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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Sylvie Pelletier leaves her family's Colorado mountain cabin to start work at a wealthy mine-owner's manor house and is fascinated by he luxury around her until she discovers the family's philosophy is at odds with the unfair labor practices that built their fortune.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18th-century drawing-room intrigues.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Bao, a poor physician's apprentice, and Lan, the wealthy nobleman's daughter he loves, work together to break a curse and save the kingdom of Feng Lu.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda's catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister--all...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
For soccer games Sierra goes to fields that are nicer than the "lot" in her neighborhood, but so her auntie can be at her last game, she asks Coach Marco if the team might play in her neighborhood on a day her aunt does not work.
10) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
Author
Series
The Clifton chronicles volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A first installment of a planned five-part series introduces the character of 1920s Bristol dock worker Harry Clifton, whose unexpected scholarship leads him to pursue a very different life while uncovering the truth about his father's identity.
13) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
15) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
16) Vanity fair
Author
Language
English
Description
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles—military and domestic—are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Traces the experiences of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house, from Nealie, a hired girl torn between two suitors; to motherless Pearl, whose grieving father sabotages her happiness; to proud Susan, who resolves to protect the house's secrets and legacy.
18) Jackpot
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she and her popular and wildly rich classmate, Zan can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize"--
Author
Series
The House of Falconer volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has set...
20) The notebook
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The movie revolves around Noah Calhoun's regular visits to a female patron of an area nursing home. Rather than bore her with the inanities of everyday life, Calhoun reads from an old, faded notebook containing the sweeping account of a young couple whose love affair was tragically put to a halt after their separation in the midst of World War II. Seven years later, the couple was reunited, and, despite having taken radically different paths, they...