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Author
Publisher
Kane Miller/EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Where's Jane? Can you spot her? Look carefully and you'll find her hiding among the colorful scenes from some of her best-loved novels, including Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, and more. Read the story summaries, then find the characters in the gorgeously detailed artwork depicting Austen's intriguing Georgian and Regency-era world"--From the publisher's web site.
3) Just Jane
Author
Series
Ladies of history volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Based on historical records, a novel presented as a journal written by Jane Austen follows the author's life from her first love affair at age twenty until she is a respected author in her late thirties.
Author
Series
Jane Austen mystery volume 13
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker extraordinaire, is about to declare bankruptcy dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside, believing him to be dying. While she's there, the Reverend James Stanier Clarke, chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, invites Jane to tour...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Visiting her brother in Kent to celebrate his engagement, fifteen-year-old Jane Austen meets wealthy, handsome Edward Taylor. Unsure of her budding relationship, Jane seeks distraction by attempting to correct the pairings of other prospective couples. But when her matchmaking aspirations go awry, Jane discovers the danger of relying on first impressions"-- Provided by the publisher.
7) Austenland
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Jane Hayes' adoration of all things Jane Austen is complicating her love life. Determined to be the heroine of her own story, Jane spends her life savings on a trip to Austenland, an eccentric Austen-inspired resort. There she meets two very different gentlemen, but has a difficult time determining where fantasy ends and real life, and maybe even love, begins.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Twenty-six years have passed since the death of Jane Austen. Armed with a lock of Austen's hair as perhaps her best clue, Anne Sharp, former governess to the Austen family and Jane's close friend, has decided at least to tell her story -- a story of family intrigues, shocking secrets, forbidden loves, and maybe even murder.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
How successfully does the world of Jane Austen translate into Spanish? One intrepid author finds out in thisliterary exploration/travel memoir. On sabbatical, Austen devotee Smith embarked on a project to discuss Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma with reading groups in Latin America. Displaying the good cheer and wry humor befitting an Austenite (as opposed to, say, an Emily Bronte or George Eliot enthusiast), she plunged into Spanish...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
There's no place for pride in this Austen misadventure.
Chloe Parker was born two centuries too late. A thirty-nine-year- old divorced mother, she runs her own antique letterpress business, is a lifelong member of the Jane Austen Society, and gushes over everything Regency. But her business is failing, threatening her daughter's future. What's a lady to do?
Why, audition for a Jane Austen-inspired TV show set in England, of course.
What
...Author
Publisher
Jones Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen and Crime shows the crimes Jane Austen included in her novels, puts them into the context of the Georgian age, and examines, for the first time. the symbolism and morality of crime and punishment in her fiction. It shows how Jane Austen's contemporaries would have reacted to these crimes and how they would have been punished.--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read Pride and Prejudice again and again? Why do we delight in Emma's mischievous schemes? Why do we care that Anne Elliot of Persuasion suffers? We care because it is our biological destiny to be interested in people and their stories--the human brain is a social brain. And Austen's characters are so believable, that for many of us, they are not just imaginary beings, but friends whom we know...
16) Heartstone
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Elle Katharine White infuses elements of Austen’s beloved Pride and Prejudice with her own brand of magic. Filled with wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom, Heartstone is a modern epic fantasy that conjures a familiar yet wondrously unique new world. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Divorced American Charlotte Kinder takes a trip to Regency staged Pembrook Park in Kent where she plays parlor games, learns country dances, and even lets herself be courted by her assigned suitor, the brooding, magnetic Mr. Mallery. But her vacation becomes more Northanger Abbey when she catches a fleeting glimpse of a dead body in a secret room.
Author
Series
Amish classics volume 3
Publisher
Realms
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At twenty-five years of age, Anna Eicher has never married. When she was seventeen, her parents convinced her to break off her courtship with Freman Whittmore. Afterward, a distraught Freman moved away from Lancaster County. Eight years later Freman has returned to visit his sister. Freman has neither married—nor forgiven Anna. Although he begins courting someone else, Anna hopes to convince him that she has never stopped loving him.
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