BBC Radio 4
2) Pole to pole
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2003, p1999]
Language
English
Description
Follows Michael Palin and his crew to the limit as they travel from the North Pole to the South Pole stopping at or traveling through Africa, Antarctica, Europe, South America, and various oceans and seas
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his "counting house" when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals. Yet, it was the incident in the parlor which confirmed Miss Marple's suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme."--Back cover.
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Series
Jeeves and Wooster volume 7
Language
English
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Description
When Bertie Wooster, a blundering, but well-meaning bachelor, returns home to London after spending time in the Canes with his aunt and cousin, he discovers that his valet, Jeeves, has been advising an old friend on love. Gussie, Bertie's school friend, is head-over-heels in love with a young, whimsical lady named Madeline. Unsure what to do with his crush, Gussie turned to Jeeves in Bertie's absence, happy with the help he received. Bertie, however,...
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Series
Cordelia Gray mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Left alone by her partner's suicide, Cordelia Gray struggles to manage the private detective agency they once shared.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction Neil MacGregor and his team at the British Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC, bring us twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare's universe and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I.
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Language
English
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Description
An English country house at Christmas time, with its crackling log fires and fine food, may seem an incongruous setting for a crime -- but a sinister note left on his pillow tells Hercule Poirot everything is not as it seems.
The great detective plays his cards close to his chest -- until the discovery of a young woman lying in the snow, a Kurdish knife in the centre of a crimson stain on her white wrap, spurs Poirot into revealing his
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...
13) War and peace
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812
14) Hard times
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Language
English
Description
Chronicles a bitter indictment of industrialization, with its dehumanizing effects on workers and communities in mid-19th-century England
16) Anna Karenina
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Series
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties--to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical...