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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
Series
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she gains entry into the Glittering Court, war refugee Mira continues to endure persecution while learning skills that help her earn anonymity, forging friendships that inspire her to hatch a daring but dangerous plan.
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
Series
The Clifton chronicles volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Language
English
Description
In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife, Karin, from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job. Sebastian Clifton becomes chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank, but only after Hakim Bishara has to...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to escape an arranged marriage, Adelaide, an Osfridian countess, poses as her servant to start a new life in Adoria, the New World.
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.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xi, 385 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A compassionate and discerning exploration of the complex relationship between the server, the served, and the world they lived in, Servants opens a window onto British society from the Edwardian period to the present.
12) 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
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustration ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widow Elizabeth Overfield and Colin Handrich know there can never be a relationship between them, but an agreement to share a waltz at each ball they attend leaves them questioning what they are willing to sacrifice for love.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
16) Ross Poldark
Author
Series
Poldark volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tired from a war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. The joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead. But his sympathy for the destitute farmers of the district leads him to rescue an urchin girl and take her home, an act which alters the whole course of his life.
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) 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.
19) Demelza
Author
Series
Poldark volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Demelza Carne, the miner's daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. But the events of these turbulent years will test their marriage and their love. Ross begins a bitter struggle for the rights of the mining communities and sows the seed of an enduring enmity with powerful George Warleggan.
20) Last sacrifice
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
594 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. Now, with Rose on trial for her life and Lissa first in line for the Royal Throne, nothing will ever be the same between them. The final book in the Vampire Academy series.