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Almost one hundred years after the death of Jane Austen, William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh published Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters. A Family Record (1913). The book lovingly details Jane's birth, childhood, adolescence, and maturity, the everyday minutiae of her life, the circumstances in which she wrote her juvenilia and her six novels, and her early death. Using Jane Austen's own letters, additional letters sent between a...
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Austenland novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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"Jane Hayes has a lot going for her - a good career in New York City, a decent apartment, really fabulous hair - but her love life leaves something to be desired. It might have something to do with her secret obsession with 'Pride and Prejudice', the BBC adaptation, the one with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. How could any real man compare? She might just give up on men forever. But when a great-aunt bequeaths her a paid vacation to a special resort for...
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Jane Austen mysteries (Stephanie Barron) volume 2
Jane Austen mystery volume 2
Jane Austen mystery volume 02
Jane Austen mystery volume 2
Jane Austen mystery volume 02
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Writer Jane Austen's family goes for a holiday by the sea. The carriage overturns and they find shelter in a manor whose owner, Geoffrey Sidmouth, is suspected of being a smuggler. The Napoleonic Wars are on so smuggling is a big business. The local customs man asks Jane to carry out an undercover investigation. A sequel to Jane and the Unpleasantness of Scargave Manor.
4) Heartstone
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Heartstone volume 1
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"A debut novel that retells Pride and Prejudice in a world where creatures are dragons, hobgoblins, lamias, and gryphons are commonplace, HEARTSTONE takes Austen's classic tale and turns it into something new, engaging, and imaginative"--
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"Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel."--
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The year is 1795 and the feisty 20-year-old Jane Austen is an emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. As a prospective match for Jane, her parents are eyeing Mr. Wisley. He is the nephew to the very formidable,...
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A Memoir of Jane Austen is the Austen family's memoir of the beloved 19th century English novelist. Written and compiled by Austen's nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen reveals the author as her family knew her, while at the same time protecting the author's privacy in keeping with the Victorian conventions of the time. A Memoir of Jane Austen did, however, reveal for the first time Austen's authorship of such classic stories...
8) Pride and prejudice and zombies: the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
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1070L
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Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an audacious retelling of English literature's most enduring novel. This expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem begins when a mysterious plague falls upon the quiet English village of Meryton-and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth...
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"Fans of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris. Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people...
10) Longbourn
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930L
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The servants at Longbourn estate, only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen's classic, take center stage in Jo Baker's lively, cunning new novel. Here are the Bennets as we have never known them: seen through the eyes of those scrubbing the floors, cooking the meals, emptying the chamber pots. Our heroine is Sarah, an orphaned housemaid beginning to chafe against the boundaries of her class. When the militia marches into town, a new footman arrives...
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Austenland novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Enjoying a vacation at a theme resort where employees and guests dress like characters from Jane Austen's novels, Charlotte wonders if she has stumbled on a murder scene when her hosts behave suspiciously.--NoveList.
12) Mary B: a novel
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[2018]
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The overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice c asts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel. I will tell you the story of how I knew myself to be plain and therefore devoid of the one virtue which it behooves every woman to have. What is to be done with Mary Bennet? She possesses neither the beauty of her eldest sister, Jane, nor the high-spirited charm of second-born Lizzy. Even...
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A profile of the life and times of Jane Austen by the best-selling author of Courtiers tours the classic author's childhood home, schools, holiday accommodations and grand and small family estates to reveal lesser-known aspects of Austen's character and inspirations.
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1150L
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An annotated version of Jane Austen's novel in which a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. Includes historical context, citations, definitions, comments and analysis, maps, illustrations, and more.
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"[An] excellent biography of Austen. . . . Highly recommended for Janeites like me!" —Colleen Coble, USA Today–bestselling author of The Lightkeeer's Daughter
Jane Austen is famous for such books as Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Now learn about the author's journey through a life spent making up stories that touched the lives of millions.
Jane Austen is now what she never was in...
Jane Austen is famous for such books as Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Now learn about the author's journey through a life spent making up stories that touched the lives of millions.
Jane Austen is now what she never was in...
16) Central Park
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Ethan Summers captivates Francine's youthful heart. Drawn together by a love of learning, they become friends. But Francine dreams that Ethan will return her love. When Lylleth appears, Francine is dismayed that Ethan falls under her spell. When a wealthy man comes calling, Francine recognizes his lack of morals and rejects him. Pressured by her uncle to accept such a fortuitous match, Francine cries out to God. Will she marry someone she doesn't...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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870L
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"Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author. Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television shows and mini-series, literary anthologies, and many other adaptations all around the world. Her writing--principally her five novels--is a critique of the British landed...
18) Jane Austen
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This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic biography of one the greatest English novelists. It illustrates not only the character and opinions of an unusually perceptive and gifted woman, but also the social life amongst the county gentry of Georgian England. Outside her writing, Jane Austen's main interest was her large and affectionate family and their circle of friends. This is the world she so brilliantly...
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2013.
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A literary scholar poses twenty questions that reveal deep truths about the iconic writer and her lasting influence, demonstrating how Austen's genius can be better appreciated with an understanding of her books' character dynamics, unspoken sexuality, and period conventions.
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