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English
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An elderly bachelor and his spinster sister adopt an orphan and are mistakenly sent a girl instead of a boy. The orphan, Anne, remains with the couple, moves from one mishap to another, succeeds academically, and finds love.
"Megan Follows, Tony Award winner Colleen Dewhurst and Academy Award nominee Richard Farnsworth give unparalleled performances in this critically acclaimed motion picture, based on the international best-selling novel. Filmed...
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A young beauty who feels trapped living in the country with her grandfather plots her escape with a dashing suitor. But her plans are shaken when a handsome local man returns from Paris, hoping to make her his bride. Torn by her passion for two men, and a dream she will never abandon, Eustacia Vye learns that fate holds all the answers.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 34
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious stranger appears at the Kansas farm of Jacob and Sarah Witting. The stranger is Jacob's father, John, who abandoned him and his mother when he was a child. Although John establishes relationships with Sarah and his grandchildren, he struggles to reconcile with his son. Third part of a trilogy.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 16
Pub. Date
2006, 1995.
Language
English
Description
August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm--the same fields their family worked as slaves. But his sister, Berniece, refuses to part with it. For her, the piano is their very soul, a legacy of pride...
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English
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Mary Ingles is a Virginia homesteader whose family is suddenly attacked by a Shawnee war party. After Mary is taken captive, the leader of the war party is impressed by her courage and strength, and decides to make her his mate. Mary then makes the dangerous decision to escape the Shawnee village with another captive woman. Together they embark on a harrowing journey through the Virginia wilderness toward freedom and home.
Language
English
Description
Set in a richly portrayed society well-stocked with eccentric nobles and gossipy villagers, this story centers around 17-year-old Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a respected country doctor. The well-ordered world of Molly's childhood is soon to be complicated by new people and unexpected situations. Most devastating is her father's decision to remarry after many years of widowhood. Molly's faltering efforts to cope gracefully with an impossible...
10) The odyssey
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English
Description
Aided by the goddess Athena, warrior-king Odysseus braves the terrors and temptations of a fantastic array of creatures as his return from the Trojan War becomes a decade-long quest to reach his homeland and his faithful wife, Penelope.
13) Les Miserables
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Hugo's story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, who is aided by a good bishop and pursued relentlessly by the fanatical Inspector Javert, expresses the author's humanitarian interest in the suffering of the common people.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Gore Vidal's Lincoln: Reveals the political and personal struggles of President Lincoln as he guided the nation through the Civil War while confronting his own family tragedies.; Appointment with Destiny: Surrender at Appomattox: Lee and Grant were two men not only in the midst of battle, but also facing inner struggles and personal conflicts and find themselves meeting to discuss the terms of surrender.
17) Follow the river
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mary Ingles is a Virginia homesteader whose family is suddenly attacked by a Shawnee war party. After Mary is taken captive, the leader of the war party is impressed by her courage and strength, and decides to make her his mate. Mary then makes the dangerous decision to escape the Shawnee village with another captive woman. Together they embark on a harrowing journey through the Virginia wilderness toward freedom and home.
18) Hamlet
Series
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
Description
Considered the greatest tragedy ever written, and perhaps the greatest murder mystery as well.
19) Lost empires
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
On the eve of World War I, a young man joins his uncle in a magic show and is introduced to the world of a British traveling stage revue.
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