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1) Jane Eyre
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"In early nineteenth-century England, poor and plain, Jane Eyre begins life as a lonely orphan in the household of her hateful aunt. Despite the oppression she endures at home, and then later at a harsh boarding school, Jane manages to emerge with her spirit and integrity unbroken. She becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she finds herself falling in love with her employer, the dark, impassioned Mr. Rochester. But an explosive secret tears...
2) Little women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
3) Emma
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"Virginia Woolf called Jane Austen "the most perfect artist among women, " and Emma Woodhouse is arguably her most perfect creation. Though Austen found her heroine to be a person whom "no one but myself will much like." 'Emma' is her most cleverly woven, riotously comedic, and pleasing novel of manners."--Provided by Publisher.
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Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the...
9) Cambridge
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
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Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider.
10) Little & Lion
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--
Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her stepbrother Lionel fall in love with the same girl. As Lionel's bipolar...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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"Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible"--
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2014.
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The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
"An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in New York from 1911-1925"--
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti--the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in the Iranian town of Kermanshah in the early twentieth century--cannot have the one thing he desires above all: a son. His young wife Rakhel, trapped in an oppressive marriage at a time when a woman's worth is measured by her fertility, is made desperate by her failure to conceive, and grows jealous and vindictive.
14) Agatha
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1978
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Agatha Christie disappears in the midst of marital problems. She is found in a hotel registered under the name of her husband's mistress and cannot remember anything.
15) Zorrie: a novel
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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Cast adrift in the Depression-era West after the last of her relatives passes away, Zorrie survives by working at a radium processing plant before finding love, community and unexpected loss upon returning to her small Indiana hometown.
After losing both her parents and her aunt, Zorrie is cat into the perilous realities of rural Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, surviving on odd jobs, Zorrie finds a position at a radium processing plant. When...
16) Ghost wood song
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Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Shady Grove inherited her father's ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle's tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can't let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she's going to have to make those ghosts sing.
17) Queen's hope
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Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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Padmé is adjusting to being a wartime senator during the Clone Wars. Her secret husband, Anakin Skwyalker, is off fighting the war, and excels at being a wartime Jedi. In contrast, when Padmé gets the opportunity to see the casualties on the war-torn front lines, she is horrified. The stakes have never been higher for the galaxy, or for the newly-married couple. Meanwhile, with Padmé on a secret mission, her handmaiden Sabé steps into the role...
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"A young, restless Alabama teacher searching for a sense of purpose accepts a position at a tiny Louisiana bayou school, where a lonely Cajun fisherman, a tight-knit community, and a legendary white alligator will change her life forever"--
Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in tiny Bernadette, Louisiana deep in bayou country to escape the familiarity of her Alabama home. Though suspicious of outsiders, most of the people come to appreciate the...
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Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other...
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A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently...
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