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Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 1
Mary Russell novel volume 1
Mary Russell novel volume 01
Mary Russell novel volume 1
Mary Russell novel volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
The superlatives keep piling up for mystery fiction's most acclaimed revival: "Erudite, fascinating - by all means the most successful recreation of the famous inhabitant of 221B Baker Street," applauded the Houston Chronicle, and the Denver Post agreed: "We bow to a writer who can take a literary icon of this magnitude and make him fresh and real." Now the spellbinding series that "has the power to charm the most grizzled Baker Street Irregular"...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.Mansfield Park was written just after Pride and Prejudice, offering an opposite view of the world and bringing a very modern perspective...
3) Persuasion
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
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At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant...
4) Emma
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of the timeless classic, Emma, the story of the well-meaning matchmaker of High bury village. Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin's series adds elaborately designed ephemera, such as letters, invitations, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
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...
6) 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
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"It's 1830s England, and Culinarians--doyens who consult with society's elite to create gorgeous food and confections--are the creme de la creme of high society... When Penelope and Helena meet Elijah, a golden opportunity arises: to pull off a project never seen before, and turn Elijah from a street vendor to a gentleman chef. But Elijah's transformation will have a greater impact on this trio than they originally realize--and mayhem, unseemly faux...
8) Middlemarch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 64
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English
Description
"George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career;...
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Steampunk chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne and her "straynge band of mysfits" have journeyed from London to America to rescue their friend Jasper, hauled off by bounty hunters. But Jasper is in the clutches of a devious former friend demanding a trade ; the dangerous device Jasper stole from him for the life of the girl Jasper loves. One false move from Jasper and the strange clockwork collar around Mei's neck tightens. And tightens. From the rough streets of...
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Coleccioun "Libros de bolsillo Z" volume num. 18
Punto de lectura volume 222
Colección Clásicos ilustrados
Punto de lectura volume 222
Colección Clásicos ilustrados
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Language
Español
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Description
"A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de la época: las peripecias de una dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la región, los vaivenes sentimentales de éstas, el oportunismo de un clérigo adulator...El trazado de los caracteres y el análisis de las relaciones humanas sometidas a un rígido...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
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Description
"Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbevilles, and meeting her "cousin" Alec proves to be her downfall. When Angel Clare offers her love and salvation, she must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future."--from NoveList.
13) Jane Eyre
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
HL 450L
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre is the story of the life of its titular protagonist, Jane Eyre, starting with her abusive childhood in Gateshead Hall, and continuing with her challenging education at Lowood School, her time as governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her mysterious employer, Mr. Rochester, her time in the Moor House, where she is courted by her earnest but cold cousin, St. John Rivers, and finally with her reunion with Rochester. Jane...
14) The moonstone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion. Hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels,"...
15) After you
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Me before you volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"After the transformative six months she spent with Will Traynor, Louisa Clark is struggling without him. And when an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Reluctantly, she joins the Moving On support group and meets the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will's...
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