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"Winn Van Meter is heading for his family's retreat on the pristine New England island of Waskeke. Normally a haven of calm, for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff. Winn's wife, Biddy, has planned the wedding with military precision, but arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust:...
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Psmith series volume 4
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English
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Psmith becomes involved in a series of romantic, suspenseful, and hilarious situations after deciding to quit the profitable fish business and work at anything he is hired to do.
3) The warden
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English
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The first in a six-volume series of nineteenth-century novels, telling the story of Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who becomes the target of young zealous reformer John Bold who accuses Harding of misusing church funds.
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Publisher
Hesperus Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, and later in the 1846 collection Mosses from an Old Manse. It is about Giacomo Rappaccini, a medical researcher in medieval Padua who grows a garden of poisonous plants. He brings up his daughter to tend the plants, and she becomes resistant to the poisons, but in the process she herself becomes...
5) The years
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English
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The Pargiters, and upper-class English family, gather together to reminisce about the major and minor events that took place in their family history.
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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This book contains 8 short stories, none of which had been previously published in the United States. The stories are set around the world, in times from the 17th century to today, and feature universal themes of wealth, power, status, class and the absurdity of human behavior. [From publisher's description]
8) Bleak House
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
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English
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Tragedy strikes when cunning old lawyer Tulkinghorn makes it his business to unravel the mystery that surrounds the beautiful, haughty Lady Dedlock.
18) The Forsyte Saga
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English
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A brilliant social satire by Nobel Prize-winning author John Galsworthy, this monumental trilogy chronicles the lives of three generations of an upper-middle-class London family obsessed with money and respectability.
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"Mary and her three sisters rise every day to backbreaking farmwork that threatens to suppress their own awakening desires, whether it's Violet's pull toward womanhood or Beatrice's affinity for the Scriptures. But it's their father, whose anger is unleashed at the slightest provocation, who stands to deliver the most harm. Only Mary, fierce of tongue and a spitfire since birth, dares to stand up to him. When he sends her to work for the local vicar...
20) A modern comedy
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Publisher
C. Scribner's sons
Pub. Date
1929
Language
English
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"The Forsyte Saga" is a renowned work by Galsworthy, consisting of three novels and two interludes, published between 1906 and 1921. It follows the lives of the Forsyte family, a wealthy and influential British family, and explores themes of love, marriage, class, and social change. The sequel series, commonly referred to as "A Modern Comedy," consists of three novels published between 1924 and 1928. The novels in this series are: "The White Monkey"...
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