Pero tambien es fuerte, inteligente, y no tiene miedo: ni del nueve marido de su prima, un ingles amenazante y seductor; ni de su padre, el antiguo patriacra que parece...
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