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1) Adam Bede
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Everyman's library volume 59
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English
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Originally published in 1859, "Adam Bede" is the first novel by George Eliot, which was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Eliot was one of the leading British writers of the Victorian era, as well as a noted journalist, poet, and translator. "Adam Bede" concerns a small, tight-knit, and fictional rural community called Hayslope and the romantic drama that develops between four of its young residents: the title character Adam, a young carpenter, the...
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English
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Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as "Prom Mom"-the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her to pursue the girl he really liked. But when circumstances bring Amber back to the city, she realizes she can have a second chance-as long as she stays away from Joe,...
3) Beloved
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave...
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English
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It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. She is a gifted and important resource for the women of her hardscrabble community, a position earned through wisdom and trust. Most women in Swandyke couldn't even imagine getting through their pregnancy and labor without Gracy by their sides. But everything changes when a baby is found dead--and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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The discovery of a dead infant shakes Lancaster County to its core. Circumstantial evidence suggest that 18-year-old Katie, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the mother, took the newborn's life. Attorney Ellie Hathaway faces a system of justice very different from her own.
7) Escape
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English
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Manhattan D.A. Roger Butch Karp and his crime-fighting crew must race against the clock to stop a malicious terrorist plot that could change the course of history.
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Publisher
Distributed in the U.S.A. by Firefly Press (US)
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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In this novel based on the cases of three murderous "baby farmers" of the 1890s, a nine-year-old girl suspects that her "Mama" is not truly her mother and that the infants she has taken in lately have not died of natural causes.
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 15
Publisher
[Distributed exclusively by] Recorded Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2012], �2012
Language
English
Description
Temperance Brennan and long-time flame Detective Ryan are on a case involving the deaths of three infant siblings in Montreal. When the children's mother takes off in the middle of the investigation, Tempe and Ryan must join forces with a Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant--a man with whom Tempe shares a past--to get to the bottom of the sinister case.
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