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62) Emma
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Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
63) The rebel wife
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
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Forced into marriage with a wealthy man after her Southern family is rendered destitute by the Civil War, Augusta becomes a widow a decade later and finds her circumstances hinging on a missing package in a community torn by racial prejudice, violence, and disease.
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Pulp, an imprint of Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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223 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation--it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again. Freda adjusted to this fate with an ease that stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered...
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Allumination FilmWorks
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2006, c1993
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3 videodisc (405 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Comeback: Matt takes the ride of his life to prove he's still the Man from Snowy River; an old friend of Rob's arrives and turns many women's heads.
Grand opening: Montana is attracted to Rob's old friend, Duncan Jones. The McGregors are worried about cattle rustling and Hannah Kirov begins a surprising new business venture.
Black sheep: When a mysterious new woman comes to town, not every McGregor is pleased to make her acquaintance.
Prince of...
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Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excrutiating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost...
67) Mujercitas
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Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and their mother endure the hardships of poverty while the girls' father is away fighting in the Civil War.
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A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
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Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Either one would make a perfect husband... someday. But sometimes fate has a wicked sense of humor. There is only one Rokesby Billie absolutely cannot tolerate, and that is George. He may be the eldest and heir to the earldom, but he's arrogant, annoying,...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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xiv, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"Winner of the 2015 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts" "Honorable Mention for the 2014 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International" "One of The Times Higher Education Supplement's Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Alison Stokes" "One of The Guardian's Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist" Gillen D'Arcy Wood is professor of English at the...
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Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
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354 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"When Henry O'Toole escapes the Irish famine and sails to America, he doesn't expect the anti-Irish prejudices that await him. Determined to never starve again, he changes his name to Henry Taylor to secure a job and safeguard his future. Travelling southto Virginia, he meets Sarah, a slave woman torn from her family and sold to another plantation. There she must navigate the power system of the white masters as well as the hierarchy of her fellow...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A detailed historical account of the serial killer calls on never before examined primary documents to reveal how he managed to take advantage of the crowds drawn by the 1893 World's Fair to create his own castle of horrors.
Herman W. Mudgett, better known by his alias, H.H. Holmes, is considered America's first-- and most notorious-- serial killer. During the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, the basement of his house in Englewood, Illinois contained...
74) Emma
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
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1 DVD (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with Mr. Knightly.
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History of England volume 5
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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[x, 387] pages : illustrations (chiely color) ; 25 cm
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"...it was the accession of Queen Victoria, at only eighteen years old, that sparked an era of enormous innovation. Technological progress?from steam railways to the first telegram?swept the nation and the finest inventions were showcased at the first Great Exhibition in 1851. The emergence of the middle-classes changed the shape of society and scientific advances changed the old pieties of the Church of England, and spread secular ideas among the...
76) Clockwork angel
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Infernal devices volume 1
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When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
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2018.
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"In Victorian England, a wealthy young widow encounters the pleasures--and scandalous pitfalls--of a London social season as she welcomes her sister from New York for her first London season. When the police receive an anonymous letter implicating her inher husband's death, she begins to wonder if he was murdered, might she be next"--
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Queen Victoria?s close friend, the Scottish Duke of Buccleuch, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott is expected to make an advantageous marriage. But Margaret is an impulsive and outspoken girl in a repressive society where women are, quite literally, caged in corsets and required to conform. When Lady Margaret?s parents arrange a society marriage for her, she tries to reconcile herself to the match. But shortly before her betrothal is announced, Margaret...
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It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas' epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it...
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