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62) Magpie murders
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
All the right moves: When you live in a dying mill town, the only way to move up in the world is to move out. In Ampipe, Pennsylvania, their high school fottball coach is fighting to parlay a winning team into a big-time position -- away from the town he despises. Great expectations: This is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with...
66) Frontier living
Author
Pub. Date
[1961]
Language
English
Description
"A companion book to the author's 'Colonial Living, ' describing the life of all the early settlers of the American [frontier] ... where they lived and how; what they wore, ate, used for furniture and tools; how they worked, played, traveled, went to school, worshiped and governed themselves."
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A trip back home to Glasgow presents James with a dilemma that will mean choosing between the people he loves. As Helen and James navigate their feelings for one another, Siegfried, Tristan, and Mrs. Hall are also forced to consider their places in the world, while James must decide between supporting his family or following his heart.
68) Silas Marner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1330L
Language
English
Description
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation.
73) Hard times
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised during the rise of industry, Louisa, shows poor choices in later life result from too practical an upbringing, cares nothing about what happens to her.
74) The last whalers: three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A journalist draws on his immersive visits to the remote Indonesian island of the Lamalerans, the world's last subsistence whalers, to profile their way of life and illuminate how their indigenous culture is succumbing to the modern world.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Basil Fawlty is the sharp-tongued, short-fused owner of Fawlty Towers, a hotel plagued by crisis, chaos and bizarre characters. This set collects all 12 episodes of the British comedy, and also includes interviews with the writer and star, John Cleese.
76) La dolce vita
Series
Criterion collection volume 733
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Description
A journalist investigates the lifestyles of Roman high society and is sickened and fascinated by what he discovers.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Liss and the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society get snowed in during a gathering for the Burns Night Supper, old grudges and whiskey heat up the atmosphere. Then a tartan-covered body is discovered in a storage room, and Liss helps her friends sort out the facts before more tempers--and lives--are lost.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything." As the consequent drama unfolds, Edith Wharton's sharp ironic wit...
