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The story of the tragic Brontë family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addled wastrel of a brother, wildly romantic Emily, unrequited Anne, and "poor Charlotte." Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers such as Mrs. Gaskell who were primarily novelists and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family...
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The year is 1925. Momentous changes threaten the great house, its owners, and its servants, while past scandals continue to loom. Return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season to discover what will finally become of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world. Secrets and rifts threaten the unity of the family, while...
84) Deadheads
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2010
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. What's the secret of Patrick Aldermann's success? Well, he was bequeathed his aunt's gardened estate after her sudden death; his wife's wealthy father died leaving the couple a hefty inheritance; and several fatal mishaps among colleagues have allowed the milquetoast to rise in his company with alarming speed. His boss fears he's hired...
85) Different class
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Pub. Date
2017.
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After thirty years at St. Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, England, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. Each class has its own clowns, rebels, and underdogs--all who hold a special place in the old teacher's heart. But every so often there's a boy who doesn't quite fit the mold. A troublemaker. A boy with darkness inside. With insolvency and academic failure looming, a new headmaster arrives at the venerable school,...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
[2008]
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Some say that Andy Dalziel wasn't ready for God, others that God wasn't ready for Dalziel. Either way, despite his recent proximity to a terrorist blast, the Superintendent remains firmly of this world. And, while Death may be the cure for all diseases, Dalziel is happy to settle for a few weeks' care under a tender nurse. Convalescing in Sandytown, a quiet seaside resort devoted to healing, Dalziel befriends Charlotte Heywood, a fellow newcomer and...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
[2007]
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There was no sign of life. But not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen. Everybody knew that. Therein lay half his power. Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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As World War II begins, London orphan Emmie is unhappy to be evacuated to an old mansion in the Yorkshire countryside until she starts discovering the secrets of the house--a boy crying at night, a diary written by a girl named Mary, and a very secret garden.
90) On Beulah Height
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Inspector Peter Pascoe and Superintendent Andrew Dalziel of the Yorkshire police investigate the disappearance of a girl amid mounting hysteria that a serial killer is back. Earlier, three girls disappeared and were never found.
91) Withering tights
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Self-conscious about her knobby knees but confident in her acting ability, fourteen-year-old Tallulah spends the summer at a Yorkshire performing arts camp that, she is surprised to learn, is for girls only.
92) Angel rogue
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Fallen angels (Mary Jo Putney) volume 4
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
The Rogue...
A master spy with the face of a fallen angel and a darkly heroic past, Lord Robert Andreville returns to his ancestral home in Yorkshire after a dozen harrowing years spying against Napoleon. But nothing soothes his ravaged spirit until a determined young beauty sweeps into his life.
...and the Runaway
Half Mohawk and all American, Maxima Collins is a wary stranger in a strange land, but she will let nothing halt her journey to London...
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
London, 1929. In the darkness before dawn, a railway porter unloading a special train from Yorkshire discovers a man's body, shot and placed in a sack. There are no means of identification to be found, and as Scotland Yard hits a dead end, they call on the inimitable Kate Shackleton, a local sleuth, confident her local knowledge and investigative skills will produce results. But it's no easy task. Suspicion of political intrigue and fears of unrest...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 3
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
After the sudden death of her parents, Mary Lennox is sent from their home in India to the English estate of a distant family friend. Sad and lonely, her only interest lies in a secret garden, abandoned after a tragic accident occurred there. With the help of a local boy and Colin, her guardian's invalid son, Mary's spirit is reawakened as they bring the garden back to life.
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Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Chris Lowndes built a comfortable career composing scores for films in Hollywood. But after twenty-five years abroad, and still quietly reeling from the death of his beloved wife, he decides to return to the Yorkshire dales of his youth. To ease the move, he buys Kilnsgate House, a rambling old mansion deep in the country.Although Chris finds Kilnsgate charming, something about the house disturbs him, a vague sensation that the long-empty rooms have...
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Frederica Potter series volume 4
Pub. Date
2003
Description
This triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatt's great quartet of postwar English life and manners stands on its own as a magical and thought-provoking novel of ideas made flesh. Frederica, the spirited heroine of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower, falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, while tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to split her world. In the late 1960s, the languages of religion,...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Investigating the apparent suicide of a prominent businessman, Yorkshire police officers Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe become suspicious when they discover that the victim's father died in the same manner.
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