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1) Little women
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Language
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) Ethan Frome
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English
Description
A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife's young cousin. Trapped by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, he is ultimately destroyed by...
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English
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In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.
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Language
English
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Description
Twice-Told Tales is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most loved collections of short stories. Presented here is the complete collection of tales which includes the following: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Wedding-Knell, The Minister's Black Veil, The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Gentle Boy, Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, Little Annie's Ramble, Wakefield, A Rill From the Town Pump, The Great Carbuncle, The Prophetic Pictures, David Swan, Sights...
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Series
Jackaby ; 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this conclusion to the Jackaby series, the eccentric detective and his assistant Abigail Rook find themselves in the middle of a war between magical worlds.
An evil king is using a blend of magic and technology to push Earth and the Otherworld into a mortal competition. In New Fiddleham, Jackaby and Abigail are caught in the middle as they try to close the rend between the two worlds, and discover why zombies are appearing around town. As the...
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero for her home for Christmas.
It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...
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Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In the title story, a young girl-out walking with her only friend, a cow named Mistress Moolly-finds the nest of a rare bird. When a handsome young hunter passes by, she must decide whether or not to reveal the nest to him. Other charming, luminous stories of New England village life include "The Gray Man," "Farmer Finch," "Marsh Rosemary," "The Dulham Ladies," and more.
10) Little women
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An enchanting screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's original novel. As the Civil War rages on, the four sisters of the March family struggle to grow up without the guiding hand of their loving father." --
11) Little women
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.
Author
Publisher
Off Limits Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Death has come to town. New England, 1821--Hester Stokely, an orphan with unusual abilities, struggles to find her place in the pious town of Wickstead. A house-servant in the employ of her uncle's upright family, Hester is treated as little more than a pariah by the judgmental townsfolk. When a deadly plague comes to town, Hester becomes indispensable as a healer. Yet as Hester watches the town's residents rapidly fall ill, she realizes that something...
16) Oliver Twist
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and with only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends-Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of "games"...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense--or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is broken at the age of seventeen,...
Publisher
Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Fiddler on the Roof: Tevye is a poor milkman in czarist Russia, where he provides for three unmarried daughters and a sharp-tongued wife. Faced with mounting financial strain and growing anti-Semitism, Tevye strives to maintain balance despite the precarious nature of his situation.
Funny Girl: A musical film that follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice.
The King and I: An English governess is hired to teach the King of Siam's children,...
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