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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, a suspenseful new novel about an idyllic town in Maine dealing with the suspicious death of one of their own--and her best "summer" friend, who is trying to uncover the truth...before fingers point her way"--
24) The Elite
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Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection--but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies"--
25) The kite runner
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
26) Falling Angels
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In 1901 London, as the precise social order of the Victorian era winds down and the forward-looking Edwardian order takes wing, three strangers meet in the city's stony Highgate Cemetery. Beautiful Lavinia revels in the elaborate trappings of the past. Plain Maude strives to shape the future. Simon Fields, a boy their age, is bound by poverty and professional to the cemetery.As they explore the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, they bring...
28) Ravencliffe
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ava Hall continues to learn more about herself and her heritage through her work in a New York City settlement house as well as through her social obligations with the Blythewood girls.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
787 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing."--Publisher.
31) Starcrossed
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In a kingdom dominated by religious intolerance, sixteen-year-old Digger, a street thief, has always avoided attention, but when she learns that her friends are plotting against the throne she must decide whether to join them or turn them in.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
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pages cm.
Description
A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
400 p.
Description
In a reimagining of life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaw's loyal servant, young Nelly Dean suffers heartache and betrayals at the hands of those she cherishes most and discovers what it is to know true sacrifice after a new heir is born.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In a tale set against a backdrop of pre-World War II turbulence in England and Edward VIII's scandalous affair, a fatherless chauffeur shares an undeclared love with a complex Oxford undergraduate, a housekeeper hides her Nazi sympathies and a woman struggles with escalating tensions in her friendship with Wallace Simpson.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
519 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Eschewed by her wealthy Smith College classmates, a former scholarship student reluctantly volunteers to join a group of graduates who travel to Europe to help World War I French civilians before finding herself surrounded by desperate families in villages decimated by German bombs.
37) Yesterday
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"How do you solve a murder when you can only remember yesterday? Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day's worth of memory; elite Duos have two. In this stratified society, where Monos are excluded from holding high office and demanding jobs, Claire and Mark are a rare mixed marriage. Clare is a conscientious Mono housewife, Mark a novelist-turned-politician...
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Series
House of Falconer volume 2
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James Lionel Falconer has become the right-hand man of the head of London's most prestigious shipping company. Can James continue to be the master of his own fate, even after entering the lion's den?
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
151 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"At an English country estate in 1924, an afternoon tryst between Jane, a neighboring servant girl, and Paul, the young man of the estate, marks the end of a secret love affair of about six years. Jane's narrative moves back and forth from 1924 to the end of the century to reveal a remarkable woman"--
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. The houseowners, Ruth and G. H., arrive in the middle of the night in a panic. They say a sudden blackout has swept the city: the TV and internet are down, and no cell phone service. Is the vacation...
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