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1) Little women
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English
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
2) Little men
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Series
Language
English
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Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
3) Jackaby
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R.F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
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Series
Jackaby volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The highly anticipated third volume of the paranormal detective series perfect for "readers who enjoy Doctor Who, Supernatural, Grimm...and of course, Sherlock Holmes stories, and who are ready to say up into the wee hours." Jenny Cavanaugh, the ghostly landlord of 926 Augur Lane, has enlisted the services of her detective-agency tenants to solve a decade-old murder--her own. Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, dive into the cold...
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Monstrumologist volume 1
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English
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In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
While searching for her true self and for the way to meet the needs of her personal sense of spirituality, an orphaned teenaged girl joins a Shaker community in mid-nineteenth centery New England and learns about a new religion called Mormonism.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite. London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case....
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English
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Sarah Waters meets Red Clocks in this searing novel, set at an all-girl school in 19th century Massachusetts, which probes the timeless question: who gets to control a woman's body and why. The year is 1871. In Ashwell, Massachusetts, at the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, a mysterious flock of red birds descends. Samuel, whose fame as a philosopher has waned in recent years, takes the birds' appearance as an omen that the time is...
11) Emily Hudson
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books-Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After the start of the Civil War, orphaned Emily Hudson must go to live in Newport, Rhode Island with her puritanical uncle, who attempts to marry her off, only to have Emily journey to London with her cousin, William, who soon becomes her controlling patron.
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Upon the isles of the sea volume 1
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Language
English
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Driven by the dream of creating a new life in the South Sea colonies, a small group of immigrants (among them several recent converts to the Mormon Church) becomes part of the surging tide of immigrants leaving the British Isles. Facing the perils of life at sea, their lives become inextricably intertwined as they make their journey to a new home.
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"With only two months before Elizabeth sets sail for London to marry a British lord, she resolves to live a lifetime of adventure. Lucian Griffin, her dearest friend's brother, intends to protect Elizabeth from letting her adventures forever sully her reputation. Soon his earnest fondness gives way to deep affection."--
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