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Of the complex, richly rewarding masterworks he wrote in the last decade of his life, Little Dorrit is the book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society. Crammed with persons and incidents in whose recreation nothing is accidental or spurious, containing, in its picture of the Circumlocution Office, the most witheringly exact satire of a bureaucracy we possess, Little Dorrit is a stunning...
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John Shefford had found a new life with Fay Larkin. When she was charged with murder, the easy part was breaking her out of jail. After that he had the posse to worry about, violent bands of Indians, a murderous trek across a trackless waste, and a brutal passage through white water hell.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
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Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. Lassiter, a gunglinging avenger in black, shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will.
4) Kidnapped
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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HL 480L
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In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
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Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius. Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic vision, he leaves London for Paris and Tahiti, and in his quest makes sacrifices that leave the lives of those closest to him in tatters. Through...
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IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 41
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The Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the exploits of Fabrizio del Dongo, an ardent young aristocrat who joins Napoleon's army just before the Battle of Waterloo. Yet perhaps the novel's most unforgettable characters are the hero's beautiful aunt, the alluring Duchess of Sanseverina, and her lover, Count Mosca, who plot to further Fabrizio's political career at the treacherous court of Parma in a sweeping story that illuminates an entire epoch of European...
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Uncovering a governmental conspiracy to frame a friend for murder puts David Balfour on the run and striving to protect the woman he's come to love.
Released with the title David Balfour when originally released in the United States, Catriona is Robert Louis Stevenson's follow-up to Kidnapped. David Balfour, hero of both books, is made a target by his willingness to testify in favor of a friend falsely accused of murder. His stubborn sense of justice...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. When Evan MacIan, a fervent Catholic, becomes enraged by an atheist newspaper, he challenges the editor, James Turnbull, to a duel. Turnbull, just as passionate in his atheism as MacIan is in his Catholicism, eagerly accepts. Their sword fight interrupted wherever they go, MacIan and Turnbull duel with words. The more MacIan and Turnbull debate, the more they realize...
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2009
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Swashbuckling adventure ensues in Georges, a riveting novel from the same author that wrote The Three Musketeers. In Georges, Alexandre Dumas pulls out all the stops for this story of passion, identity, and racism.A sensitive boy of mixed race, Georges Munier moves within the highest ranks of social circles in France and England before returning to the Indian Ocean...
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2009
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Readers who were enticed by The Martian Tales Trilogy will delight even more in the fourth and fifth installments in Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian Tales series, Thuvia, Maid of Mars and Chessmen of Mars. The hero of the first three novels, the earthling John Carter, has faded into the background, yielding the stage to his Martian-born children-his son, Carthoris, is the hero of Thuvia, Maid of Mars, and his daughter,
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Three beloved nineteenth-century classics featuring pirate adventures, sparring knights, and gothic chills.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: In this timeless gothic horror novella, the upstanding Dr. Jekyll is plagued by his association with the mysterious and murderous brute Mr. Hyde-until the shocking truth of the doctor's dual nature is revealed.
Treasure Island: This classic adventure novel tells the story of young Jim Hawkins, who...
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Hellboy Universe Essentials volume 1
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English
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Jump on to the B.P.R.D. series and jump in to the horror-fueled adventure with this introductory volume!
Meet Abe Sapien, a senior agent in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He and his fellow uncanny agents Liz Sherman, Roger the homunculus, and Johann Kraus uncover his occult origins while try to stop a plague of monstrous frog men. As it begins its spread across America, an apocalyptic new direction to Mignola's stories opens up....
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Take a bite of the Hellboy universe with the creator's hand-picked essential stories in this new jumping-on point collection!
Confront the undead, swim to strange places, and encounter powerful fey in this introduction to the world of Hellboy. Newcomers to the series needn't have read the original stories to jump right in and see what Hellboy is all about thanks to this collection of short stories, selected by Mike Mignola himself as the perfect...
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Hellboy Universe Essentials volume 1
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English
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Lobster Johnson has long been an idol of Hellboy's, helping to shape the B.P.R.D.'s most famous agent into the occult crime-fighting professional we know and love. But was the Lobster real? Or just a story, a myth? Delve into the enigma known as the Lobster with this story, hand-picked by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola as the perfect jumping-on point for new Lobster Johnson readers! With writing by Mignola and John Arcudi, art by Tonci Zonjic, and colors...
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Hellboy Universe Essentials volume 1
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English
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Hellboy Universe Essentials: Witchfinder chronicles one of Sir Edward Grey's first cases as an agent of the queen, an occult mystery that takes Grey from the sparkling echelons of Victorian London to its dark underbelly in his inaugural clash with the city's most infamous secret society: The Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra. Hellboy universe creator Mike Mignola has hand-picked this series of Hellboy Universe Essentials adventures for new readers. Dive...
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