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Author
Language
English
Description
During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Hired to care for a small Irish village girl said to have miraculously survived on nothing but "manna from heaven" for months, a journalist and nurse veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign quickly finds herself fighting to save the child's life.
7) Jane Eyre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young English woman who accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
Author
Series
The Clifton chronicles volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A first installment of a planned five-part series introduces the character of 1920s Bristol dock worker Harry Clifton, whose unexpected scholarship leads him to pursue a very different life while uncovering the truth about his father's identity.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
391 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mariah Aubrey lives in an abandoned gatehouse on a distant relative's estate, where she supports herself and her servant by writing novels in secret, and when Captain Matthew Bryant leases the estate, she is attracted to him.
13) Steadfast heart
Author
Series
Brides of Seattle volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1880s Seattle, Washington, Lenore Fulcher desires love while so many around her are finding it; when lawyer Kolbein Booth arrives searching for his sister, he and Lenore face danger and uncertainty amidst their growing attraction.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed. in the United States of America.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), 1 col. map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the family life, leisure activities, festivals and religion, foods, geography, history, and industry of Mexico.
15) Olivia Twist
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at birth and living as a boy, Olivia Brownlow finds herself living as a debutante in high society after a caper goes wrong and encounters Jack MacCarron, a boy once known as the Artful Dodger.
16) Emma
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Occasionally thoughtless, always headstrong, and constantly meddling in the affairs of her friends, Emma is a character for the ages. Hers is a story that has seamlessly translated to contemporary life. Sparkling with rare literary energy, Emma is a comedy of manners, depicting the self-contained world of 19th-century English life.
17) Jordan
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Jordan. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Mrs. Lincoln volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase,...
19) Button Man
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s.