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1) Little women
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Lexile measure
1300L
Language
English
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"Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832?1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters?Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March?detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Little Women was an immediate commercial and...
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Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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"Kit has grown up on the island of Barbados, loved and pampered by her grandfather. But after his death, Kit must leave. It's not proper for a sixteen-year-old girl to live by herself. She's heard stories about her aunt and uncle who live in the colony of Connecticut. These are the only relatives Kit knows of. So, alone and desperate, she sets sail to live with them in New England. When she arrives, Kit is shocked by the gray, damp landscape, but...
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English
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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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English
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Six weeks of shopping, taking tea with the most fashionable ladies and dancing with the most handsome gentlemen is what awaits young Catherine Morland when she makes her entree into the leisure society at Bath. But, oh, the thrill of an unexpected invitation from the mysterious Tilney family to stay at their home-a veritable abbey.
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Series
Jackaby volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer R. F. Jackaby are called upon to investigate the supernatural. First, a vicious species of shape-shifters disguise themselves as a litter of kittens, and a day later, their owner is found murdered with a single mysterious puncture wound. Then in nearby Gad's Valley, now home to the exiled New Fiddleham police detective...
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Series
Storms of war trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This scintillating third part of the 'Storms of War' trilogy finds Celia in the glittering new city of 1920s New York, hunting for her son, Michael, who was taken from her at birth. In her desperation to find him, thwarted at every turn, she looks to the valiant girls of an underground flapper army and runaway boy with the biggest heart who knows New York inside and out for help. While in New York, she reconnects with Jonathan Corrigan--the best...
8) Remembrance
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Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Bestselling romance writer Hayden Lane has just lost the "perfect" man, but what real man could compete with the dark intriguing character she writes about. But when a psychic tells her that Hayden has had a past life, she yearns to know more, and despite the psychic's warnings, Hayden cannot let this go. In an effort to learn about her past, Hayden is hypnotized, but instead of merely remembering, she awakens in Edwardian England and immediately...
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Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 242 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The New England town of Dorsetville, "where miracles are never far away," faces unexpected challenges in this much-anticipated fourth volume of Katherine Valentine's beloved series. The rumor mill is running at full speed: the Country Kettle Cafe, meeting place for everyone who's anyone, may close down now that the owner's wife has struck it rich. Deputy Hill is devastated over his open-ended assignment to the graveyard shift, his just desserts for...
10) The dire king
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Series
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this conclusion to the Jackaby series, the eccentric detective and his assistant Abigail Rook find themselves in the middle of a war between magical worlds.
An evil king is using a blend of magic and technology to push Earth and the Otherworld into a mortal competition. In New Fiddleham, Jackaby and Abigail are caught in the middle as they try to close the rend between the two worlds, and discover why zombies are appearing around town. As the...
13) Selected tales
Author
Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
Limited ed.
Physical Desc
566 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century New England, talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up in their company.
20) Little women
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (194 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.