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Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012, c1978
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the fateful summer of 1914, when the clouds of war were gathering, Lord Anthony Greville gathered together his family at his manor house for one last round of parties, teas, dances, and romance.
22) 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.
23) Unspoken
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The envelope delivered to Shelby Coles's Seattle home contains no return address, just a photograph of a little baby. Shelby knows at once that this is the daughter she was told died at birth. And in that moment, Shelby knows something else-- she needs to go back to Bad Luck, Texas.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Lala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells her a cautionary tale of the one-armed sister, and what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. Now Lala lives on the beach with her husband,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her best friend ditches her to be with the popular girls, lonely seventh-grader Sophie reaches out to the new girl next door and lies about her social status to keep her as a friend.
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.
27) The kite runner
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.
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.
30) 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
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 274 pages : Illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful new work, Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have been moving toward greater equality. Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world and shows how we can learn from them to make equality a lasting reality"--
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Bao, a poor physician's apprentice, and Lan, the wealthy nobleman's daughter he loves, work together to break a curse and save the kingdom of Feng Lu.
33) A Distant Heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (10 1/2 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit, and to her parents, that's exactly what Kimaya is. The first baby to survive after several miscarriages, Kimi grows up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home, with only the Arabian Sea churning outside her window for company. . . . Until one person...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
330 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
35) Belle révolte
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
372 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Comtesse Emilie, whose yearning to be a physician is below her station, switches places with Annette, who needs training to develop her magic, as their homeland is threatened by war.
Author
Series
Canadian crossings volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of World War I, Grace hopes to reclaim her nephew, Christian, from the relatives who rejected her sister because of her social class. Under an alias, she goes to Toronto and becomes her orphaned nephew's nanny. Observing the family up close, she begins to fall for Andrew Easton, the boy's guardian. Andrew is promised to a spoiled socialite who is sure to make a terrible stepmother. Can Grace protect her nephew... and her heart?
37) Everless
Author
Series
Everless volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a land where the rich are able to hoard time, Jules Ember returns to the estate where she and her father used to be servants and where the youngest son of an aristocratic family is planning to marry the daughter of the queen.
38) The summer wives
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda's catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister--all...
39) Vampire Academy
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Drix, who was convicted of a crime he did not commit, meets Elle, the daughter of the governor backing a project designed to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents, they have to fight family expectations and their past behaviors to be together.