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Series
Language
English
Description
This Western from prolific author Max Brand is a classic revenge story that is sure to please readers who are hankering for a solid dose of action-packed adventure. Riders of the Silences recounts the tale of hardened gunslinger Red Pierre, who will stop at nothing to exact vengeance on the ne'er-do-well who killed his father.
3) Bleak House
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Bleak House defies a single description. It is a mystery story, in which Esther Summerson discovers the truth about her birth and her unknown mother's tragic life. It is a murder story, which comes to a climax in a thrilling chase, led by one of the earliest detectives in English fiction, Inspector Bucket.
7) Son of Stone
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A new addition to the New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington series. After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he's looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. But Arrington has other plans for Stone ... including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage...and finds a cutting from a London society magazine, with a photograph of her supposedly deceased father dated all of three month before. He's an earl, respected and influential, and he is standing...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Felicity, a minstrel sworn to the truth, tells the ill-fated love story of the stubborn and indulged Princess Caution and the stableboy Lostler, a former Chalcedean slave and the piebald horse bound to him by the magic of Wit, which gives him the power to communicate with animals.
16) The new year
Author
Publisher
John Day Co
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
Set in the United States and in Korea. A woman brings back her husband's illegitimate son from Korea.
17) My fair princess
Author
Language
English
Description
Ordered home to England to find a suitable husband, willful beauty Gillian Dryden, the illegitimate daughter of a prince, is sent to the Duke of Leverton to be transformed from a tomboy into a blushing debutante, but her outrageous behavior sets the town on its ear and brings the Duke to his knees.
18) Jude the obscure
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Jude the Obscure tells the story of a stonemason, tricked into a loveless marriage, who craves a formal education and a finer existence. Separated from his wife, Jude begins a new life with his cousin, and the couple defies social convention at every turn.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An embittered wanderer comes to a remote island in the South Pacific where he fathers a child out of wedlock with a native woman. After her death, he abandons his daughter but returns years later to find that she is in love with an American pilot who crashed on the island.