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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by...
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English
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East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England's brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha's husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won't come to anything. And Agatha has more...
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Easily distracted philosopher Martin Clay is drawn into an increasingly tangled web of deceit when he is invited to the home of the boorish local landowner and discovers there what he believes to be one of the world's lost art treasures.
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Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
[1998], c1997
Physical Desc
349 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Once it had been the great forest of Lythe -- a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest has been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family...
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Suma des Letras/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
622 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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"El verano de 1914 es uno de los m�as bellos que se recuerdan en la id�ilica ciudad inglesa de Rye. All�i acaba de llegar Beatrice Nash con un gran ba�ul de libros, ansia de independencia y nuevas ideas que pocos en Rye asocian a una profesora de lat�in. En un descanso de sus estudios de medicina, Hugh Grange se encuentra tambi�en en la ciudad visitando a su t�ia Agatha, una verdadera instituci�on local que se ha jugado su cuidadosamente...
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