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1) Persuasion
Author
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed novelist and editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
3) Night fever
Author
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
When Rebecca Cullen's teenaged brother was arrested on drug charges, she had no choice but to appeal to tough-on-drug-offenders D.A. Rourke Kilpatrick. Rourke showed sympathy, concern ... and interest? But as Rebecca was falling for him, how could she be sure he wasn't just using her in his investigation? Could she really trust a man who had the power to destroy her -- and break her heart?
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Angel's View Ranch has always been special to Annelise McCade. Once upon a time, it was her family's land, until her grandfather sold it to billionaire Wallace Sheridan. Now employed as the live-in caretaker, Annie's six-year-old twin niece and nephew recently lost their mother, so Annie tells herself it wouldn't be a problem to bring them to Angel's View. The Sheridans haven't visited in years, not since Wallace died. They would never know the twins...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"It is the summer of 1950 - and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. 'I wish I could...
7) Lapvona
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yet. Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek...
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