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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Isabelle Goodrow, horrified and enraged when she discovers her teenage daughter Amy is involved with a math teacher at the high school, comes to realize that her outrage is mostly the result of the secret she has been keeping for most of Amy's life.
3) The bookshop
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English
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When Florence Green opens a bookshop in a sleepy seaside town she is met with open resistance by her neighbors who resent her success.
5) The choir
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English
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A financial crisis within the church creates a rift within the community when no one can agree whether the boy's choir should be sacrificed in order to save money.
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English
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Verona North had seemed the perfect daughter. She'd surprised her friends by leaving her home to attend art school in London, but they'd thought it was a normal, youthful rebellion which wouldn't last very long. However, when she did return home in the summer of 1914, it was to die-pregnant and with her body full of morphine. Her cousin, Nell Bray, isn't wholly convinced she committed suicide and is positive she was not an addict. Unable to suppress...
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Ian Rutledge returns to his job at Scotland Yard after five years on the battlefield, keeping secret the fact that he is still suffering from shell shock, and almost immediately is sent to investigate the case of a murdered military officer in which the chief suspect is a much-decorated war hero.
8) Decider
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English
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Architect Lee Morris becomes involved with the Stratton Park racecource and becomes a major player in a dangerous game.
12) Howards end
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English
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The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist intersect at an estate called Howards End. There, the lives of three families become entangled. The Wilcoxes, who own the estate, are a wealthy family who made their fortune in the American colonies. The Schlegel siblings-Margaret, Helen, and Tibby-are lively socialites whose spirited and active lifestyles are...
13) Pride and prejudice and zombies: the classic regency romance--now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem
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Quirk Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice," in which Meryton is overrun with zombies and Elizabeth Bennet does what must be done to rid the world of the flesh-eating fiends, but she is distracted by the arrival of Mr. Darcy, a rich man who harbors an air of arrogance.
14) Sons and lovers
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English
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Sons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It traces emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers, which exert complex influences on the development of his manhood. The novel was originally published by Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd., London, and Mitchell Kennerley Publishers, New York. While the novel initially received...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
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English
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Journalist Andrew Sherwood tracks down the victim of a brutal attack in the hopes of learning more about her for his story, and when he locates her, he finds himself drawn to her, but before they can start their life together, Andrew must find a way to help her escape from her abusive husband.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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American Rafe Bowman travels to London at Christmastime to meet Lady Natalie Blandford, the young woman his father has chosen to be his bride, and even though Rafe knows his future stake in his wealthy father's company depends on his marrying Natalie, he cannot seem to get her cousin and companion, Hannah, out of his mind.
18) Mistress
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English
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A former English school mistress masquerades as the mistress of an infamous Earl in order to stop a blackmailer.
20) Skin
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English
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Detective Jack Caffery investigates a series of possible suicides that appear to have a connection with Elf's Grotto in Bristol, but with help from police diver Flea Marley, Caffery discovers more evidence that points to an insane predator obsessed with skin.
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