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In Jane Austen's third published novel after Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice? young Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt? Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram? at Mansfield Park. Raised among her four cousins? Fanny, the poor relation, often goes unobserved in the household? making her a unique observer of the ethics? morals? attitudes and behavior of English society.
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Mystery library volume 3
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English
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The first novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, America & rsquo;s queen of crime This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. So says Rachel Innes, the spinster in question and one of the most remarkable heroines in American...
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"Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She's made a mistake so huge, it'll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she's mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they've hired a lawyer--and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Regency sleuths Lavinia Lake and Tobias March stumble into the middle of a deadly mystery as they become caught up in the search for a killer who targets wealthy older men on the brink of marrying beautiful, much younger women.
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English
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On a dark night, along a lonely country road, barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a young lady in distress and discovers a sports car with a corpse behind the wheel. The girl protests her innocence, and Amberley believes her, at least until he gets drawn into the mystery and the clues incriminating Shirley Brown begin to add up.
12) Ashenden
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An epic saga of the upstairs and downstairs residents of an English country house which spans some 240 years and includes the stories of its original architect, a Victorian family that shared four decades of family history, soldiers billeted in the house during World War I, and a young couple who restores the house in the 1950s.
17) Thirteen guests
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
Ã2015.
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English
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On a fine autumn weekend, Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court. Among the guests are an actress, a journalist, an artist, and a mystery novelist. The unlucky thirteenth is John Foss, injured at the local train station and brought to the house to recuperate--but John is nursing a secret of his own. Soon events take a sinister turn when a painting is mutilated, a dog stabbed, and a man strangled. Death strikes more...
19) A cunning death
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Rose Beckingham murder mystery volume 3
Publisher
[Blythe Baker]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Rose Beckingham receives a threatening message from a shadowy figure of the criminal underworld, she's forced to face her greatest fear--the exposure of all her secrets. Forced to do the bidding of the man who calls himself the Chess Master, Rose accompanies Lord and Lady Ashton to their country estate and tries to thwart a murder before it happens. With the Chess Master watching her every move and the brilliant French detective, Achilles Prideaux,...
20) Howard's End
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820L
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English
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A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life.