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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
3) Dubliners
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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A collection of fifteen short stories, first published in 1914, that naturalistically depict life in Dublin during the early twentieth century.
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44 Scotland Street volume 9
Language
English
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"Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare when he lets his dog Cyril drink a bit too much lager at the local bar. The longsuffering Bertie, on the cusp of his seventh birthday party, has taken to dreaming about his eighteenth, a time when he will be able to avoid the indignity of unwanted girl attendees and the looming threat of a gender-neutral doll from his domineering...
5) Emma
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Language
English
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Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
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Publisher
JimCin Recordings
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Set in the Parisian underworld of the 1800s, Les Miserables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, an honest peasant imprisoned for nineteen years. A hardened criminal upon his release, an act of compassion causes him to change his ways. Haunted by his past, Valjean is pursued relentlessly by the Inspector Javert, who does not believe in moral redemption.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 10
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Language
English
Description
Things are looking up for seven-year-old Bertie Pollock. The arrival of his spirited grandmother and the absence of his meddlesome mother--who is currently running a book club in a Bedouin harem (don't ask)--bring unforeseen blessings: no psychotherapy, no Italian lessons, and no yoga classes. Meanwhile, surprises await Scotland Street's grown-ups. Matthew makes a discovery that could be a major windfall for his family, but also presents a worrisome...
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Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 10
Language
English
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Description
Precious Ramotswe tries to recover her trusty white van after her husband sells it and replaces it with a characterless modern vehicle, while The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency tries to discover if a local football team's games are fixed.
10) Belgravia
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Language
English
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Two families living in 1840s London must guard a secret that originated at the Duchess of Richmond's legendary ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo.
11) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Books
Pub. Date
p1995
Language
English
Description
Story of a workhouse orphan who is captured and thrust into a den of thieves and villains, but comes at last to his rightful heritage.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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Description
The orphan, Pip, and the convict, Magwitch, the beautiful Estella, and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the ambitious lawyer, Mr. Jaggers -- all have a part to play in the mystery. Dickens supplied two endings to his great novel, both are recorded leaving the listener to judge.
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Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 14
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 14
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume (14)
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 14
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume (14)
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English
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"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series is moving to the fall! In the latest book in the beloved best-selling series of mysteries set in Botswana, Mma Ramotswe is asked to help the proprietor of the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, who is having trouble with her business. The salon has suffered some unfortunate events, including face cream that burns the skin. Could someone be trying to put the salon out of business? Meanwhile, on the home front,...
14) Middlemarch
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Language
English
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A sensitive young woman marries a bitter, despotic scholar 30 years her senior, who lives just long enough to blight her spirit. She inherits his fortune, only to learn she will forfeit it if she marries her husband's young cousin. When Dorthea tries to find happiness without Ladislaw, the intricate plots, subplots and character portraits lead to a satisfying conclusion in this masterpiece of 19th-century morals and social issues.
15) Room with a view
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Language
English
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Inner conflict is fought out in room and on hills near Florence, Italy.
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Language
English
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"In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in an attempt to gain attention-and maybe just win each other back in the process. Five years ago, Lady Violet Grey and Lord James Audley met, fell in love, and got married. Four years ago, they had a fight to end all fights, and have barely spoken since. Their once-passionate love match has been reduced to one of cold, detached...
17) The muralist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Auction-house employee Danielle Abrams investigates the unsolved disappearance of her famous-artist great-aunt when she discovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind Abstract Expressionist works created decades earlier.
18) Northanger Abbey
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Language
English
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Jane Austen’s first major novel, a parody of the popular literature of the time, is an ironic tale of the romantic folly of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money. The humorous adventures of young Catherine as she encounters “the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks’ residence in Bath” lead to some of Austen’s most brilliant social satire. There is Catherine’s hilarious liaison with a paragon of bad manners and boastfulness,...
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Language
English
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Documents the first year spent by the Harvard-graduate author with her new husband on their sustainable farm in the Adirondacks, describing how she withdrew from big-city life to be married in their barn loft, the difficult obstacles they faced attempting to provide a whole diet for one hundred locals, and the rewards of a physical-labor lifestyle.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 12 Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. At a remote cattle post south of Gaborone two cows...
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