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2000., Vintage Contemporaries Call No: Fic Str Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a small town in New England, a girl has an affair with her schoolteacher. Amy Goodrow lives with her protective single mother and the novel examines the way the scandal affects their relationship.
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2005, p1985., BBC VIdeo ; Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Bleak Edition: Standard format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Presents Dickens's 1853 novel which tells the story of several generations of the Jarndyce family who wait in vain to inherit money that is tied up in a legal dispute in England's notoriously slow-moving Court of Chancery.
![Bleak House [DVD] (1985). Directed by Ross Devenish.](/Library/images/~imageCT72513.JPG "Bleak House [DVD] (1985). Directed by Ross Devenish.")
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2011., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 306.8742 H755b Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Lemmie, Asha2020., Dutton Call No: Fic Lem Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents' imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her shameful skin. The illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Though her grandparents take her in, they do so only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life for what it is, despite her natural intellect and nagging curiosity about what lies outside the attic's walls. But when chance brings her legitimate older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him the first person who will allow her to question, and the siblings form an unlikely but powerful bond-a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it-a battle that just might cost her everything.
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2012., Duke Classics Click to access digital title. Sample Summary Note: In the puritanical Boston of the 17th Century, a woman gives birth after committing adultery. That woman, Hester Prynne, choses to create a new life for herself in the face of adversity rather than succumb to what is expected of her. She will not name the father. Her decision opens up the tension between religious life and the true grace of God, and between personal guilt, religious sin and legal guilt. The novel is prefaced by a "real" account of the author finding notes on a case similar to Hestor's in a Custom House, from which he fashioned the story. The preface is to be read as fictional.
![The scarlet letter [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT102761.JPG "The scarlet letter [eBook]")
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2009., Sourcebooks Casablanca Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: SEALedSummary Note: Can the strength of her love temper his need for revenge? He'll do anything to move the mission forward, no matter the cost... Navy SEAL Caleb Delaude is deadly charming. When he discovers that professor Emmie Caddington's personal connections can help him get the dirty work done, he sets out to win her over. But her quick intelligence and quirky personality sure do start to get under his skin... She may just be the key to his salvation... Emmie's smart and independent and isn't looking for a brawny guy to take over her life. But this rugged Navy SEAL, who seems so determined to get close to her, hides a fi erce intelligence and deep sensitivity. When plans go wrong and a child's life is on the line, Emmie learns what it means to be a SEAL in action, and Caleb discovers that even a hero can get hurt sometimes...
![SEALed with a promise [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76365.JPG "SEALed with a promise [eBook]")
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2010., Simon & Schuster Call No: MYS Fic Cla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. Catherine' s granddaughter Monica has no idea that her grandfather was the famous doctor Alex Gannon, and Alex's greedy nephews Greg and Peter Gannon will stop at nothing to keep Monica from learning that she is the rightful heir to the Gannon family fortune.
