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61) Ravencliffe
Author
Series
Blythewood volume 2
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ava Hall continues to learn more about herself and her heritage through her work in a New York City settlement house as well as through her social obligations with the Blythewood girls.
63) Normal people
Author
Description
"At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her...
Author
Series
Kingdoms and empires volume 2
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Description
"Told in multiple voices, after students from elite Brathelthwaite Boarding School and the Orphanage School compete in the Spindthrift Tournament, they team up to face the Whisperers"--Provided by publisher.
65) The Fire of Ares
Author
Series
Spartan quest volume 1
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When slaves rebel in ancient Sparta, twelve-year-old Lysander, guarded by an heirloom amulet, the Fire of Ares, is caught between the Spartan ruling class, with whom he has been training as a warrior since his noble heritage was revealed, and those among whom he was recently laboring as a slave.
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Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
67) Hannah
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 1
Formats
Description
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters--Elinor, Marianne and Margaret--as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance.
69) Blythewood
Author
Series
Blythewood volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
489 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After a summer locked away in a mental institution, seventeen-year-old orphan Ava Hall is sent to Blythewood, a finishing school for young ladies that is anything but ordinary"--
Author
Series
Spartan quest volume 2
Publisher
Walker Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When Persians invade Sparta while thirteen-year-old Lysander is training to be a soldier, he finds his loyalties are divided between Spartan honor and the Helot slaves with whom he lived most of his life.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
565 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
In 1880's Georgetown, Colorado, seventeen-year-old Nealie Bent deals with lies, secrets, and heartache before choosing the man who will give her the Bride's House. Years later, Nealie's daughter, Pearl, grows up in the Bride's House. When the enterprising young Frank Curry comes along and asks for Pearl's hand in marriage, Pearl's father sabotages the union. But Pearl has inherited her mother's tenacity of heart, and her father underestimates the...
Author
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy Patterson and seventeen-year-old Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally, in this story set over the course of one year"--
73) Court of Fives
Author
Series
Court of Fives trilogy volume 1
Formats
Description
When a scheming lord tears Jess's family apart, she must rely on her unlikely friendship with Kal, a high-ranking Patron boy, and her skill at Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory, to protect her Commoner mother and mixed-race sisters and save her father's reputation.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
132 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The spellbinding story of the unlikely and inseparable friendship between two boys caught in the tragic sweep of history-- from the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the horrific rule of the Taliban"--book flap.
Author
Series
He's so/She's so trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Told in two voices, high school juniors Allie, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the "Crestie" whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father's bad investment that cost them all.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Lovely Ellen Kellaway was rescued from a bleak future by her newly discovered guardian, Jago Kellaway, Lord of the Far Island, off the wild coast of Cornwall. There, Ellen was drawn deeper and deeper into the secrets of a past as alive and threatening as the present. There Jago offered her the fabled Island Necklace worn by the mistresses of Kellaway Castle. But was it a promise of happiness--or a dark symbol of death?
77) Everless
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In a land where the rich are able to hoard time, Jules Ember returns to the estate where she and her father used to be servants and where the youngest son of an aristocratic family is planning to marry the daughter of the queen.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
TMark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still not quite at the top. When the new owners of the penthouse above them begin construction, an unstable stranger penetrates the security of their comfortable lives and threatens to destroy everything they've created.
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