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Book cover for "Where the library hides".
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Set in 1885, Inez marries Whitford in order to stay in Egypt and continue searching for her parents, but she wonders if their love can endure the secrets buried under the city of Alexandria.
Book cover for "The Briar Club".
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4.3 stars
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era"--
Book cover for "I spy Fly Guy!".
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Lexile measure:
310L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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While playing hide-and-seek with Buzz, Fly Guy is taken away by a garbage man. Is Fly Guy gone forever?
Book cover for "Treasure Island".
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Lexile measure:
1070L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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An innkeeper's son finds a treasure map that leads him to a pirate's fortune. Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. "Treasure Island" has enthralled readers for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are pieces of folklore for as long as children read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. Illustrations.
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4 stars
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"When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it's up to a fastidious maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty."-- Provided by publisher.; "Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection, her world is turned upside down when...
Book cover for "The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe".
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Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
Book cover for "Rosie Revere, engineer".
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Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 780L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
Book cover for "Dracula".
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this hardcover Dover Bookshelf edition of the chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula"-- "By night, Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) navigated the flourishing world of Victorian theater, yet, in the shadows, he was the brilliant mind behind the chilling vampire masterpiece Dracula, a tale of insatiable hunger...
Book cover for "The lost years".
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When an aging biblical scholar is fatally shot after revealing his possession of a unique parchment believed to have been written by Jesus, Father Aiden O'Brien investigates the victim's suspicions that a close friend was responsible, a case that is complicated by circumstances implicating the man's Alzheimer's victim wife.
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Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
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Villette (1853) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was the third and final novel she published in her lifetime, followed only by The Professor, her posthumously released first novel, which was largely reconceived and rewritten as Villette. Inspired by Brontë's experience traveling and teaching English in Brussels, where she went at the age of 26 with her sister Emily before returning alone the following year, Villette is the story...
Book cover for "All the sinners bleed".
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4 stars
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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
Book cover for "The jungle book".
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Lexile measure:
1080L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
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Seven stories of the human baby brought up by the wolves and taught the Law of the Jungle by the bear and his animal friends. Includes also songs or chants of the animals.
Book cover for "The thirty nine steps".
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Lexile measure:
1000L
Language:
English
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May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay's life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine...
Book cover for "Little Dorrit".
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Lexile measure:
800L
Language:
English
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Recounts the reversals of fortune of Amy Dorrit, the youngest daughter of a man who has spent half his life in debtor's prison, and her circle of family and friends, whose efforts to lead their lives are forever undermined by the clumsy British bureaucracy.
Book cover for "Northanger Abbey".
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Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"When seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand and forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she allows the Gothic novels she's obsessed with to fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Determined to...
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3.4 stars
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"Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It's not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. And everyone is watching you. As the headmaster credited with turning around the local school, Tom Fitzwilliam is beloved by one and all--including Joey Mullen, his new neighbor, who...
Book cover for "A constellation of vital phenomena".
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English
Average Rating:
2 stars
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In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
Book cover for "The phantom of the opera".
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Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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During Christine's childhood, which is described retrospectively in the early chapters of the book, her father tells her many stories featuring an 'Angel of Music', who, like a muse, is the personification of musical inspiration. On his deathbed, Christine's father tells her that from Heaven, he will send the Angel of Music to her. Christine is eventually given a position in the chorus at the Paris Opera House. Not long after she arrives there, she...
Book cover for "The secret garden".
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Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Classics. This is an exquisite leatherbound edition of a much-loved children's classic that will be cherished by all ages. It is suitable for children aged 10 to 13 years old. On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle's estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. She cultivates the garden, an experience that both improves her health and raises her spirits. And it proves...
Book cover for "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other stories".
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Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Dr. Jekyll is a kind and generous professional of the highest rank, and yet within him is a malevolent soul who desires the freedom to pursue his most barbarous conceits without consequence. This is not only the story of good and evil but of the hypocrisy through which one denies the other. Dr. Jekyll has developed a chemical potion which allows a separation to occur between the two natures present in everyone. By isolating the dichotomous qualities...