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1) Jane Eyre
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English
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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...
2) 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
...4) The waves
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Six children -- Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis -- meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The book follows them as they develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions and ambitions; their voices are interspersed with interludes from the timeless and unifying chorus of nature.
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Jeeves and Wooster volume 6
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English
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While pursuing the love of his life, American heiress Pauline Stoker, Lord 'Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves, the perfect gentleman's gentleman. But when Chuffy finds out that Jeeves's employer, Bertie Wooster, was once engaged to Pauline himself -- until the engagement was broken by her tough-egg father, abetted by loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop -- such fearsome complications ensue that even Jeeves has difficulty securing a happy...
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Lost Lords volume 4
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English
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Grey Sommers, Lord Wyndham, never met a predicament he couldn't charm his way out of. Then a tryst with a government official's wife during a bit of casual espionage in France condemns him to a decade in a dungeon, leaving him a shadow of his former self. Yet his greatest challenge may be the enigmatic spy sent to free his body -- the only woman who might heal his soul. Cassie Fox lost everything in the chaos of revolution, leaving only a determination...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Before the days of going toe-to-toe with the Avengers, a younger Loki is desperate to prove himself heroic and capable, while it seems everyone around him suspects him of inevitable villainy and depravity...except for Amora. When Loki and Amora cause the destruction of one of Asgard's most prized posseessions, Amaro is banished to earth, where her powers will slowly and excruciatingly fade to nothing. When Asgardian magic is detected in relation...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's relationships.
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Corduroy mansions volume 2
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
312 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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This was the mission upon which Freddie de la Hay now embarked. Wearing his new collar, in which a small transmitter had been expertly concealed, the obliging and urbane Pimlico terrier was put on a lead and taken downstairs . . . Freddie's new career had begun. He was now officially in the service of his country.
10) The years
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English
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As the Pargiters, a middle-class English family, move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the `present day' of the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, the social strictures of patriarchy, capitalism and Empire, and the rise of Fascism. Engaging with a painful struggle between utopian hopefulness and crippled with despair, the novel is a savage indictment of Virginia Woolf's society, but its bitter sadness...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
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193 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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While driving through Archway in the course of his job as a medical rep, Chris is captivated by a young woman on a street corner. Clumsily, he engages her in conversation, and he secures an invitation to return one day for a coffee. His visits become more frequent and Roza starts to tell him the story of her life, drawing him increasingly into her world -- from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito's Partisans through her journey to England and...
12) Peculiar London
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Series
Bryant and May volume 18.5
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Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 474 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Why does [the] rainy, cold, gray city [of London] capture so many imaginations? Could its very unreliability hold the key to its longevity? The detectives are joined by their boss Raymond Land and some of their most disreputable friends, each an argumentative and unreliable expert in their own dodgy field. Each character gives us a short tour of odd buildings, odder characters, lost venues, forgotten disasters, confusing routes, dubious gossip, illicit...
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Corduroy mansions volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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It's back to Corduroy Mansions -- the slightly dilapidated but well-lived-in mansion block in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood. There's never a dull moment for the residents of Corduroy Mansions: Berthea Snark is still at work on her scathing biography of the only loathsome Liberal Democrat member of Parliament -- her own son, Oedipus; literary agents Rupert Porter and Barbara Ragg are still battling each other for first crack at the manuscript...
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Corduroy mansions volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
353 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in London’s vibrant Pimlico neighborhood and the home turf of a captivating collection of quirky and altogether McCall-Smithian characters. There’s the middle-aged wine merchant William, who’s trying to convince his reluctant twenty-four-year-old son, Eddie, to leave the nest; and Marcia, the boutique caterer who has her sights set on William. There’s...
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Jeeves volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"What ho! A new Jeeves and Wooster novel, penned in homage to P.G. Wodehouse by bestselling author Ben Schott-in which literature's favorite gentleman and his gentleman's personal gentleman become spies in service to the Crown. The misadventures of P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and his incomparable valet, Jeeves, have delighted audiences for nearly a century. Now, bestselling author Ben Schott brings this odd couple back to life in a madcap new...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric or a forgotten jacket. Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, made strange by the darkness; a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point and a new life are made so easily and...
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