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Author
Series
Danforths of Lancashire volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In this stunning conclusion to the saga, we find Lord Preston and his family are gathered in London in the late 1930s for what turns out to be a homecoming. The family is finally all together again, gathering in a way they haven't been able to do for years. But looming ahead is the summer and fall of 1940 when both the Battle of Britain and the Blitz will occur. Though the family is blissfully unaware of this soon-to-be reality, Lord Preston, privy...
642) Upstairs downstairs
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"Series four takes place during the Great War, from 1914-18, and no one is unaffected"--Container.
644) The penmaker's wife
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In Victorian England, a mother is on the run from her past-and the truth about what she did. Birmingham, 1880. Angelica Chastain has fled from London with her young son, William. She promises him a better life, far away from the terrors they left behind. Securing a job as a governess, Angelica captures the attention of wealthy widower Stanley Hampton. Soon they marry and the successful future Angelica envisaged for William starts to fall into place....
645) Starling
Author
Series
Secrets of the Eternal Rose volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Cass and Luca are back in Venice, trying to find the Book of the Eternal Rose to clear Luca's name and keep them both out of prison"--
Author
Series
Atherton volume 2
Pub. Date
[released 2008], c2008
Description
After Atherton's three-tiered world collapses, ending the geographical division of the social classes, Edgar, Samuel, and Isabel try to restore the flow of water and uncover the world's mysterious origins in the process.
647) Philomena
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Judi Dench stars in the story of Philomena Lee, mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock and given up for adoption. Nearly 50 years later, Philomena meets Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan), a former BBC reporter looking for his next big story. Together, they embark on a journey to locate her long lost son. As the pieces of the puzzle come together, the unlikely travel companions form a comic and heartwarming friendship. Based on the 2009 investigative...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Description
"Zahn is one of Krypton's elites: wealthy, privileged, a future leader. Sera is one of Krypton's soldiers: strong, dedicated, fearless. Their rule-bound society has ordained that their paths should never cross. But groundquakes are shaking the planet's surface. Rebellious uprisings are shaking the populace. Krypton's top scientists--Jor-El and Lara--conduct a secret experiment that is meant to reform their planet from the cellular level up. Zahn and...
Author
Series
Daughters of the Potomac volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
In 1775, Hayward Morgan, a young gentleman destined to inherit his father's estate in Derbyshire, England, captures the heart of the local vicar's daughter, Eliza Bloome. Her dark beauty and spirited ways are not enough to win him, due to her station in life.
650) Sense & sensibility
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness...
652) A bloom in winter
Author
Series
Summerset Abbey trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Rowena and Victoria Buxton and Prudence Tate were raised together as sisters, though Pru is the daughter of the Buxton's governess. As a result, she never really belonged in either world--downstairs with the household staff, or upstairs with the Buxton daughters.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
La recien divorciada Jasmine Mistry esta intentando rehacer su vida cuando recibe una llamada inesperada que la devolvera al lugar en el que se crio, la isla de Shelter, donde regentara temporalmente la estrafalaria libreria de su tia Ruma, un espacio fascinante del que siempre se ha dicho que estaba encantado. Sola y deseando comenzar de nuevo, la joven desembarca en el polvoriento y desordenado local y no tarda en descubrir que tiene compania. Los...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"In the last few decades, any hope of economic progress for black Americans has been slowly and steadily undermined. This quiet crisis was only exacerbated by the recession, which cut black households' wealth by over 30 percent. Black millennials watched their parents try to play by the rules, buying homes and aspiring to the trappings of middle-class life, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. Now, in the post-Obama era, young black Americans...
657) Insurgente
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tris Prior tries to save those she loves and herself while grappling with haunting questions and choosing a faction.
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Traces the life and literary achievements of American author, John Steinbeck. Examines how his concern for the underdog was expressed in his writing and often angered the establishment. Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Steinbeck was one the most celebrated authors of his day. Combines stories and recollections of friends and colleagues to reveal the brilliant mind and loving spirit behind the writing. Literary scholars discuss the controversy...
659) SANDITION
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Sandition's a place that's changing fast. Visionary entrepreneur Tom Parker is transforming the once-sleepy fishing village into a fashionable spa resort. Changing alongside it is the implulsive and unconventional Charlotte Heywood, who swaps her quiet rural home for the intrigues and dalliances of a seaside town on the rise.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Discusses the problems with American banking and investigates such informal banking alternatives as check-cashing businesses, payday lenders, and lending clubs.
"An urgent, absorbing exposé--why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did. What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high-net-worth entrepreneur, and a twenty-something graduate student...
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