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Author
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
The early death of a small town councilman reveals deep-rooted conflicts in the seemingly idyllic community of Pagford, which rapidly deteriorates in the face of cultural disputes, generation clashes, and a volatile election.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
26 sound discs (32 hours.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The novel "Little Dorrit", published originally between 1855 and 1857, is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens'...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
323p. 23cm.
Language
English
Description
By bestselling British writer Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree is a sweeping, romantic novel about the women who stayed behind in World War II.
It is the summer of 1939, and the residents of the idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war. Beautiful but shy Judy Melton, daughter of a naval hero; her determinedly feckless friend, the social butterfly Meggie Gore-Steward; seemingly demure Mathilda Eastcott, and Rusty Sykes, the...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Caring for a lost child during the chaotic 1940 evacuation of her once-quiet Southampton village, a woman who never believed she wanted children finds herself unexpectedly at a loss when the child is taken away.
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
131 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story.
In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals...
Author
Series
Thursday Murder Club volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a dangerous package goes missing on Boxing Day, the Thursday Murder Club, when one of their own is murdered, take on their most deadly opponents yet.
Author
Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge volume 14
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the horrors she witnessed in France during the enemy invasion of 1914, Lady Elspeth Douglas, a titled young Englishwoman, is transformed by her experience and leaves her sheltered life behind to become a nurse and return to the battlefields of France to do her part.
Author
Series
Flavia de Luce volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
World War I nurse Bess Crawford promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying request to his brother, a request that is treated with skepticism, leading Bess to carry it out herself and put her own life at risk for Arthur's sake.
14) The red door
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the death of a Lancaster woman in the summer of 1920, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge links her demise to the disappearance of a man who was wrongly believed to have gone to serve in World War I.
15) Elegy for Eddie
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Eddie Pettit's death is ruled an accident by the police, many believe that this gentle soul was murdered and Maisy Dobbs, determined to do right by Eddie, searches for the truth amid the working-class of Lambeth.
16) The murder stone
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
352p. 25cm.
Language
English
18) Warlight
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
19) A single thread
Author
Language
English
Description
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiance, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Exposed to fashionable society and romance--as well as clues about her mother--Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of a local apothecary, is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father's bedside to save the family legacy at a time when women are forbidden to work as apothecaries and the suspicious eyes of a scholarly physician and a competing apothecary are upon her.