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(0)David Case
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr. Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time...
3) Adam Bede
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Series
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Arthur's seduction of an innocent, young country girl results in remorse, suffering, and regret.
4) Hard times
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative sides of their nature. They are raised in ignorance of love and affection, and the consequences are devastating. No other work of Dickens presents so harsh an indictment against the attitude of life he associated with Utilitarianism. With savage bitterness Dickens...
5) Whose body?
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Language
English
Description
In his first murder case, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the bizarre case of a corpse in the bathtub.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America -- where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain -- the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American...
8) Our game
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Series
John Lecarre novel volume 7
Language
English
Description
A romantic triangle on a retired British intelligence officer, his girl and the spy who stole her. It is told against the backdrop of the rebellion in Chechnya and the international intrigues surrounding it. A tale of the moral wastes of post-Cold War Europe in both East and West. By the author of The Night Manager.
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Series
Richard Sharpe volume 17
Language
English
Description
With the Duke of Wellington set to invade France, Major Richard Sharpe finds himself without a regiment, and disguising himself as a new recruit, uncovers in England a web of treachery and corruption.
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Language
English
Description
Bertie gets into a bit of trouble when one of his pals, Bingo Little, starts to fall in love with every second girl he lays his eyes on. But the soup gets really thick when Bingo decides to marry one of them and enlists Bertie's help. Luckily, he has the inimitable Jeeves to pull him out of it.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Claudius, born weak and with a stutter, was shamed and dismissed by his family as an idiot. This allowed him to live under the public radar and avoid his family's scandal and eventual murder. Claudius survived to become the emperor of Rome in 41 A.D.
12) War and peace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
'There remains the greatest of all novelists-for what else can we call the author of War And Peace? [Tolstoy's] senses, his intellect, are acute, powerful, and well nourished...Nothing seems to escape him. Nothing glances off him unrecorded...Every twig, every feather sticks to his magnet. He notices the blue or red of a child's frock; the way a horse shifts its tail; the sound of a cough; the action of a man trying to put his hands into pockets that...
14) Sharpe's siege
Author
Series
Sharpe volume 18
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In 1814, the Napoleonic Wars rage on as Britain invades France. Gearing up for a long and bitter winter campaign, Major Richard Sharpe and his company are unwittingly used as diversionary pawns. Faced with taking a French fortress while simultaneously dealing with American mercenaries, Sharpe butts heads with the bungling Captain Horace Bampfylde.
TRAPPED WITH HIS BACK TO THE SEA, MAJOR RICHARD SHARPE AND A HANDFUL OF MEN MUST STAND AGAINST A BATTALION...
15) Sharpe's revenge
Author
Series
Sharpe volume 21
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It is 1814, and the defeat of Napoleon seems imminent--if the well-protected city of Toulouse can be conquered. For Richard Sharpe, the battle turns out to be one of the bloodiest of the Peninsula Wars, and he must draw on his last reserves of strength to lead his troops to victory. But before Sharpe can lay down his sword, he must fight a different sort of battle. Accused of stealing Napoleon's personal treasure. Sharpe escapes from a British military...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The stench of death hung in the air as John Altar studied the massacre and tried to convince himself that his younger brother, Bobby, couldn't have been part of this. Torn apart by the Civil War, the two brothers had fought on opposite sides, and in defeat, Bobby had fallen in with a group of Confederate raiders when released from a Prisoner of War camp. Their mother's consuming wish was for her wayward son to be brought back to her, and Altar has...
17) To Let
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Language
English
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To Let is book three of the Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are at war with its passions.
In To Let, Jon and Fleur, now both nineteen years old, fall in love. However, when Jolyon informs his son of the past feud between the families, Jon decides that he cannot marry Fleur. Instead he travels to America, where his mother Irene later joins him. Fleur
...18) Swan song
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Series
Language
English
Description
After years living in America with his mother, Jon Forsyte is excited to be home and eager to show off his roots to his new bride. When Fleur Forsyte, now Fleur Mont Jon s first love hears of his arrival, she doesn't know what to feel. She is now married too, and while Jon and Fleur try to interact as friends, their strong feelings for one another are not easily contained. When their passion is rekindled, no one can halt the devastating events that...
19) Les Misérables
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Language
English
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Description
Book lovers of all ages owe it to themselves to conquer this masterwork of nineteenth-century fiction from Victor Hugo, also author of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. One hundred and fifty years after the original publication of Les Miserables, the heart-rending story of Jean Valjean, Fantine, Cosette and dozens of others of France's downtrodden and dispossessed continues to capture the imaginations of audiences around the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Language
English
Description
In Chancery, the second novel in John Galsworthy's epic social satire The Forsyte Saga, follows the events of A Man of Property. After suffering the death of her lover and abuse from her husband Soames, Irene Forsyte finally leaves her marriage for good. Though socially disgraced by her affair, she forms a bond with the late Old Jolyon, a father of the Forsyte clan who had grown distant from the family after reconciling with
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