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2005., Penguin Call No: Fic Gas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. The novel's narrator (a young woman who periodically visits Cranford) describes the small adventures in the lives of two sisters in reduced circumstances who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. Using an intimate, gossipy voice that never turns sentimental, Gaskell conveys the old-fashioned habits, subtle class distinctions, and genteel poverty of the village.
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2012., Severn House Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Chief Inspector Woodend investigates the death of a night club owner at Swann's Lake, a weekend retreat near Manchester.
![Murder at Swann's Lake [eBook] : a Chief Inspector Woodend mystery](/Library/images/~imageCT75943.JPG "Murder at Swann's Lake [eBook] : a Chief Inspector Woodend mystery")
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2012., Severn House Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Chief Inspector Woodend is called from London to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in a village in Cheshire.
![The Salton killings [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT75560.JPG "The Salton killings [eBook]")
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2016., Adult, The Hogarth Shakespeare/Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Jac Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In The Merchant of Venice, the merchant Antonio borrows from the Jewish moneylender Shylock, whom he openly despises, to help fund his friend Bassanio's wooing of the beautiful, prized Portia. Shylock agrees--but on the condition that Antonio promise in return a pound of flesh should he be unable to repay the debt. When Antonio's ships are lost at sea and it becomes clear he cannot, the case goes to court: Antonio must honour his promise--until an unknown lawyer (Portia herself, dressed as a man) arrives and brilliantly picks the case apart. Jacobson takes the great tale of vengeance and cruelty and propels it through space and time to the shiny modern world of Cheshire's Golden Triangle, where we meet a funny, love-driven, vindictive cast of characters very much from our world, confronting Shakespeare's timelessly urgent questions in the 21st century."--From publisher.
