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Series
Language
English
Description
Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers an inspiring portrait of the extraordinary high school football team whose quest for perfection sustains Smith Center, Kansas, its hometown in the heartland.
Author
Series
Keeping the castle volume 1
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Althea is the sole support of her entire family, and she must marry well. But there are few wealthy suitors—or suitors of any kind—in their small Yorkshire town of Lesser Hoo. Then, the young and attractive (and very rich) Lord Boring arrives, and Althea sets her plans in motion. There's only one problem; his friend and business manager Mr. Fredericks keeps getting in the way. And, as it turns out, Fredericks has his own set...
Author
Series
Keeping the castle volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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In the early 1800s, in a remote corner of England with almost no eligible young men, the eight students at the Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to become a good wife.
Author
Series
Lost journals of Ven Polypheme volume 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This comedy of manners follows newlyweds Wilfred Price and Flora Myffanwy as they navigate married life, while Wilfred and his first wife, Grace, try to manage secrets from their shared past.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a series of journal entries, Jenny Cooper describes her stay with cousin Jane Austen in the 1790s, and her entrance into Jane's world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip, and romance.
Author
Series
Keeping the castle volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In order to support her family and maintain their ancient castle in Lesser Hoo, seventeen-year-old Althea bears the burden of finding a wealthy suitor who can remedy their financial problems.
10) The countryside
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Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes daily life in the countryside of England during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), from the poor, to the middle classes, to the upper classes"--Provided by publisher.
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