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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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Description
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...
2) The Ask
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After he loses his job as a development officer at a university, family man Milo Burke is given a chance to regain his position, but only if he can reel in a potential donor, one who has requested his involvement and turns out to be his sinister college classmate.
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Lily Farnsworth can thank a mysterious benefactor for the chance to open her own flower shop in Bygones, Kansas. But Tate Bronson is the biggest challenge the relocated Boston attorney has ever faced. Forget about tossing out the welcome mat--the handsome widowed rancher seems determined to keep Lily at arm's length. As everyone buzzes over the identity of the anonymous donor, Lily's doing her part to revitalize the struggling town. With the help...
5) Mrs. God
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood's past, and the Seneschal children were often so pale and sickly, but don't all English manor houses have a few ghost stories to call their own? When Professor William Standish receives the rare honor of an Esswood Fellowship, he is thrilled beyond his wildest ambitions. But something seems slightly off at Esswood House. He hears faint laughter in the halls, the pitter-pattering of small feet in...
Author
Series
Annie's Attic mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Annie Dawson has had many mysteries thrown at her since moving to Stony Point, Maine, but nothing has matched this one. A mysterious benefactor is leaving generous gifts for various Stony Point residents, each one accompanied by a handwritten note saying, "Early Merry Christmas, from Stony Point's Santa." Annie would leave the philanthropist alone to do his or her good deeds, if it weren't for the fact that more and more people from the small seaside...
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"This Norton Critical Edition, edited by the pioneer of Great Expectations scholarship, presents the most thorough textual edition of the novel (1861) available. The newly established text is based on all extant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays. Backgrounds provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included....
Author
Series
Girls from the mountain volume 3
Publisher
Faith-Filled Fiction
Pub. Date
[2018], ©2018
Language
English
Description
Martha Palmer, the generous benefactor of Palmer House—a most extraordinary refuge for young women rescued from prostitution—has died. Denver society turns out in strength to honor the elderly woman, as do many of the young women who have lived, at some point during the past decade, under the roof of Palmer House and under the steady and godly leadership of Rose Thoresen. For Sarah Ellinger, Rose’s trusted right hand, an invitation to the reading...
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