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English
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An influential twentieth-century novel admired for its philosophical and psychological introspection The Ramsay family is on holiday on the Isle of Sky in Scotland. As the family and their guests decide on whether or not to visit a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf spins a tale that focuses on the intricate web of family life and the conflict that occurs between genders.
Author
Publisher
Winston
Pub. Date
1923
Language
English
Description
"The Story of a Bad Boy" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce...
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Series
The House of Falconer volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A charismatic and ambitious businessman in Victorian England faces the tragic ruin of everything he has worked to achieve before a royal summons gives him a chance to prove his talents.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After accompanying her new mistress to Italy, Biddy Leigh, the under-cook at Mawton Hall, begins a culinary adventure that includes secrets and a murderous conspiracy.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What ho! A new Jeeves and Wooster novel, penned in homage to P.G. Wodehouse by bestselling author Ben Schott--in which literature's favorite gentleman and his gentleman's personal gentleman become spies in service to the Crown.
The misadventures of P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and his incomparable valet, Jeeves, have delighted audiences for nearly a century. Now, bestselling author Ben Schott brings this odd couple back to life in a madcap new...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 p.
Language
English
Description
When her sister Julia's new--and much older--husband is found dead the morning after their hasty marriage, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva, must discover the killer before the Renshaws' social standing is irreparably damaged by a murder charge.
8) Olivia Twist
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Orphaned at birth and living as a boy, Olivia Brownlow finds herself living as a debutante in high society after a caper goes wrong and encounters Jack MacCarron, a boy once known as the Artful Dodger.
9) Arrowood
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1895, London private investigator Arrowood, who despises Sherlock Holmes's methods and attracts the lower class clients that would not approach Holmes, investigates a disappearance and a stabbing that lead him against a notorious gang leader.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Anticipating a London season of dancing and campaigning for women's rights, Lady Emily Hargreaves investigates a blackmailing vandal who splashes red paint on the homes of elite citizens before revealing their scandalous secrets.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
391 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mariah Aubrey lives in an abandoned gatehouse on a distant relative's estate, where she supports herself and her servant by writing novels in secret, and when Captain Matthew Bryant leases the estate, she is attracted to him.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The first entry in a trilogy about the shared lives of masters and servants at the turn of the twentieth century traces the family life of Cabinet hopeful Lord Robert, who hopes to alleviate financial woes by marrying his son to a disgraced Chicago heiress.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
414 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recently widowed Dorothea Gibson examines her difficult life with a late, beloved, celebrity author during Queen Victoria's reign in this novel based on the real-life troubled marriage of Charles Dickens.
16) Jane Eyre
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xlii, 578 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eight Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy students manage to uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to snare a husband in a remote corner of England where there are virtually no eligible men.
18) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. --Amazon.com
19) Emma
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Series
Language
English
Description
Occasionally thoughtless, always headstrong, and constantly meddling in the affairs of her friends, Emma is a character for the ages. Hers is a story that has seamlessly translated to contemporary life. Sparkling with rare literary energy, Emma is a comedy of manners, depicting the self-contained world of 19th-century English life.
20) Devil's daughter
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Although beautiful young widow Phoebe, Lady Clare, has never met West Ravenel, she knows one thing for certain: he's a mean, rotten bully. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband's life a misery, and she'll never forgive him for it. But when Phoebe attends a family wedding, she encounters a dashing and impossibly charming stranger who sends a fire-and-ice jolt of attraction through her. And then he introduces himself . . . as none other...