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Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte
Description: A dramatization of the Charlotte Bronte classic about a mistreated orphan who learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence. As a grown woman she obtains a position as governess to the daughter of the mysterious Mr. Rochester. Just as she is about to win the happiness with him that she has long deserved, a dark secret comes to light. |
Janes in LoveCecil Castellucci
Description: The art attacks continue in this sequel to the acclaimed graphic novel THE PLAIN JANES. The coolest clique of misfits ever plays Cupid and becomes entangled in affairs of the heart. P.L.A.I.N. - People Loving Art In Neighborhoods - goes global when the art gang procures a spot in the Metro City Museum of Modern Art Contest. And the Janes will discover that in art and love, the normal rules don't always apply.
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Journey to the Center of the EarthJules Verne
Description: An adventurous geology professor mounts an expedition that descends into a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life — a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence. Jules Verne's 19th-century action classic has the added appeal of a psychological quest, in which the journey is as significant as the destination.
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Kitchen House, TheKathleen Grissom
Description: When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.
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Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini
Description: In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. |
Last Song, TheNicholas Sparks
Contents: 6 hardback books -- 3 trade pbks. -- 2 pbks. -- Clip board. Description: Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father, a former concert pianist and teacher, moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father ... until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she and her younger brother spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Resentful and rebellious, Ronnie rejects all of her father's attempts to reach out to her and threatens to return to New York before the summer's end. But soon ... |
Life of PiYann Martel
Description: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift in a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company. A dazzling work of imagination and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
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Little BeeChris Cleave
Description: A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
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Lost Symbol, TheDan Brown
Description: Symbologist Robert Langdon, summoned to Washington, D.C. by his mentor, finds himself plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and secret locations-- all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth. |
Lovely BonesAnne Sebold
Description: When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on. |
Contents: 6 paperback books -- 6 hardcover books -- Clip board.
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Contents: 16 paperback books -- 1 hardback -- Clip board.
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Contents: 12 hardcover books -- 3 large print paperbacks -- Clip board.
Contents: 7 paperback books -- 10 hardbacks -- 1 DVD -- Clip board.