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1) Tom Jones
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Language
English
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Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
3) The Guardian
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
Language
English
Description
After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
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Language
English
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"The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays" brings together Oscar Wilde's most popular plays which first appeared between 1891 and 1895. Despite his relatively short theatrical career, Wilde's plays have enjoyed a sustained popularity. A classic satire of Victorian society, "The Importance of Being Earnest" is one of the author's most frequently performed works. The play trivializes its characters, who through a series of deceptions pretend...
5) Silas Marner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Disappointed in friendship and love, and embittered by a false accusation, weaver Silas Marner retreats from the world with his loom, but soon finds his monastic existence forever changed by the arrival of an orphaned girl, whom he takes in and raises as his own daughter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Lexington, a foundling raised in a zoo, spends a summer cementing friendships, growing closer to the elephant that saved her life, and learning about her family and herself.
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Series
Bitterbynde trilogy volume 1
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English
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In a dark and perilous realm, an outcast without a name or a memory seeks a voice, a past, and a future in the first installment of a modern classic fantasy trilogy In all of Erith, there is perhaps no one as wretched as the nameless mute foundling confined to the lowest depths of Isse Tower. Abused by many and despised by all, the pathetic creature lives without memories in the shadows. The amnesiac longs to escape-to roam the wild landscape in search...
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Series
Language
English
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The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of...
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Series
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct sequel to The Witness For The Dead... Celehar's life as the Witness for the Dead of Amalo grows less isolated as his circle of friends grows larger. He has been given an apprentice to teach, and he has stumbled over a scandal of the city-the foundling girls. Orphans with no family to claim them and no funds to buy an apprenticeship. Foundling boys go...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
309 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the time she was a crippled baby, left in a church, Maggie's life has never been easy but when she glimpses her destiny in a magic mirror, she goes off on a quest to find her father and, along the way, finds happiness, as well.
11) A healing touch
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Language
English
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"Dr. Ruth "Dok" Stoltzfus dedicates her life to her patients, addressing not just their physical needs but their emotional needs too. When an abandoned infant arrives at her office, she resists the idea of fostering him. Too old, too busy, too everything. But just as she begins to form a bond with the baby, the birth mother unexpectedly reappears"--
12) The unwilling
Author
Series
Barrier lands volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir to Lord Elban's vast empire. Judah and Gavin share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survival - and possibly her undoing. As Gavin is groomed for his future role, Judah comes to realize that she has no real position within the kingdom, in fact, no hope at all of ever traveling beyond its castle...
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Series
Bride ships volume 3
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English
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Description
"In 1863, Upon discovering an abandoned baby, Pastor Abe Merivale cares for the infant along with Zoe Hart, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women. With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, they hastily marry - but soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lochiel Ogle was born with a red-wine birthmark and it put her life in jeopardy from the moment she entered the world. Mountain folks called it "the mark of the devil," and for all the evil that has plagued her nineteen-year existence, Lochiel is ready to believe that is true. And the evil surely took control of the mind of the boy who stole her as an infant, bringing her home for his mother to raise.
15) Fishbone's Song
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
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Description
"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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This is the story of the savage, tormented foundling Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. A book of great power and strength, it is filled with the raw beauty of the moors and an uncanny understanding of the terrible truths about men and women. It is an understanding made even more extraordinary by the fact that...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafÃb and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
19) Tumbleweed Baby
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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A New York Times bestseller!
"A bewitching gem...I absolutely loved every moment of this story." —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series
"If you loved the Hogwarts Library...you'll be right at home at Summershall." —Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale
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"A bewitching gem...I absolutely loved every moment of this story." —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series
"If you loved the Hogwarts Library...you'll be right at home at Summershall." —Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale
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