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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Austen tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After...
4) Mister Pip
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (7.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a remote tropical island where villages are overrun by rebel fighting, thirteen-year-old Matilda is introduced to the Charles Dickens classic "Great Expectations" by her white school teacher and becomes enthralled with the story's main character, with whom she feels a connection.
5) Bliss
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss wants to work magic in her family's bakery as her parents do, but when they are called away and Rose and her siblings are left in charge, the magic goes awry and a beautiful stranger tries to talk Rose into giving her the Bliss Cookery Booke.
6) Among others
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to escape a trouble childhood, Morwenna found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels she read and played among the spirits who made their homes in Wales' industrial ruins. Forced into a confrontation with her mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna fled to her father after her twin sister died. Eventually, she and her mother would meet again in a final battle.
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the 10 years since their parents disappeared to protect them. Now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy. First in the Books of Beginning series.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel - a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. Includes readers' guide.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xii, 363 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While the Stupidity Surplus overflows in England, literary detective Thursday Next deals with her defiant assistant, who insists on turning classic literature into reality television, and must also find a way to motivate her teenage son and smooth out the mess being made by the Council of Genres.
11) The borrower
Author
Language
English
Description
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, camped out in the library after hours. Addicted to reading, Ian needs help smuggling books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in antigay classes with Pastor Bob. Desperate to save Ian, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked--and the odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip.
Author
Language
English
Description
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. On Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a falling-out with her mother and disappears from Miranda's life. Sixteen years later she receives news that Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy--and one final scavenger hunt. Home in Los Angeles, Miranda finds clues that Billy...
Author
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Author
Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective and must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.
15) Worlds apart
Author
Series
Story thieves volume 5
Publisher
Alladin
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Owen and Bethany try to find their way back to each other after the fictional and nonfictional worlds are torn apart.
17) Inkheart
Author
Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2003
Physical Desc
14 sound discs (ca. 13 hrs., 35 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community -- an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the second book in the Books of Beginning Trilogy, Michael and Emma must track down the Chronicle of Life, while Kate must find a way back to present day from the year 1899"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 151 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kenny Rabbit tries to save his friend, the dragon, after he is labeled a community nuisance by the simple people of Roundbrook village, who arrange for the creature to be fought by St. George.
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