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1) Alice Adams
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1921
Physical Desc
434 p.; illus. 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1921, "Alice Adams" is a novel by American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946). Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. One of his most famous and successful novels, "Alice Adams" follows the eponymous character and her struggle...
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.
5) Vanity fair
Author
Language
English
Description
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles—military and domestic—are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
312p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
For Darl Union, life in Burnt Stand, North Carolina, has always been a mixture of wealth, privilege, loneliness and sinister family secrets. Even her childhood love for Eli Wade, the son of a stone cutter, was tangled in a web of deceit and murder. His father, an innocent man, died for killing her great aunt. Now Darl and Eli must come to grips with the past and all its mysteries.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Sylvie Pelletier leaves her family's Colorado mountain cabin to start work at a wealthy mine-owner's manor house and is fascinated by he luxury around her until she discovers the family's philosophy is at odds with the unfair labor practices that built their fortune.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the author's novel about Amir, a forty-year-old novelist living in the U.S., who returns to his native Afghanistan to right a terrible wrong that ended his boyhood friendship with Hassan, a member of the persecuted Hazara people.
10) Snobs: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Physical Desc
265, 13 p.
Language
English
12) Enchantée
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
449 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After smallpox takes their parents, seventeen-year-old Camille supports herself and her sister by magically transforming herself into a baroness in the court at Versailles, then faces difficult choices as the French Revolution looms.
13) Jeremy Poldark
Author
Series
Poldark volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the tragic death of a loved one, Captain Poldark vents his grief by inciting impoverished locals to salvage the contents of a ship run aground in a storm, an act for which British law proscribes death by hanging. As Ross is brought to trial for his involvement, his wife, Demelza, tries to rally support to save him and their family.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
564 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Elsie wants a horse of her own, but there is no way her poor family can afford it, she begins helping out at a boy named Elam's father's horse farm and develops complicated feelings for the handsome young man.
16) Class: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Working full-time for a non-profit organization and sending her daughter to an integrated school, Karen is forced to rethink her liberal ideals in the face of her do-gooder husband's questionable priorities and her daughter's struggles with bullying.
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After being paired together for the science fair, two girls from starkly different backgrounds form an unlikely friendship that draws their families into a web of secrets and lies and sets them on a dangerous desert odyssey.
18) 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
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...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! From Reese's Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes an absolute tour de force--the wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore's elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own"--