Rosalyn Landor
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
Author
Language
English
Description
Follows the efforts of Chicky, who, with the help of Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business), turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges. John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian, forced into taking a...
Author
Series
Hathaways volume 5
Language
English
Description
Free-spirited Beatrix Hathaway is more comfortable outdoors than in the ballrooms of London and has resigned herself to never finding a suitable husband until she meets Captain Christopher Phelan--her best friend's fiancé.
Author
Series
Wallflowers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Headstrong American heiress Lillian Bowman has come to England to find an aristocratic husband. Unfortunately, no man is strong enough to tame the stubborn beauty's fierce will. Except, perhaps, the powerful and arrogant Earl of Westcliff--a man Lillian despises more than anyone she's ever met.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth's sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM • A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
“Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is...
“Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is...
Author
Series
Wallflowers volume 4
Language
English
Description
Quirky and fun-loving American heiress Daisy Bowman is the last unmarried Wallflower. Her exasperated father has informed her that if she can’t find a husband by the end of her third London season, she will be forced to marry a man she hates—-the ruthless entrepreneur Matthew Swift. Daisy is horrified. A Bowman never admits defeat, so she decides to do whatever if takes to marry someone...anyone...other than Matthew. --Publisher
Author
Series
Wallflowers volume 5
Language
English
Description
It's Christmastime in London and Rafe Bowman has arrived from America for his arranged meeting with Natalie Blandford, the very proper and beautiful daughter of Lady and Lord Blandford. His chiseled good looks and imposing physique are sure to impress the lady in waiting and, if it weren't for his shocking American ways and wild reputation, her hand would already be guaranteed. Before the courtship can begin, Rafe realizes he must learn the rules...
Author
Series
Hathaways volume 4
Language
English
Description
Leo Hathaway must marry and produce an heir within a year to save his family home. Catherine Marks is intriguing and infernally tempting but hides a secret that could utterly destroy her. Can two wary lovers find a way to banish the shadows and give in to their desires?
12) Witch wraith
Author
Series
Dark legacy of Shannara volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A conclusion to the trilogy finds the world's enduring heroes mustering the end of their courage when the magical barrier imprisoning dangerous creatures erodes, unleashing generations of vengeful prisoners on the land.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mistress departs from Victorian London society to seek relief from tuberculosis symptoms in Egypt, maid Sally throws herself into their new culture and comes to know freedoms she has never experienced before she is harshly reminded of her humblestation in life.
14) Dreaming of you
Author
Series
Gambler of Craven's volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A prim, well-bred gentlewoman, Sara Fielding is a writer who puts pen to paper to create dreams. But now curiosity is luring her from the shelter of her country cottage into the dangerous world of Derek Craven, handsome, tough, tenacious, and the most exciting man Sara has ever met. Derek rose from poverty to become the wealthy lord of London's most exclusive gambling house. And now duty demands that he allow Sara Fielding to enter his perilous realm...
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 14
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn turns up dead after seeing renowned plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell for a routine surgical procedure, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to investigate.
Author
Series
League of beastly dreadfuls volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Assassin Leonard Kastner agrees to kill the infant heir to the European kingdom of Lubinia. Just as he is about to carry out the heinous deed, the baby awakens and smiles at him. Losing his heart to tiny Alana Stindal, Leonard sweeps her out of their homeland to safety in England, where he conceals her true identity and gives her an education fit for a queen.
18) Saving Grace
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In 13th century Scotland, Lady Johanna has vowed to never marry again after having become a widow at sixteen. King John, however, forces Johanna to marry the mighty warrior, Gabriel. And only when a royal intrigue threatens to tear them apart do Johanna and Gabriel completely realize their love.
19) Prince charming
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
To escape becoming a ward of her unscrupulous uncle, Taylor Stapleton agrees to marry Lucas Ross, a rugged American rancher. Taylor also has a secret, a precious legacy she hasn't revealed to Ross. However, as she begans to fall for her handsome new husband, Taylor dares to surrender her heart to an uncertain future.
20) Bloodfire quest
Author
Series
Dark legacy of Shannara volume 2
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The fate of an innocent young girl is in the hands of protectors who embark on a dangerous quest to protect a once-peaceful world from dangerous creatures imprisoned behind an eroding magical barrier.