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1) A tale of two cities

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

The Nonesuch Dickens
First Avenue Classics
Greenwich House classics library
Chartwell classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27

Lexile measure

HL 870L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript

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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...

2) Wuthering heights

Author

Brontë, Emily

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23

Lexile measure

880L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway

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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...

3) Sense and sensibility

Author

Austen, Jane

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22

Lexile measure

1180L

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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Sense and Sensibility is one of the best loved of Jane Austen's novels, populated by great comic creations like Mrs. Jennings, the unscrupulous cad Willoughby, and guileless and artful women. As ever, Austen suffuses her work with great ironic observation and tremendous wit, producing a masterpiece of romantic entanglement that time and a very different set of mores cannot diminish. Sense and Sensibility was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be...

4) A girl of the Limberlost

Author

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Series

Chapter book charmers
Library of Indiana classics
Signet classic
Limberlost volume 02

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18

Lexile measure

850L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript

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Elnora Comstock's first day at high school is a disaster. The other students laugh at her clothes, and then -- to make matters worse -- she learns she has to pay for her books and tuition. --- [Excerpt from back cover.]

5) It ends with us

Author

Hoover, Colleen

Series

Thorndike Press Large Print softcover romance and women's fiction
[It ends with us] volume 01

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15

Language

English

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NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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"Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant....

6) ... Anna Karenina

Author

Tolstoy, Leo

Series

Oxford world's classics
[Literary Guild]
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
First Avenue Classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 69

Lexile measure

1080L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

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Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, this book is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures...

7) Freckles

Author

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Series

Library of Indiana classics
Limberlost
Puffin classics
Dover children's evergreen classics

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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Set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana, “Freckles” is American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter's 1904 novel about the titular character, a one-handed adult orphan who takes a job guarding timber in the swamp. Freckles has lived all his life in a Chicago orphanage and has been missing his right hand as long as he can remember. Now an adult, he is hired on by the Grand Rapids lumber company to guard their valuable timber in the Limberlost...

8) The lucky one

Author

Sparks, Nicholas

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14

Lexile measure

HL 780L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories.