Bianca Amato
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
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Recorded Books
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English
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Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can't prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this lovely and lyrical novel. Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden. Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey, and her best friend, every day is beautiful. But when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult. Lions and hyenas are nothing compared to...
4) Trilby
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English
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Trilby (1894) is a novel by George du Maurier. Originally serialized in Harper's Monthly the novel went on to become an international bestseller, attracting controversy and interest for its depiction of bohemian life in 19th-century Paris. Although Trilby has been criticized by such readers as George Orwell for its anti-Semitic depiction of Svengali, the novel has been adapted countless times for theater and film, including a 1931 motion picture starring...
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"When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined--with Margaret's younger sister Mary--to a sisterhood unique in all the world: the three will become queens of England, Scotland, and France"--From the publisher's web site.
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2013.
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English
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Passionately in love with Richard III in spite of her arranged marriage to pretender to the throne Henry Tudor, Princess Elizabeth of York is forced to marry the man who murdered her lover and create a royal family under the controlling gaze of his mother.
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English
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The Earl of St. Merryn needs a woman. His intentions are purely practical-he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for a few weeks among polite society. He has his own agenda to pursue, and a false fiancEe will keep the husband-hunters at bay while he goes about his business. The simplest solution is to hire a paid companion. Finding the right candidate proves more of a challenge than he expected. But when he encounters...
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"The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When...
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2015.
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English
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"Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man who has buried four wives--King Henry VIII--commands her to marry him. Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she faces: the previous queen lasted sixteen months, the one before barely half a year. But Henry adores his new bride and Kateryn's trust in him grows as she unites the royal family, creates a radical study circle at the heart of the court,...
10) A pinch of magic
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A pinch of magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Three sisters--adventurous Betty, curious Charlie, and proper Fliss--go on a quest to break the curse that has haunted their family for generations.
11) Midnight thief
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Kyra, a highly skilled seventeen-year-old thief, joins a guild of assassins with questionable motives. Tristam, a young knight, fights against the vicious Demon Riders that are ravaging the city"--
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Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by the removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce
A Courageous Outcast . . .
Rosamunde Baird has lost everything and has no choice but to accept an invitation to spend a season with a dowager duchess and her clandestine ladies club. Determined to stay in the shadows and live quietly, she has sworn never again to come...
13) Well witched
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Three friends fall prey to the demands of the Well Witch when they trespass in her wishing well and steal some coins.
15) The other queen
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English
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Presents a tale inspired by the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a work that follows the doomed monarch's long imprisonment in the household of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his spying wife, Bess.
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Entreated for help by a childhood nemesis who has been wrongly accused of murder, Lady Emily launches an investigation in Venice that takes her from elegant palazzi to slums, libraries, and bordellos before she links the crime to a centuries-old puzzle.
17) Bad seeds
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Jade de Jong volume 5
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English
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"Relentless South African private investigator Jade de Jong tracks a saboteur in a race to prevent a nuclear disaster in Jassy Mackenzie's new, pulse-pounding thriller. Despite her checkered history with law enforcement, Johannesburg private investigatorJade de Jong is attempting to operate on the right side of the law, confining herself to low-profile cases. But her remarkably attractive new employer, Ryan Gillespie, has tasked her with finding...
18) Blood's pride
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Evie Manieri's mesmerizing debut is the first book in the much anticipated Shattered Kingdoms trilogy. Decades ago, the vicious Norlanders landed on the shores of the Shadar and enslaved the peaceful fisher folk. Now an uprising brews in the city depths - the rebels have even hired the infamous mercenary known as the Mongrel to aid them. But as the battle against the powerful Norlanders nears, the Mongrel's sinister ambitions threaten to doom the...
19) Line by Line
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English
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Alice McNeil resolved at a young age to travel through life unencumbered by love or marriage, free to make her own decisions. A seasoned telegrapher, she's recently acquired a coveted position at an important trading firm, but when the company's ambitious junior director returns to London, things begin to change in ways Alice could never have imagined.
For Douglas Shaw, years of hard work and ingenuity enabled him to escape a life of grinding poverty....
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Chocolate should not be associated with sudden death. Claire is only guiding readers to the sites of mystery books; she isn't responsible for the body in the chocolate factory. She doesn't want to discover murder in the city of York or any part of Yorkshire where she takes her curious tourists.