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Hans Brinker or The silver skates (Recorded Books classics library)
By Mary Mapes Dodge. 1996
How green was my curate (Autobiography. #1.)
By Fred Secombe. 1989
Written with warmth and humour, these fictionalised memoirs of a young curate tell of his experiences when sent to a…
parish in the Welsh Valleys at the end of the 2nd World War. Peopled with delightful and amusing characters, this book offers a charming picture of rural life. 1989.How my parents learned to eat
By Ina R Friedman. 1984
Hooray! A piñata!
By Elisa Kleven. 1996
From the earth to the moon (Crest book ; #S216)
By Jules Verne. 1995
It is the year 1865. Following the end of the American Civil War, the members of Baltimore Gun Club are…
restless, seeking new ways of using their genius for invention and discovery. So their president, Impey Barbicane, sets his fellows a challenge: to construct a rocket which can reach the moon. 1995, c1865. Uniform title: De la terre à la lune.Felix Holt, the radical (The World's classics)
By George Eliot, Fred C Thomson. 1980
Felix Holt is pitted against the self-satisfied local landowner Harold Transome, both politically and in his pursuit of Esther Lyon.…
Eliot's novel is set against the political ferment and corrupt electioneering in a small Midland borough at the time of the Reform Bill of 1832. 1980.Eugene Onegin: a novel in verse (Penguin classics)
By Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Stanley Mitchell. 2008
Set in 1820s Russia. Tired of the glitter and glamour of St Petersburg society, aristocratic dandy Eugene Onegin retreats to…
the country estate he has recently inherited. With the arrival of the idealistic young poet Vladimir Lensky he begins an unlikely friendship, as the poet welcomes his urbane addition to his small social circle - and is happy to introduce Onegin to his fiancee, Olga, and her family. But when Olga's sister Tatiana becomes infatuated with Onegin, his cold rejection of her love brings about a tragedy that engulfs them all. Originally published: 1833. 2008.Diary of a pilgrimage (Jerome K. Jerome Ser.)
By Jerome K Jerome. 1891
Invited to the theatre on Monday next, Jerome discovers it is at Ober-Ammergau. He looked at his diary and saw…
that Aunt Emma was coming, calculated that he would miss her and decided that he would go! And so began an epic pilgrimage. 1891.Divided city
By Theresa Breslin. 2006
A young man lies bleeding in the street. It's Glasgow. The Orange Walks have begun. Graham doesn't want to be…
involved. He just wants to play football with his new mate, Joe. But when he witnesses a shocking moment of violence, suddenly he and Joe are involved. With Catholics, and with Protestants. With a young Muslim asylum-seeker, and his girlfriend. With all the old rivalries and fears. A gripping tale about two boys who must find their own answers - and their own way forward - in a world divided by differences. Junior High. 2006.Dombey and Son (Penguin English library)
By 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.)
By 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
By 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.Delta wedding
By Eudora Welty. 1946
A quiet novel celebrating a large Southern family. In September 1923 nine-year-old Laura travels to her cousin's wedding in the…
Mississippi delta. Laura is glad to be enveloped by the family because her mother has recently died. She enjoys the boys' wildness, the girls' companionship, and her aunts' and uncles' strong love. 1991, c1946.Daisy Miller (Forsyte chronicles)
By 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.Cranford (Oxford English Novels Ser.)
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. 1853
Coat of many colors
By Dolly Parton. 2016
A poor girl delights in her coat of many colors, made by her mother from rags, because despite the ridicule…
of the other children she knows the coat was made with love. Based on a true story. Grades K-3. 2016.Choo choo: the story of a little engine who ran away
By Virginia Lee Burton. 1937
Once upon a time there was a little engine named Choo Choo who became tired of pulling heavy coaches from…
the little town to the big city and back again. Choo Choo ran away but when the excitement wore off, she was happy to be found. For grades K-3. 1964, 1937.Buttered side down: a slice of country life (Down to earth. #3)
By Faith Addis. 2000
This series follows Faith and Brian Addis as they work to keep open their holiday home "Phyllishayes" - a roomy…
farmhouse in Devon offering memorable holidays for children who may never have experienced the countryside in their lives. Sequel to "Green behind the ears", followed by "It's better than work". 2000.Bonjour tristesse (Great loves)
By Françoise Sagan, Irene Ash. 2007
Cecile leads a hedonistic, frivolous life with her father and his young mistresses. On holiday in the South of France,…
she is seduced by the sun, the sand and her first lover. But when her father decides to remarry, their carefree existence becomes clouded by tragedy. Originally published in 1954. 2007.Bertie plays the blues: a 44 Scotland Street novel (44 Scotland Street series. #7.)
By Alexander McCall Smith. 2012