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Everyman's library volume 1
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English
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Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
Mr. Bennet, owner of the Longbourn estate in Hertfordshire, has five daughters, but his property is entailed and can only be passed to a male...
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English
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By the bestselling author of Must Love Dogs, the story of two grown-up sisters who fight like cats andd dogs — but call each other at least twice a day
When Must Love Dogs was published, the Chicago Tribune called it "pitch-perfect" and the Washington Post declared, "Readers will hope that Claire Cook will be telling breezy summer stories from the South Shore of Massachusetts for seasons to come." Luckily for her legions
...5) The window
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English
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After her twin sister Anna falls to her death while sneaking out her bedroom window, high school sophomore Jess tries to learn everything she can about the sister she thought she knew and soon discovers that her twin kept many dark secrets.
6) Dreamland
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English
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After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
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The Penderwicks volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
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English
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Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students-- a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced his crooked walk. Not much later,...
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The Penderwicks volume 3
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English
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When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick.
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Catapult
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English
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This fiercely original debut novel follows four Nigerian siblings over the course of two decades as they search for agency, love, and meaning in a society rife with hypocrisy.
“. . . lush, sharp, and shot through with hope!" —Well-Read Black Girl
I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone.
Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike...
“. . . lush, sharp, and shot through with hope!" —Well-Read Black Girl
I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone.
Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike...
15) Home
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English
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"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
Frank is an angry, broken veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. He is shocked out of his apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and taker her back to the small Georgia town them come from and that he's hated all his life.
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Series
Charles Jenkins novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
19) Minor prophets
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After their mother's death, Lee and his sister escape their horrible stepfather by fleeing to their grandmother's farm, where Lee hopes to discover the truth behind his haunting visions.
20) Pine Island home
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Pine Island volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
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Orphaned and alone, the four McCready sisters, aged eight to fourteen, move to a house off the coast of British Columbia left them by their great aunt, and get by with the help of neighbors.
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