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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...
4) The Heir (4)
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
1st pbk. ed., 2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
Book Paperback
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought"--OCLC.
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
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Piecing together memories from her teen years at an elite English boarding school, Josephine gradually exposes a violent secret explaining why the once-prestigious institution abruptly closed in disgrace.
7) 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
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection--but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
787 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Falling in love with penniless fisherman Ben, who she tutors in exchange for his services for her father, Reconstruction-era plantation mistress Abigail Sinclair is devastated when Ben becomes entangled in her father's illicit Ku Klux Klan activities.
13) 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.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Joining an expedition to chart the southern seas, twelve-year-old mapmaker's assistant Sai, posing as a well-bred young lady with a glittering future, realizes she's not the only one on board harboring secrets when she discovers the ship's true destination.
15) The one
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"As her Selection approaches its finish, America must decide where her heart truly lies--and Prince Maxon must pick one winner to wear the crown"--Provided by publisher.
16) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. But will she be prepared to face impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love?
17) The heir
Author
Series
A selection novel volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
487 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide and she takes it upon herself to uncover the truth.
19) The crown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
35 suitors entered the Selection. Only 1 will win her heart. The fifth and final captivating novel in Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series! In The Heir, a new era dawned in the world of The Selection. Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Prince Maxon fell in love, and their daughter is the first princess to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn didn't think she would find a real partner among the Selection's thirty-five...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn't the prince. Features four novellas from the world of Kiera Cass's Selection series, two of which appear here in print for the first time. Additional content includes new scenes from The Selection, The Elite, and The One;...