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Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Mansfield Park is a study of three families--the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices--with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose...
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English
Description
On the heels of the success of A Christmas Journey comes this festive mystery. The joyful tranquility of a snowbound estate in the Lake District of England is overturned in a moment by a shocking murder. Renowned mathematician and inventor Henry Rathbone-long known to readers of Perry's bestselling Victorian series featuring William Monk-must put his analytical and creative capacities to the test as he assumes the role of an amateur investigator....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
New York Times–bestselling author Amanda Quick returns with a thrilling new venture into romance and mystery, featuring the most unusual, highly compatible—undeniably combustible—pairing of Tobias March and his mesmerizing partner, Lavinia Lake.
An invitation to a country house party at Beaumont Castle provides a perfect solution to Tobias and Lavinia’s most exasperating challenge: how to escape the chaos...
An invitation to a country house party at Beaumont Castle provides a perfect solution to Tobias and Lavinia’s most exasperating challenge: how to escape the chaos...
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English
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Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bides in unsuspected places and the line between good and evil can be razor thin. This new novel features Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould-one of the most memorable characters from the Thomas Pitt series-who appears...
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Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She's made a mistake so huge, it'll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she's mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they've hired a lawyer--and Samantha...
7) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. At Mr Rochester's house, where she goes to work as a governess, she hopes she might have found them.
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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]...
9) Jane Eyre
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Language
Español
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"Una de las grandes novelas de todos los tiempos. La obra maestra de la literatura victoriana. Jane Eyre es una novela clásica de amor, precursora
del feminismo y la psicología moderna, sobre una huérfana que enfrenta su destino mani - festo gracias a su inteligencia e integridad inquebrantables. Controvertida y revolucionaria en el momento de su publicación, Jane Eyre es, al mismo tiempo, una crítica punzante a una sociedad rancia y un himno...
10) Howards End
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Language
English
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To illuminate the changing times, Forster throws together three vastly dissimilar classes of people: the Schlegels, Helen and Margaret, educated, compassionate and independently wealthy; the Wilcoxes, nouveau riche Empire builders; and Leonard Bast, an ambitious but struggling bank clerk. When impetuous Helen Schlegel believes herself to be in love with Paul, the youngest of the Wilcox sons, she sparks off a connection between the two families that...
11) Mr. Rochester
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Language
English
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Description
On his eighth birthday, Edward Rochester is banished from his beloved Thornfield Hall to learn his place in life. His journey eventually takes him to Jamaica where, as a young man, he becomes entangled with an enticing heiress and makes a choice that will haunt him. It is only when he finally returns home and encounters one stubborn, plain, young governess, that Edward can see any chance of redemption - and love.
12) Meridon
Author
Series
Wideacre trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
439 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
14) Justice Hall
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
331 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
15) Snobs: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
265 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Preparing to marry heir Charles Broughton, attractive accountant's daughter Edith Lavery makes humorous and astute observations about contemporary England's class system.
Author
Series
Wideacre trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Touchstone ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 614 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity volume 8
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
199 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
ix, 533 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Room with a view. Miss Lucy Honeychurch is an upper class young English woman whose inherent passion for life is stifled until a trip to Italy where she tastes impetuousness and begins to take her life into her own hands -- Howards End. A country house serves as the setting for a fateful confrontation among three vastly different kinds of people: the Wilcoxes, staunch believers in tradition and property rights-- and little else ; the Schlegel sisters,...
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