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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A compelling portrait of the perfect English butler, who, at the end of his career in postwar England, reviews his life and secretly questions the "greatness" of the nobleman he served. This Booker Prize-winning novel is now a Merchant-Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
4) Ethan Frome
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The tragic story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 52
Description
In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world.
In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity.
Another practicing magician then emerges: the...
In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity.
Another practicing magician then emerges: the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Rachel sees the same couple breakfasting on their deck each morning as she passes by in her commuter train. She thinks their life looks perfect until, one day, she sees something shocking. The train moves on immediately, but she can't keep it to herself and informs the police. Has she done more harm than good?
9) Pride and prejudice and zombies: the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem!
Author
Series
Publisher
distributed by Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Description
A mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton--and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.
Author
Series
Gresham chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Description
When spring arrives in full, the town of Gresham reawakens to life. Soon more than one unlikely romance blooms among her villagers and readers will be delighted as even a bruised and timid heart is made to feel young and renewed. Devoted fans' love for the town of Gresham and its charming inhabitants has helped this series become a deeply cherished bestseller!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
A desolate moor, a diabolical dog in need of a muzzle and some inbred locals; Sherlock Holmes is really up against it. With the help of his trusty sidekick Dr. Watson, Holmes pieces together a mystery that has captured the imagination of readers across the decades. All whilst practising a serious coffee and cocaine habit. Pulp! The Classics is a new imprint that gives the nation's favourite classic novels original retro covers in a pulp fiction style...
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help.
Author
Series
Liberty Bell volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Daniel Bradford agrees to a seventeen year contract as an indentured servant in Virginia in order to get out of Dartmoor Prison. After cruel years of slavery he marries, meets George Washington and Sam Adams, and finds his sons are involved in the Sons of Liberty.
15) Here on earth
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Description
March Murray returns to her New England hometown with her teenage daughter, supposedly to attend the funeral of her old housekeeper, but in the back of her mind March knows she is headed for a reunion with Hollis, the boy she has loved since childhood.
16) The birthright
Author
Series
Song of Acadia volume 3
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
The Thread Binding Them Together As Sisters Is All Too Fragile...
The bittersweet reunion of the Robichaud family and the Harrows in the land of the Acadians has brought two mothers and two daughters full circle. They rekindle those early bonds and experience restoration of those lost years, but time and tragedy have left their indelible imprints on all who have endured the decades of separation and uncertainty. Moving forward with their lives now...
17) Falling angels
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1901 London, as the precise social order of the Victorian era winds down and the forward-looking Edwardian order takes wing, three strangers meet in the city's stony Highgate Cemetery. Beautiful Lavinia revels in the elaborate trappings of the past. Plain Maude strives to shape the future. Simon Fields, a boy their age, is bound by poverty and professional to the cemetery.As they explore the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, they bring...
18) The inheritance
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 7
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Cherished for her compelling stories and lush historical detail, bestselling author Mary Jo Putney brings the past to life in stories of love that arouse the mind and senses. Now, from the exotic temptations of the Orient to the ruthless grandeur of 19th century London, Putney embarks on a sweeping romantic adventure that begins with a daring act of courage.
After building a fortune amid the splendor and dangers of the China seas, American adventurer...
20) At risk
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Amanda, an eleven-year-old girl, contracts a disease. As her family and their friends and neighbors struggle to come to terms with the disease, ordinary people are transformed into heroes and heroines.
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