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1. A most intriguing lady: a novel

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Author:
Ferguson, Sarah, Duchess of York, 1959-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"From Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, a sweeping, romantic compulsively readable historical saga about a Duke's daughter--the perfect Victorian lady--who secretly moonlights as an amateur sleuth for high society's inner circle"--

2. Pride and prejudice

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Signature classics
Dover Thrift Editions
Oxford illustrated Jane Austen volume 2
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Lexile measure:
1090L
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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A novel of manners about the romantic 'pas de deux' between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, two perfectly suited lovers who, at first, find each other insufferable. Despite Elizabeth's negative feelings about Darcy, fate seems determined to keep throwing this pair together, and Darcy, almost in spite of himself, will make revelations that will end up causing Elizabeth to question everything she believes. Set in a time when marrying well was...

3. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Little women collection volume 1
Puffin in bloom
Children's library
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Lexile measure:
1230L
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

4. A game of thrones

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Author:
Martin, George R. R.
Series:
Song of ice and fire volume 1
Lexile measure:
830L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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A tale of court intrigues in the land of Seven Kingdoms, a country "blessed by golden summers that go on for years, and cursed by cruel winters that can last a generation." Treachery, murder, incest. "Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister...

5. Emma

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Classic literature with classical music.Classic fiction
The novels of Jane Austen volume 4
The Oxford illustrated Jane Austen volume 4
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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"She wished she might be able to keep him from an absolute declaration. That would be so very painful a conclusion of their present acquaintance! and yet, she could not help rather anticipating something decisive. She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a something to alter her present composed and tranquil state."

6. Northanger Abbey

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
World's best reading
Classic collection
Barnes and Noble classics
Jane Austen Children's Stories
Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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While enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully expecting to become embroiled in a Gothic adventure of intrigue and suspense - and, once there, soon begins to form the most gruesome and improbable theories about the exploits of its occupants.An early...

7. Wuthering Heights

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Author:
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Signature classics
Penguin classics deluxe edition
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Lexile measure:
880L
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...

8. The Chilbury ladies' choir: a novel

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Author:
Ryan, Jennifer
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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"As England becomes enmeshed in the early days of World War II and the men are away fighting, the women of Chilbury village forge an uncommon bond. They defy the Vicar's stuffy edicts to close the choir and instead "carry on singing," resurrecting themselves as the Chilbury Ladies' Choir. An enchanting ensemble story that shuttles from village intrigue to romance to the heartbreaking matters of life and death. Jennifer Ryan's debut novel thrillingly...

9. The hunchback of Notre-Dame

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Author:
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
Series:
Timeless Classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Bantam fifty volume F1526
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Lexile measure:
1170L
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"The hidden force of fate is symbolized by the superhuman grandeur and multitudinous imageries of the cathedral. 'The first part ... is a panorama of medieval life--religious, civic, popular, and criminal--drawn with immense learning and an amazing command of spectacular effect. These elements are then set into motion in a fantastic and grandiose drama, of which the personages are romantic sublimations of human virtues and passions--Quasimodo the...

10. The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

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Author:
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
Series:
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 13
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency volume 13
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Precious Ramotswe is back and, as usual, her plate is full! She's called in to tackle a mysterious disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter's school...Her infinitely trustworthy assistant, Grace Makutsi, is having trouble adjusting to wedded bliss, a problem to test even the formidable talents of Mma Ramotswe...And the estimable Clovis Andersen, author of The Principles of Private Investigation--the No. 1 Ladies' prized manual--has arrived, right...

11. Mounting fears

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Author:
Woods, Stuart
Series:
Will Lee
Lee Family saga
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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President Will Lee is having a rough week. There are some loose nukes in Pakistan that might just trigger World War III if his diplomatic efforts fall short. It's up to Lee, Holly Barker, Lance Cabot, and few others to save the world--and the upcoming election. Available in a tall Premium Edition.

12. Midnight in the garden of good and evil: a Savannah story

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Author:
Berendt, John, 1939-
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review • 30th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by the Author.

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13. Framley Parsonage

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Author:
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882
Series:
Chronicles of Barsetshire volume 4
Barsetshire novels
Language:
English
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The enduring love story and satirical comedy by a master of the English novel. A young vicar's ambition drives him into a costly bargain in this classic tale from one of the Victorian era's finest novelists. Set in rural England in the fictitious county of Barsetshire, the fourth novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire brilliantly examines the intersection of romance and social class. Mark Robarts is a young, ambitious vicar from the village of Framley,...

14. Lady Windermere's fan

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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Language:
English
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Sparkling repartee enlivens this witty comedy in which a model of social rectitude learns from an unexpected source the difference between true morality and its appearance.

15. The Arctic fury

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Author:
Macallister, Greer
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions. Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the expedition...

16. Garden of lies

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Author:
Quick, Amanda
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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"When Ursula Kern, proprietor of the Kern Secretarial Agency, discovers the body of one of her best secretaries, she immediately suspects murder. But no one, including the police, believes her. So Ursula seeks the help of her newest and most mysterious client, Slater Roxton"--

17. The pillars of the earth

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Author:
Follett, Ken
Series:
Kingsbridge volume 1
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time—the twelfth century;...

18. The tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Author:
Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849
Series:
Wildside classic
Complete Brontë Sisters Children's Collection
The Complete Bronte Sisters Children's Collection
Lexile measure:
590L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when...

19. The age of innocence

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Author:
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Series:
Collectors' Library
Modern Library classics
Modern library of the world's best books
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Newland Archer is a proper New York gentleman, and part of a society which adheres to strict social codes. Newland marries May Welland, a young woman whose upbringing has made her the perfect wife. When Newland meets May's cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, who has left her husband in Europe and now wants a divorce, he finds himself utterly captivated by her. Both Ellen and Newland, however, are products of their upbringing and their culture, and...

20. Daisy Miller and other stories

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Author:
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Lexile measure:
1080L
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First published in "Cornhill Magazine" in 1878, "Daisy Miller" is Henry James' novella, which concerns the courtship of its titular character, the beautiful young American girl Daisy Miller. While travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy is taken by the delightfulness of the continent, which unlike her brother, she finds superior to their hometown of Schenectady, New York. Her brother introduces her to Frederick Winterbourne, whom she agrees to...
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