Catalog Search Results
1) Howards End
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A chance acquaintance brings together the prosperous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured, and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. When Mrs. Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Thus as Forster...
2) Bleak House
Author
Language
English
Description
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor,...
3) Adam Bede
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the early nineteenth-century English countryside, an English squire yields to the temptations of an innocent country girl and crime, remorse, and suffering are the consequences.
4) Rise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sisters Akeylah, Ren, and Zofi are all a step closer to their dying father's throne, but their pasts continue to haunt them as their blackmailer threatens everyone and everything they hold dear.
5) Son of Stone
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he's looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. But Arrington has other plans for Stone...including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Known professionally as the "success guru," Morgan Spencer is the turn- around genius who revitalizes failing corporations, and his gifts for identifying problems and finding solutions extends to the personal lives of his friends and acquaintances, but the one life he can't seem to set straight is his own: behind his charming rebel facade is a need that drives him toward success and emptiness.
Author
Language
English
Description
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the characters voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkners masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
9) Rule
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The king is dying, his heir has been murdered, and rebellion brews in the east. But the kingdom of Kolonya and the outer Reaches has one last option: the king has three illegitimate daughters, and one must become his new heir. Zofi is a Traveler from the outer Reaches; she would do anything to protect the band, her family. Akeylah was raised in the Eastern Reach, surrounded by whispers of rebellion and abused by her father. Ren grew up serving as...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage...and finds a cutting from a London society magazine, with a photograph of her supposedly deceased father dated all of three month before. He's an earl, respected and influential, and he is standing...
13) Fortress of ice
Author
Series
Fortress books volume 5
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
The newly-crowned Cefwyn's efforts to rebuild his kingdom are challenged by a sinister force that threatens the land's precarious peace through Cefwyn's own son.
Author
Series
Brides of Bellaire Gardens volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his charge, heiress Clarissa, the daughter of a notorious rake, and her beautiful, yet penniless, half-sister Isobel launch themselves into society against his wishes, the new Earl of Salcott must protect Clarissa from fortune hunters while dealing with the sharp-witted, rebellious and utterly intoxicating Izzy.
15) Ruth
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell set out to portray, not 'the Condition of England' already famously addressed in Mary Barton, but the nature and sensibility of a fallen woman. Her orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced and then abandoned by wealthy young Henry Bellingham. Shamed in the eyes of society by her illegitimate son, and yet rejecting the opportunity to marry her seducer, Ruth finds a path that affirms we are not bound to...
Author
Language
English
Description
Kyoto, Japan, 1948. Noriko "Nori" Kamiza will not question why her mother abandoned her, or her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her shameful skin. The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the...
18) Driftwood tides
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Following the death of his wife Adele, Holton adopts a solitary lifestyle, making driftwood sculptures and drinking to escape his pain, until twenty-year-old Libby shows up at his door and exposes a startling truth about the wife he thought he knew.
Author
Series
Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Henrietta Lightfoot, an orphan raised with her cousins, learns to fend for herself on the streets of eighteenth-century London as a courtesan, a gambler, and a feisty intellectual.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Orem Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. NOTE: WILL REQUIRE A POSTAGE FEE
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can put in a request for us to add it to the collection. Submit Request