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[2015], Adult, Thomas Nelson Call No: Fic Lad Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A treasures of Surrey novel Volume: 1Summary Note: "Born into two different classes, James and Camille shouldn't even know each other. But when the pursuit of a missing ruby brings them together, much more than a mere acquaintance is ignited. The daughter of a curiosity shop owner, Camille would never be considered a lady. Nor does she want to be. With a fiery personality, she dreams of adventures far beyond the walls of her family's modest business. But when her father thrusts a mysterious box into her hands and disappears, her whole world--dreams and all--shifts. James is an apothecary, tending to the health needs of the town of Bentworth. His father, a well-known explorer and collector, is quite wealthy from the spoils of his adventures until one risky gamble and a stolen gem leave him on the edge of ruin. Seeking his father's approval, James picks up the hunt for the stolen ruby, leading him to the door of Camille's curiosity shop. With both of their lives in danger as the ruby remains at large, James squires Camille away to the Bentworth School, believing that would be the last place her pursuers would look for her. They both find their hearts and dreams heading in a new direction, but before they are free to embrace their future they must solve the mystery looming around them. The more they uncover, however, the harder it becomes to know whom to trust. And they begin to realize that recovering the ruby may require a great sacrifice: their newfound love and maybe even their lives."--From publisher.
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2012., Vintage Books Call No: Fic Dic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of an abandoned waif who discovers life and love in an indifferent world, this classic tale of childhood is populated with a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains who number among the author's greatest creation.
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Adult Call No: LP Fic Dic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Great illustrated classicsSummary Note: In his early childhood days, a young boy, David Copperfield, had been living with his mother and their servant Peggotty. His mother marries a very cruel man, Mr. Murdstone and David is being sent away to Salem House where it is not very safe at all. It was a run-down London boarding school where Mr. Creakle beats up young boys. David's mother soon gives birth to a son by Mr. Murdstone. Unfortunately she dies after a while. David was dragged out of school and was forced to work at a wine warehouse with Mr. Murdstone. David runs from work and lives with his great-aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood, where he lives a happier life. She soon adopts him and sends him off to Dr. Strong's school in Canterbury. When David was done with his education at Dr. Strong's school, he goes to work at the law firm of Mr. Spenlow and Jorkins. He meets his significant other, Dora Spenlow and falls in love with with her. After that, they were engaged to each other. They had their very first child but Dora becomes ill and dies after giving birth, along with the child. It was a sad life for David but he tries to move on. He had traveled abroad for several years and realizes he truly loves this other woman, Agnes Wickfield. David becomes a famous writer and marries Agnes. They live happily ever after along with their friends.
![David Copperfield [LP]](/Library/images/~imageCT81451.JPG "David Copperfield [LP]")
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1992., Everyman's Library Call No: Fic Dic Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryOnline study guide Series Title: Penguin classicsSummary Note: Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style and is the story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood and trying to be a gentleman along the way. Novel follows Pip's development through life after an early meeting with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch, who he treats kindly despite his fear. His unpleasant sister and her humorous and friendly blacksmith husband, Joe, bring him up. Crucial to his development as an individual is his introduction to Miss Havisham, a now aging woman who has given up on life after being jilted at the altar. Cruelly, Havisham has brought up her daughter Estella to revenge her own pain and so as Pip falls in love with Estella she is made to torture him in romance. Aspiring to be a gentleman despite his humble beginnings, Pip seems to achieve the impossible by receiving a fund of wealth from an unknown source and being sent to London with the lawyer Jaggers. He is employed but eventually loses everything and Estella marries another. His benefactor turns out to have been Magwitch and his future existence is based upon outgrowing the great expectations and returning to Joe and honest laout. Eventually he is reunited with Estella.
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By Hornby, Nick1996, c1995., Riverhead Books Call No: Fic Hor Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library
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-- Avant toi2016., Adult, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Me before you Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Louisa Clark lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26 year old goes from one job to the next in order to make ends meet. Taking a job at the local castle she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident. Embarking together on a series of adventures, both Lou and Will get more than they bargained for.
![Me before you [DVD] (2016). Directed by Thea Sharrock](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Me before you [DVD] (2016). Directed by Thea Sharrock")
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2012., General, Shout Factory Call No: DVD Fic Portrait (1996) Edition: Special ed., widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Archer Isabel is a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. Her head-strong innocence is no match, however, for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle and the devious Gilbert Osmond. Based off of the novel by Henry James.
![The portrait of a lady [DVD] (1996) Directed by Jane Campion](/Library/images/~imageCT75283.JPG "The portrait of a lady [DVD] (1996) Directed by Jane Campion")
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1999, c1998., Scribner Paperback Fiction Call No: SC Fic Mil Edition: 1st Scribner pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2010., Adult, Twelve Call No: Fic Pom Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Robert Vishniak is the favored son of Oxford Circle, a working-class Jewish neighborhood in 1970s Philadelphia. Handsome and clever, Robert glides into the cloistered universities of New England, where scions of unimaginable wealth and influence stand shoulder to shoulder with scholarship paupers like himself who wash dishes for book money. The doors that open there lead Robert to the highest circles of Manhattan society during the heart of the Reagan boom where everything Robert has learned about women, through seduction and heartbreak, pays off. For a brief moment, he has it all-but the world in which he finds himself is not the world from which he comes, and a chance encounter with a beautiful girl from the old neighborhood-and the forgotten life she reawakens-threatens to unravel his carefully constructed new identity."--Inside jacket.
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1992., Cambridge University Press Call No: Fic Law Edition: Cambridge ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2010., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Ren Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat he invites everyone in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons.... Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell on the occupants of Lichfield House.
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2012., Mira Books Edition: eBook ed. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: When San Antonio becomes a dumping ground for the battered bodies of young women, Texas Ranger Logan Raintree must use his powerful ability to commune with the dead and lead a brand-new group of elite paranormal investigators to solve this disturbing case.
![The unseen [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT77231.JPG "The unseen [eBook]")
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2017., eBOUND Canada Edition: eBook edition. Series Title: Inanna poetry & fiction seriesSummary Note: The Widow's Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen's final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when Austen draws away for the last time and discretely gives an overview of the oncoming marriage between heroine Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth. This, it transpires in The Widow's Fire , is merely the beginning of a journey. Soon dark undercurrents disturb the order and symmetry of Austen's world. The gothic flavor of the period, usually satirized by Austen, begins to assert itself. Characters far below the notice of Anne, a baronet's daughter, have agendas of their own. Before long, we enter into the realm of scandal and blackmail. Anne Elliot must come to recognize the subversive power of those who have been hitherto invisible to herservants, maids and attendantsbefore she can defend her fiancé from an accusation too dreadful to be named. Captain Wentworth himself must learn the skills of living on land; the code of honour and secrecy which has protected him on deck no longer applies on the streets of Bath.
