Park Lane by Frances Osborne
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Category: General
London, February 1914. Eighteen year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London from Carlisle, her family's hopes pinned on her becoming a secretary. The only job she can find is as a housemaid in the mansion that is Number 35, Park Lane, and soon she is entangling herself in an ever-thickening web of lies. U ...Show more
The Truth by Michael Palin
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Category: General
Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a highly influential activist and humanitarian - he seizes the chance to write something meaningful. His search to find out the real story behind the leg ...Show more
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.' Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Br ...Show more
The Spinoza Problem: A Novel by Irvin D. Yalom
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Category: General
InThe Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical novel. A psychiatrist with a deep interest in philosophical issues, Yalom jointly tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, his philosophy and subsequent excommunication from the ...Show more
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Roald Dahl
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Category: General | Reading Level: good
Enter a brilliant, sinister and wholly unpredictable world. Here you will find the suggestion of other-worldly goings on in a dark story about a swan and a boy; the surprising tale of a wealthy young wastrel who suddenly develops a remarkable new ability; and, meet the hitchhiker whose light-fingers sav ...Show more
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life by Roald Dahl
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Fiction Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a new collection of Roald Dahl stories, all on a theme of country matters; they will all feature those wily characters Claud, Rummins and Bert, who appeared so memorably in Dahl's famous story, parson's pleasure. There will be seven stories in the book, including one ("Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" ...Show more
My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl
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Category: General | Reading Level: good
Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, the old reprobate from "Switch Bitch", is connoisseur, bon vivant, collector of spiders, scorpions, odd walking sticks, lover of opera, expert on Chinese porcelain, and without doubt the greatest fornicator of all time. This title reveals how Uncle Oswald first achieved great ...Show more
The Housemaid's Daughter by Barbara Mutch
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Category: General
Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Previously released as 'Karoo Plainsong' this is a fully revised debut novel. Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa and marry the fiance she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in ...Show more
Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington
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Category: General
Alice Bliss is fifteen. She's smart, funny, and clever. Not afraid to stand up for the things she believes in. She also idolises her father and, when he leaves home to fight a war she doesn't believe in, Alice is distraught. She and her mother negotiate his absence as best they can - waiting impatiently ...Show more
Salvage the Bones (Prize Winner National Book Award 2011) by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't mu ...Show more
Elizabeth I: A Novel by Margaret George
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Category: General | Reading Level: 16
1588. In the height of her power is the legendary Elizabeth Tudor, history's most enigmatic queen. She is the virgin with many suitors; the victor of the Armada who hated war; the jewel-bedecked woman always pinching pennies. Elizabeth's flame-haired cousin, Lettice Knollys, is her bitter rival. In love ...Show more
Anatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
In Egypt, Nuri, a teenage boy, falls in love with Mona - the woman his father will marry. Consumed with longing, Nuri wants to get his father out of the way - to take his place in Mona's heart. But when his father disappears, Nuri regrets what he wished for. Alone, he and Mona search desperately for the ...Show more