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Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New...
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English
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In what Henry James called a 'trap for the unwary', The Turn of the Screw tells of a nameless young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. But is the threat to her young charges really a malign and ghostly presence or something else entirely? The Turn of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders..." And so begins the classic tale of Edward Bear--better known as Winnie-the-Pooh. For nearly seventy years, readers have been delighted by the adventures of Christopher Robin and his lovable friends. Paired with the perfectly suited drawings of Ernest H. Shepard, A. A. Milne's classic story continues to captivate...
4) Sanditon
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Publisher
Scribner Paperback
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Smart, beautiful and desperate for a husband, Charlotte Heywood must escape the clutches of two impossible suitors in order to claim the heart of a charming and fickle young man, in a story originally left unfinished at the author's death.
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English
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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published in French as L'Île Mystérieuse in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American...
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Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2007
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Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (330 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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English
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Follow one large, ungainly 'duck' as he is laughed at, kicked and pecked for being different. The author shows that beauty is only skin - deep and many other important moral lessons in more than five hours of his best, most inspiring stories: The Ugly Duckling; The Nightingale; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Little Mermaid; The Princess and the Pea; Little Tiny; Little Fir Tree; The Garden of Paradise; The Red Shoes; The Tinder Box and several others....
8) Rebecca
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Against the setting of a great English estate unfolds the story of Rebecca, its glamorous mistress, who had been dead for eight months. Maxim de Winter's young and frightened second wife gradually realizes that there is some mystery surrounding her death, but it is not until the night of the big costume ball that her suspicions are confirmed and, with an ever-increasing atmosphere of impending disaster, the real story becomes known.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 323 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.
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Series
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co., a division of Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
[1911]
Edition
New Reproductions,
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
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English
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After a terrible misunderstanding, poor Timmy Tiptoes ends up deep inside the trunk of a dead tree, with no means of getting out. Luckily, the chipmunk who lived there was very friendly and kind to Timmy. Before long, a strong wind blows the top off the dead tree trunk, but poor Timmy can't get himself out on account of eating far too many nuts and being a little bit too round!
Author
Series
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co., a division of Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
[1917]
Edition
New Reproductions,
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
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Beatrix Potter gathered material for a book of rhymes over many years. In 1917, when her publisher was in financial difficulties and needed her help, she suggested that Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes could be brought out quickly, using her existing collection of rhymes and drawings. The fact that the illustrations were painted at different times explains why the style occasionally varies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co., a division of Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
[1922]
Edition
New Reproductions,
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
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Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes is a sequel to Beatrix Potter's first rhyme collection, Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes. Like the previous book it contains material she had produced and collected over a period of many years. the Cecily Parsley sequence of illustrations, for example, were first made into a little booklet twenty-five years earlier, in 1897.
Author
Series
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co., a division of Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
[1905]
Edition
New Reproductions,
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle is an original classic by Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle was first published in 1905, and is as charming today as it was then. It tells the tale of a hidden home high in the hills. It is discovered one day by a little girl called Lucie, who is in search of her missing pocket handkerchiefs. She knocks on the tiny door, and meets Mrs Tiggy-winkle who does all the washing and ironing for the neighbouring animals....
15) Anna Karenina
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1946
Physical Desc
736 p. : [14] leaves of plates, ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views...
Author
Series
Publisher
Frederick Warne & Co., a division of Penguin Random House UK
Pub. Date
[1912]
Edition
New Reproductions,
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Tale of Mr Tod brings back Beatrix Potter's most popular heroes, Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, in an adventure that also features two very disagreeable villains. Fortunately Tommy Brock the badger and Mr. Tod the fox dislike each other so much that they Tommy Brock kidnaps Benjamin's young family, Mr Tod unwittingly becomes the rabbits' ally.
18) Twice-Told Tales
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Publisher
Mint Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
354 pages
Language
English
Description
Twice-Told Tales is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most loved collections of short stories. Presented here is the complete collection of tales which includes the following: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Wedding-Knell, The Minister's Black Veil, The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Gentle Boy, Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, Little Annie's Ramble, Wakefield, A Rill From the Town Pump, The Great Carbuncle, The Prophetic Pictures, David Swan, Sights...
Author
Publisher
Boni
Pub. Date
1927
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
235 p. ; ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper seeks to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths...