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2) Towards zero
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
233 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The big house on the cliff, the large party composed of relatives and in-laws at odds with one another, plus a couple of mysterious and possibly good-fornothing male visitors.
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A story of a Catholic priest who was murdered after hearing a dying woman's confession. On his body was discovered a list of names, mysterious in that the people had nothing in common; yet, Mark Easterbrook came to discover a connection upon investigation.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Random House offers a related online "Reader's guide" with discussion questions and suggested further reading by selecting the desired title at http://www.ReadingGroupCenter.com . "On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping...
7) Silks
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason agrees to counsel jockey, Steve Mitchell, who has been accused of killing another rider and soon finds himself involved in a web of lies and violence.
Author
Series
Language
English
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The Morel family, who live on the Nottinghamshire coalfields, are beset with conflict. Gertrude has become disillusioned with her inarticulate working-class husband and devotes her energies to her sons. Son Paul falls in love and seeks to escape his family ties.
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Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Lawrence's earlier novel 'The Rainbow' (1915), Women in Love continues the story of the Brangwen sisters in the coal-mining town of Beldover. Based in part on Lawrence's own stormy marriage to German aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen, the tale is charged with intense feelings and psychological insights as it focuses on the relationships of the two sisters--Ursula, who deeply loves and eventually marries a school inspector; and Gudrun, who...
10) Mary Poppins
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Series
Language
English
Description
A blast of wind, a house-rattling bang, and Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane. Quicker than she can close her umbrella, she takes charge of the Banks children--Jane, Michael, and the twins--and she changes their lives forever.
11) Ethan Frome
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Series
Language
English
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Description
On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondrialcal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, and only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered and man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Reserved and snobbish Candida Wilton, newly divorced and estranged from her daughters, moves from her beautiful home in Suffolk to a small flat in a run-down London neighborhood where she sets out to rediscover her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pitt investigates the murder of a maid at Buckingham Palace, narrowing his group of suspects down to several house guests who are meeting with the Prince of Wales to discuss the funding of a huge project: the Cape to Cairo railway. While the Prince might overlook the unfortunate loss of a maid, the Queen, who is due back soon, will likely veto any Royal support in the scheme if she finds out.
16) Bleak House
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Series
Language
English
Description
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
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Language
English
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On a moonlit road in Hampstead, Walter Hartright is accosted by a stranger dressed from head to toe in white, who asks the way to London. Shortly thereafter he is overtaken by a carriage in pursuit of this mysterious woman who has evidently escaped from an asylum. He then unwinds a story of abduction, madness, false identity and shameful family secret.
18) Our lady of pain
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
19) Lie by moonlight
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Hired to teach four orphaned girls at remote, ramshackle Aldwick Castle, Miss Concordia Glade is pleased to find her pupils both eager and bright. Provided for by an unseen benefactor, they are surrounded at all times by hard-eyed guards in the guise of gardeners. During an investigation into a woman's death, private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the castle grounds -- and in the middle of chaos. The building is in flames. People are...
20) Oliver Twist
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Series
Language
English
Description
In tracing the parish boy's progress, Dickens did not write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality, he created a story about the survival of good, and the exploitation of violence.
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