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Blood Sport (Orca Soundings)
Par Tash McAdam. 2020
Dreaming in Color (Orca Soundings)
Par Melanie Florence. 2020
Frybread
Par Ferguson Plain. 2003
Dakota's friends had never seen frybread before, so Dakota explains how it is made. Frybread, scone, bannock, or gullet -…
there are as many ways to call it as there is to make it. Grades 2-4 and older readers. 2003.
The elephant's ball
Par Pauline Baynes. 2007
After learning that the creatures of the air had a grand celebration, Elephant, not to be outdone, decides to throw…
an even more glorious ball for the animals of the land. What follows is a story of food, festivities, and fantasy. Grades K-3. 2007, text originally published in 1807.
The grey man (Quick reads)
Par Andrew McNab. 2006
Kevin has spent enough quiet nights in watching TV and decides he'd like a night out. He's not talking about…
a pint and a packet of peanuts down at the local. He's going to attempt to pull off a daring bank roberry single handed. Kevin is about to take a heart-thumping step into the unknown. For junior high readers. 2006.
The old curiosity shop (Everyman Dickens Ser.)
Par Charles Dickens, Paul Schlicke. 1995
Dombey and Son (Penguin English library)
Par Charles Dickens, Peter Fairclough. 1848
This novel was published in 20 monthly installments during 1846-48 and in book form in 1848. It was a crucial…
novel in Dickens development, a product of more thorough planning and maturer thought than his earlier serialized books. The title character, Mr. Dombey, is a wealthy shipping merchant whose wife dies giving birth to their second child, a long-hoped-for son and heir, Paul. 1970.
Doctor Thorne (Barsetshire novels. #3.)
Par Anthony Trollope, David Skilton. 1994
Doctor Thorne is confronted with a delicate problem when his niece, the penniless Mary Thorne, considers marriage to Frank Gresham,…
heir to a great but impoverished estate. Shall Doctor Thorne disclose that Mary may herself become heiress to a huge fortune? Third in the Chronicles of Barsetshire. 1994.
Desperate remedies: a novel
Par Thomas Hardy. 1975
Cytherea Gray, lady's maid, decides to marry the villainous Aeneas Manston after she discovers her true love, Edward Springrove, is…
already engaged. As soon as she is married she discovers that Aeneas's first wife is still alive. Her investigations into the situation have tragic consequences. 1975.
David Copperfield (Everyman's library)
Par Charles Dickens. 1981
Cranford (Oxford English Novels Ser.)
Par Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. 1853
Daisy Miller (Forsyte chronicles)
Par Henry James, Geoffrey Moore. 1986
"What the European male fails to understand is that the American girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent", and, the…
confusion of Winterbourne is aggravated by the atmosphere in Vevey, a no-man's land half-way between the grimness of Geneva and the moral laxity of Rome. Winterbourne mistakes Daisy's frank manner for commonness, yet he is also aware of her delicate grace. 1986.
Classic satire about a nineteenth-century New England factory worker who is knocked unconscious and transported back to the year 528.…
Hank Morgan awakens in King Arthur's court in Britain, where he attempts to improve living conditions by introducing modern inventions and democratic ideas. For senior high and older readers. 1988, c1889.
Oliver Twist
Par Charles Dickens, Jean Muray. 1996
Enfant abandonné, Oliver est confronté à la réalité de l'orphelinat et de la misère. Victime de mauvais traitements, il s'enfuit…
à Londres où il découvre l'univers de la délinquance. Fresque de l'enfance malheureuse qui dénonce la bourgeoisie de l'Angleterre puritaine du XIXe siècle. 1996, c1838.
On the eve: a novel (Penguin classics)
Par Gilbert Gardiner, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. 1972
Nana
Par George Holden, Émile Zola. 1972
Marius the Epicurean: his sensations and ideas (Elibron Classics Ser.)
Par Walter Pater. 2006
Set in the second century A.D. against the backdrop of a Roman Empire on the verge of decline, Marius the…
Epicurean is the story of the philosophical and spiritual development of Marius, a young Italian serving as amanuensis to the great emperor Marcus Aurelius. Marius explores the various systems of philosophy in search of an elusive vision of love, moving from Epicureanism to Cyrenaicism and finally Stoicism before finally finding what he had sought in the terrible beauty of Christian martyrdom. 2006.
The betrothed: I Promessi Sposi (The Penguin classics)
Par Alessandro Manzoni, Bruce Penman. 1972
Set in the Milan area in the early 17th century. Follows the fate of Lucia and Renzo, two peasant lovers…
cruelly separated by the machinations of a lecherous Spanish nobleman. First published in the 18th century. 1972.
Phineas redux (Palliser novels. #4.)
Par Anthony Trollope. 1983
After the death of his Irish wife, Mary, in childbirth, Phineas Finn resumes his political career in the House of…
Commons in London, though with considerably less zest than previously. Over time, he remarries, survives an attempt on his life, and is acquitted of the murder of a rival politician, of which he had been falsely accused. Having gained wisdom and maturity, he leaves political life. First published in 1874. Sequel to "The Eustace diamonds" (DC14793). (The Palliser novels ; 4)
Persuasion
Par Jane Austen. 1818
Anne Elliot has been persuaded to break off her engagement, but meets Wentworth again after some time, and the story…
is concerned with the gradual revival of his passion for her. 1818.