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1) Jane Eyre
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Emma Bovary becomes bored with her life and embarks on an affair.
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"When Lady Phoebe Renshaw's sister Julia chooses to marry the much older and wealthy viscount Gilbert Townsend, it is clear the marriage is not a love match. On their wedding night, Julia and Gil have a heated argument aboard his yacht. The the next morning, Gil's body is found in the water and suspicion falls on Julia"--
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Jeeves volume 1
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As a member of the Junior Ganymede Club--an association of butlers and valets that is in reality an arm of the British intelligence service--Jeeves must ferret out a Fascist spy, with the help of his hapless employer, Bertie Wooster.
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In Mine Till Midnight, no-nonsense Miss Amelia Hathaway has no time for romance—but she can't resist matching wits with a sexy former card sharp named Cam Rohan.
After inheriting a country estate, the Hathaway siblings are trying to recover from their troubled past and make a new start. As the family struggles with unforeseen problems, Cam Rohan keeps stepping in to help . . . and Amelia realizes the unpredictable charmer
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Corduroy mansions volume 3
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"It's back to Corduroy Mansions--the slightly dilapidated but well-lived-in mansion block in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood--for the third installment in Alexander McCall Smith's newest popular series. There's never a dull moment for the residents of Corduroy Mansions: Berthea Snark is still at work on her scathing biography of the only loathsome Liberal Democrat member of Parliament--her own son, Oedipus; literary agents Rupert Porter and Barbara...
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Little, Brown and Company
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Sent to the prestigious boarding school his family has attended for generations, Ben struggles to prove himself at the side of a marginalized roommate before realizing how much the school's realities differ from what he anticipated.
7) Ethan Frome
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Set in New England, a farmer struggles to survive a bare existence, tethered to his farm, first by his helpless parents and then by a hypochondriac wife. Yet, when his wife's alluring cousin comes to stay, his dreams are rekindled.
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"Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in." -Evelyn Waugh
"Wodehouse is one of the funniest and most productive men who ever wrote in English. He is far from being a mere jokesmith: he is an authentic craftsman, a wit and humorist of the first water, the inventor of a prose style which is a...
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The Colour of Milk is a literary tour de force of power, class, and fate, told in the fierce, urgent voice of the irrepressible Mary, a character as indelible as The Color Purple's Celie and Margaret Atwood's eponymous Alias Grace.
Set in England in 1830, The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon is an emotionally haunting work of historical fiction - hailed as "charming, Brontë-esque...and hard to forget" (Marian Keyes) - about an illiterate farm girl's...
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Governess brides volume 4
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After the Distinguished Academy of Governesses instills in her a refinement that would make her an acceptable match for Ellery, her childhood crush, Celeste's plans are thwarted by his formidable older brother, Garrick Throckmorton.
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"They may be twins, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites. Penny is the life of the party--loud and outrageous, while quiet and thoughtful Lizzy is often left out of the crowd. The one trait they do share is a longing to do something spectacular with their lives, and as far as these two are concerned, there's no better place to make their dreams come true than London. Presented with a once-in-a-lifetime house-sit at their grandmother's...
14) Mr. Loverman
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Seventy-four-year-old Barrington Walker is a secret homosexual and lover to his childhood friend, Morris, but when his marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington wants to divorce his wife and live with Morris, a move that would challenge a lifetime of fear and deception.
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Company of Rogues volume 15
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"With wit and humor, Jo Beverley proves a wonderful 18th-century romance starring two amiable lead characters whose first encounter is one of the best in recent memory. The tale is filled with non-stop action
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Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a new collection of cork-screwed tales from the author of Great Apes. The Guardian (London) describes Will Self as "a wayward genius," and you can find out why when you observe the author's pitiless dissection of the foibles of men, women, and the Volvo 760 Turbo. Self's world is a no-funhouse of warped mirrors. A man is seduced into a misanthropically charged symbiosis with the insects infesting his cottage-he...
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"It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau realizes her only means of escape is to advertise her services as a domestic servant in England. Fate brings her ad to the attention of Christopher Rivers, handsome scion of the aristocratic Rivers family and master of Tyneford. An anxious Elise arrives at Tyneford and immediately falls under its spell. When Christopher's young son, Kit, returns home,...
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Marriage mart volume 1
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Her timing couldn't be worse ... Miss Eugenia Talbot's presentation to the Queen is spoiled by a serious faux pas -- the despicable William Grant made her laugh, right in front of Her Majesty. Now Eugenia is ruined and had better marry -- someone, anyone -- at once ... And his couldn't be better ... Roguish William Grant has never taken anything seriously in his life. Until he meets Eugenia Talbot, who makes him feel and do things he never thought...