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1. This strange eventful history: a novel

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Author:
Messud, Claire, 1966-
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date:
©2024
Language:
English
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Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.

2. A strange eventful history: the dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and their remarkable families

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Author:
Holroyd, Michael
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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3. A tale of two cities

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Signature classics
Unabridged classics
Barnes and Noble classics
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Lexile measure:
870L
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3 stars
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When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody rebellion, when triumph leads to savage vengeance - does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. Lucie struggles desperately to restore the health of a father driven mad by years of...

4. 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
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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...

5. Kidnapped

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Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Series:
Timeless Classics
Classic collection
Rainbow classics
David Balfour volume 1
Lexile measure:
990L
Average Rating:
3 stars
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In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

6. Leaving time: a novel

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Author:
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
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4.4 stars
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"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment . . . or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her...

7. 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...

8. A portrait of the artist as a young man

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Author:
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Series:
Viking compass edition
Tantor unabridged classics
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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The chronicle of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and young offers an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique.

9. The mystery of Mrs. Christie: a novel

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Author:
Benedict, Marie
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
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2.8 stars
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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...

10. The devil colony: a Sigma Force novel

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Author:
Rollins, James, 1961-
Series:
Sigma Force novel volume 7
Language:
English
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5 stars
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New York Times bestselling thrill-master James Rollins is back with The Devil Colony, another electrifying combination of suspense, history, science, action, and ingenious speculation. In The Devil Colony, Sigma Force stalwarts Painter Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce must investigate a gruesome massacre in the Rocky Mountains and root out a secret cabal that has been manipulating momentous events since the time of the original thirteen colonies....

11. The house of silk: a Sherlock Holmes novel

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Author:
Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-
Series:
Horowitz's Holmes
Language:
English
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4 stars
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It is 1890. A year after Holmes's death, Watson--now in a retirement home--narrates a tale of Sherlockian detection that could tear apart the very fabric of society. The story opens with a train robbery in Boston, and moves to the innocuous setting of Wimbledon.

12. The castle of Otranto: a Gothic story

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Author:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
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English
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When tragedy strikes on his son's wedding day, Lord Manfred believes it is a foreboding omen, and will do whatever it takes to stop it-no matter how immoral. Set in the 18th century, The Castle of Otranto begins on the day Manfred's son, Conrad, was meant to be married. Known for his sickly nature, Conrad is the eldest child of two, and is set to marry Princess Isabella, a union that would reap strong benefits for the noble family. However, when tragedy...

13. The forgotten room: a novel

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Author:
Child, Lincoln
Series:
Jeremy Logan
Language:
English
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4.7 stars
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Enigmalogist Jeremy Logan who specializes in investigating inexplicable phenomena probes strange happenings at the Newport, RI, mansion that houses the Symposikon think tank.

14. A Study in Scarlet

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Author:
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Series:
Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection volume 1
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes volume 1
Lexile measure:
1050L
Language:
English
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In the dimly lit alleys of Victorian London, a dense fog cloaks the city, wrapping its secrets in an enigmatic shroud. The air is thick with anticipation as a mysterious letter arrives at 221B Baker Street, the famed residence of the unparalleled detective, Sherlock Holmes. The sender, a shadowy figure known only as "The Midnight Scribe," beckons Holmes and his ever-loyal companion, Dr. John Watson, into a web of intrigue that will test the limits...

15. The Lair of the White Worm

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Author:
Stoker, Bram
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English
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The Lair of the White Worm (1911) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Published only a year before Stoker's death, The Lair of the White Worm helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of the early-twentieth century. The novel is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm, a story from popular English folklore dating back to at least the 14th century. In 1860, an Australian named Adam Salton is contacted...

16. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other stories

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Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Series:
Detective Story Club
Language:
English
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"London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson is persuaded to investigate the sinister activities of the dastardly Mr Edward Hyde. He becomes convinced that Hyde is blackmailing his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and that a master criminal is at work. To his horror, Utterson discovers that the doctor's own researches into the duality of human nature have unleashed a murderous sociopath and set in motion a deadly chain of events that threatens to overwhelm him."--Front...

17. The house of Dies Drear

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Author:
Hamilton, Virginia, 1934-2002
Series:
Dies Drear Chronicles volume 1
Language:
English
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A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

18. The kingdoms of Savannah

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Author:
Green, George Dawes
Language:
English
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4 stars
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"Savannah may appear to be "some town out of a fable," with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city's history. But look deeper and you'll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It's the story at the heart of George Dawes Green's chilling new novel, The Kingdoms of Savannah. It begins quietly on a balmy Southern night as some locals gather at Bo Peep's, one of the town's favorite watering...

19. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

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Author:
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768
Series:
Modern library of the world's best books
Penguin classics
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Offers the classic story of a young man's experiences since conception and his interpretation of the art of writing.

20. The innocents abroad

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Oxford Mark Twain
Language:
English
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The Innocents Abroad is based on correspondence Twain sent to two newspapers recounting his experiences during five months aboard a cruise ship.
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