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1) Bleak House
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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This film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel about the Victorian London legal system presents the beautiful Lady Dedlock who nurses a dark secret in her past, and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn who seeks to uncover it. Then there is the generous John Jarndyce, struggling with his past and his two attractive young wards Richard and Ada. All of them are caught up in the infamous case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond...
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Boxcar children volume 91
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny try to find a human explanation for the missing statues at Skeleton Point.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 89
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The Aldens take part in a hunt at a gem mine and discover that someone is out to sabotage the contest.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 92
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When the Alden children receive a mysterious message signed by the "Tattletale," they begin to ask questions about a snapdragon that appears in a number of paintings at the local gallery.
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 1
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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McKinney March Madness
MID Once Upon A Summer Reading
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Womens History Month - MID
MID Once Upon A Summer Reading
Staff Recommends- MID/JF
Womens History Month - MID
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After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
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Sisters Grimm volume 1
Language
English
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Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
10) Eve
Author
Series
Eve trilogy (Anna Carey) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
In 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus has wiped out most of the earth's population, Eve discovers the terrible fate that awaits students when they graduate from their all-girls school, and she sets off on a treacherous journey into the wilds of The New America, searching for a place where she can survive.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that's what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king's ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place - while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins. Even as...
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Boxcar children volume 25
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.
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Series
Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 1
Language
English
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"The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable...
20) Meet the Austins
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Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The life of the Austin family is changed by the arrival of self-centered young Maggy Hamilton, orphaned by the sudden death of her pilot father.
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