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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A richly imagined novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family by the #1 International bestselling-author of Miss Austen.
On January 21, 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. At thirty-one years old, she has no previous experience of either teaching or fine country houses. Her mother has died, and she has nowhere else to go. Anne...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
First published in 1899 by American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen, "The Theory of the Leisure Class" is a classic and important examination of the economics of the upper classes and the impact that their habits have upon society at the end of the 19th century. In this work, Veblen, influenced by the work of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Adam Smith, contends that the evolutionary development of human society is the basis for our modern...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Drix thought his life was over. But the opportunity to get his life on track came with the Second Chance Program, the governor's newest initiative to get delinquents off the streets and back into society. Now he's the program's poster child. Elle, the governor's daughter, knows she lives a life of privilege. But the expectations and pressure may be too much to handle. She wants to follow her own path, whatever that means. Their connectionc is immediate,...
204) Insurgent
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015], c2015
Edition
[English/Spanish dialogue version]
Language
English
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris₂s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past...
205) A secret princess
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
10th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training.
209) Worldshaker
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, he discovers how ignorant he is of his home and its residents.
Author
Publisher
RazorBill
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
South Carolina high school senior Nat has worked hard to put her trailer-park past behind her, and when she and her boyfriend are crowned Palmetto Prince and Princess everything would be perfect, except that a prank they played a few nights before went horribly awry.
212) Allegiant
Publisher
Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...
Author
Series
Girls of paper and fire series volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, but soon learn that freedom comes with a terrible cost. Lei, the naive country girl who became a royal courtesan, is now known as the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel Demon King wasn't the end of the plan---it's just the beginning. Now Lei...
214) The Liars Society
Author
Series
Liars Society volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she's never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre. He's...
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 7
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1384 England, seventeen-year-old Evangeline, ward and cousin of King Richard II, tries to escape from an arranged marriage, dreaming of a life outside Berkhamsted Castle, where she might be free to marry for love and not politics, but when she runs away and joins a small band of servants on their way back to their home village, she finds herself embroiled in a tangled web that threatens England's monarch.
216) Burning midnight
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teens Sully, Hunter, Dom, and Mandy team up in a race against unscrupulous billionaire CEO Alex Holliday to locate a collectible sphere, which may have a very steep price.
No one knows where the brilliant-colored spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at math, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the greater the improvement--...
217) The prince
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
THE PRINCE (Italian: Il Principe) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before...
218) Miss Julie
Publisher
Wrekin Hill
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A wealthy aristocrat and her father's valet's innocent flirtation turns into a heated and dangerous affair that tests the boundaries of class and desire.
219) Outside in
Author
Series
Insiders (Maria Snyder) volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
After leading a victorious rebellion against the Uppers, Trella is forced to continue her leadership role and must help her people face a threat from outside their cube.
220) Hannah
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.
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