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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
A reprint of the 1948 novel recounting the story of Cassandra Mortmain, a young woman living on the edge of poverty in a crumbling castle with her somewhat eccentric family, whose prospects begin to improve when new neighbors arrive from America.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Flavia de Luce, an eleven-year-old sleuth, sets aside her chemistry experiments to solve the mystery behind the death of an unfortunate puppeteer--who was electrocuted--and attempts to discover how his death is connected to a cold case that the local constables have been unable to solve.
4) Coral Glynn
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nursing an elderly cancer patient in an isolated English countryside manse in 1950, Coral interacts with a disgruntled housekeeper and her charge's sexually torn and war-ravaged son until a series of random events culminates in a complicated marriage.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of seven London residents in the week before Christmas in 2007, including a hedge fund manager in his attempt to further his career, a professional football player from Poland, a pothead schoolboy with an addiction to reality television, a Tube train driver, and others.
8) Little Bee
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Author
Series
Brown sisters volume 3
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong--so she's given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. It's time for Eve to grow up and prove herself even though she's not entirely sure how. Jacob Wayne is in control. Always. The bed and breakfast owner's on a mission to dominate...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love.
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton–wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton–is...
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia Naughton–wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton–is...
12) Warlight
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
13) Ghost wall
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spending time with her family at an Iron Age reenactment field site in northern England that requires participants to use prehistoric tools and knowledge to survive, Silvie begins to envision her own future before a spiritual ritual involving human sacrifice raises disturbing questions.
14) Peyton Place
Author
Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Pub. Date
[1999], c1956
Language
English
Description
Three young women come to terms with their identity as women and as sexual beings in a small New England town in the 1950s.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Museum curator Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, attempts to find the rare specimen--a giant squid--that disappeard from London's Natural History Museum, but his search uncovers a maze of warring cults, apostates, and assassins.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
17) Mr. Mac and me
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
1914. In the village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast young Thomas Maggs befriends mysterious Scotsman and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh whom the locals call Mac. Just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to bloom, war with Germany is declared and as the war weighs increasingly heavily on the community, the villagers on the home front become increasingly suspicious of Mac and his curious behavior.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In 1857, Jaffy Brown, an eight-year-old street urchin in London's East End, is saved from a tiger attack by Mr. Jamrach, the tiger's owner, who takes Jaffy under his wing and puts him to work caring for the animals in his exotic menagerie, and as the years progress, Jaffy's friendship with the other handler, Tim, leads to a grand adventure that will change both their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song--written by world-famous superstar Jonesy--but Jane hasn't had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents' house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she's seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight--the other Tom Hardy, an elegantly...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ten months after her mother's death, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother's, and as the narrator wanders the streets, she finds herself reflecting on her mother's life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England, the family home is now up for sale, its considerable contents already winnowed. The narrator, a writer, recalls all that...
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