James Wilby
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad.
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The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as...
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"After his mistreatment at the hands of his brother, William Crimsworth is relieved of his employment as a clergyman and offered a position at an all-boys boarding school in Belgium. Soon, word of his proficiency as a professor spread and he is offered a second position in a neighboring all-girls school. He accepts the offer and discovers that there is something special to one of the teachers named Frances?"--Amazon.
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
"...Batra has found various deft ways of making Barnes's points about time and memory..."--Globe and Mail.
"...a contemplative but compelling tale about regret, remorse and redemption."--Toronto Star.
"It's a cozy movie with a decidedly un-cozy message..."--Washington Post.
7) Gosford Park
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
The lives and interactions among a group of upper class and their servants at a weekend hunting party in the English country, and a mysterious murder that occurs among them.
Pub. Date
c2010
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The Sign of the Beaver - Keith Carradine and Annette O'Toole head an outstanding cast in this gripping coming of age survival saga in the tradition of My Side of the Mountain. A colonial family seeks a new life in the uncharted Maine wilderness in 1768.
The Legend of Tillamook's Gold - Julie (Suzanne Marie Doyon), a lonely fourteen-year-old, is in for the most amazing summer of her life when she finds an ancient coin on the beach and uncovers a local...
10) Adam Bede
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.
13) Regeneration
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In the midst of WWI, Edinburgh's Craiglockhart Hospital is crowded with traumatized soldiers scarred by the horrors of battle. Dr. William Rivers, the hospital psychiatrist who hovers on the edge of a nervous breakdown as he attempts to 'cure' the incurable.
14) Maurice
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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E.M. Forster's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates that fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.
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[2018]
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Forensic pathologist Professor Sam Ryan has always delved into the past lives of the corpse she examines. But the discovery of her long-lost son confirms that that it's time to confront her own past, and her future, and move on. Harry and Leo are her obvious successors, but what will they make of new recruit Nikki Alexander?