Rosalyn Landor
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Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.) volume 410
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it's only when she and her friends Ruth...
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller,"* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is...
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English
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It is 1803, 6 years since Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage. Their peaceful, orderly world seems unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house, and her sister Jane lives nearby. Preparations are underway for the annual autumn ball. On the eve of the ball, the patrician idyll is shattered. A coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, the disgraced sister, who is hysterical, shrieking that Wickham has been murdered....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
7) The child
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Kate Waters novels (Fiona Barton) volume 2
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English
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"As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it's a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but at a loss for answers, she can only pose a question: Who is the Building Site Baby? As Kate investigates, she unearths connections to a crime that rocked the city decades earlier: A newborn baby was stolen from...
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English
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While trying to deal with her mini-terror two-year-old, financially strapped Becky Brandon attempts to plan a surprise party on a budget for her husband, Luke, and starts to come apart at the seams as she juggles the party, her precocious child, and her faltering personal-shopping business.
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Series
Adelia Aguilar series volume 1
Language
English
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In medieval Cambridge four children are murdered. The Catholics blame the Jews and they are placed under the protection of the King Henry VIII. The king sends for someone to do a scientific investigation into the deaths. The person sent is an Italian woman doctor, but in medieval Cambridge she must conceal her true identity to keep herself safe.
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English
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Sally Bedell Smith brings us the first authoritative treatment of Charles, Prince of Wales that brings to life the real man, with all of his ambitions, insecurities, and convictions. It follows him through his lonely childhood, his difficult years at school, his early love affairs, his intellectual quests, his entrepreneurial pursuits, and his intense search for spiritual meaning. It sheds light on the tragedy of his first marriage, the death of Diana,...
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English
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In the aftermath of the 2006 massacre of nineteen people in a Swedish village, Judge Birgitta Roslin, a granddaughter of two of the victims, discovers the nineteenth-century diary of a gang leader that reveals the case's eerie connections to the abuse of Chinese slave workers.
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English
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When her mistress departs from Victorian London society to seek relief from tuberculosis symptoms in Egypt, maid Sally throws herself into their new culture and comes to know freedoms she has never experienced before she is harshly reminded of her humble station in life.
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Disney fairies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Three fairies from Never Land must deliver a wand they promised to the mermaid who has threatened to flood their home in Fairy Haven.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from the obscurity of the Essex countryside to the forefront of Henry VIII's spectacular court. Born Jane Rochford in about 1505, this daughter of an aristocratic family became lady in waiting to not just one, but five of Henry's wives ... Always at the center of court life and intrigue, Jane attended the parties, the masque balls, and the jousts, and participated in the royal births, the...
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Series
League of beastly dreadfuls volume 1
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
18) Tangled reins
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
Miss Dorothea Darent has no intention of ever getting married, certainly not to a rogue such as the Marquis of Hazelmere. A disreputable scoundrel, he is captivated when they meet by chance and is determined to win her heart, even while she's busy dazzling the rest of London society. Now Dorothea has a choice to make: stick with her plan to remain a respectable spinster, or run into the arms of her dashing stranger.
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Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Assuming that his long-time correspondent, Eloise Bridgerton, is a homely, quiet, unassuming spinster sho would be desperate for an offer of marriage, Sir Phillip proposes through the mail, never expecting to discover that his prospective fiancee is a stunningly beautiful young woman who is the toast of London.
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Series
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English
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Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball-or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes...