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By Honoré De Balzac, David Bellos, Sylvia Raphael. 2013
Lisbeth Fischer, or Cousin Bette, feels she's been wronged - though much of what she perceives may only reside in…
her imagination. Seeking vengeance against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline, she leverages the uncontrollable sexual appetites of her cousin's husband as the linchpin of her plans. 2013, c1846. Uniform title: Cousine Bette.By Daphne Du Maurier. 1993
By Hugh MacLennan. 1945
The division between French and English Canadians is dramatically shown in this novel about two families -- one, French landowners…
in a small Quebec village; the other, English businessmen from Montreal. Winner of the 1945 Governor General's Award for Fiction.By Miles Franklin. 1980
It is the 1890s. Sybylla, trapped in drudgery on her father's farm, loves the wild Australian outback and its way…
of life, but hates the bitter constraints which will always be her lot as a woman. She longs for beauty - to read, to think, to sing - but most of all to do great things, to have a "brilliant career" as a writer. 1980.By Jean Rhys. 1934
1914. Anna, 18 and independent both by circumstance and by character, has exchanged the West Indian island of her childhood…
for the cold, grey island of England, with its narrow streets and narrow rules. She comes to understand a world where people offer you no help unless there's something they want. 1934.By H. G Wells. 1910
Mr Polly has spent years as a respectable shopkeeper. His life has little to offer but more tedium and poverty.…
So he settles on the idea of suicide and plans a fire that will destroy him. But in the mayhem that ensues, he forgets to kill himself and finds a whole new world waiting for him. 1910.By Laura Ingalls Wilder. 2005
By Laura Ingalls Wilder. 2003
Story about a traditional farm family in upper New York State in the 1860s tells about work, school, and simple…
amusements and introduces nine-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who later married Laura Ingalls. Grades 4-7 and older readers. Originally published in 1933, c2003.By Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Robert A Maguire. 2004
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town, visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer.…
He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these souls as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. 2004.By Rebecca West. 1985
By J. D Salinger. 2009
By Antoine de Saint Exupéry. 2007
Un pilote d'avion fait la connaissance dans le désert d'un petit garçon venu d'ailleurs. Ce dernier lui fait le récit…
de ses rencontres sur toutes sortes de planètes. Il a découvert ainsi ce qui fait l'essentiel de la vie. Années 3-6. 2008, c1943.By Stefan Zweig. 1985
By Rumer Godden. 1994
Beginning work in the orchards and opening a school and a dispensary for the Himalayan mountain people, the Sisters of…
Mary are dependent for help on the English agent, Mr Dean. But his charm and insolent candour are disconcerting. 1994, c1939.By Mary Hayley Bell. 1997
A classic novel about a group of siblings who find a man in a barn who they believe is Jesus,…
and they keep the secret to themselves until the adults find out and suspect the man is a recently escaped convict. Grades 3-6. 1997, c1961.By L. M Montgomery. 1923
By Samuel Beckett. 1973
By John Steinbeck. 1939
Depression farmers and their families are driven from the dust bowl of their Oklahoma farms to the promised land of…
California to find work. Winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for the novel. Strong language. 1939.By L. M Montgomery. 1989
Anne is now 25 and about to be married to Gilbert Blythe, who is setting up in practice 60 miles…
away at Four Winds Harbour. He has found the house of her dreams, and the young couple are to meet and love a whole new set of characters. Grades 5-8. 1989. (Anne of Green Gables ; 5)