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"Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen--and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to connect...
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Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she's sad to be leaving Marilla and the twins, she's excited to finally become a full-fledged BA, and to embark on new adventures with the other Avonlea folks attending Redmond-a group that includes her friend Gilbert Blythe. At Redmond Anne meets Philippa Gordon, a frivolous but charming girl who pulls Anne into the center of the Redmond social scene. As Anne becomes the object of several boys' affection,...
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Anne of Green Gables volume 7
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When widower, John Meredith and his four children move to a new town, they quickly bond with Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley and Rilla Blythe. Despite their questionable reputation, they become close friends spending time at a place called, Rainbow Valley.
Anne and Gilbert Blythe are happily married with six children. Similar to their parents, Jem, Walter, Nan, Di, Shirley and Rilla are bright, kind and extremely perceptive. They soon meet a new...
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"Anne's true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and they are about to be married in the orchard of Green Gables. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor. A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises"--
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First published in 1915, "The Song of the Lark" is a novel by American author Willa Cather and perhaps her most autobiographical work.
"The Song of the Lark" tells the story of Thea Kronborg, a young Scandinavian-American woman's awakening as an artist against the backdrop of the western landscape,...
11) Evening class
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Hoping to revitalize a dead-end career, Latin teacher Aidan Dunne is forming an evening Italian class. But the prospect of attracting students to his small secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin is daunting --until the appearance of Signora. This mysterious Irish woman, who speaks fluent Italian, has a contagious passion for Italy and for life. When she agrees to teach the class to a motley group of Dubliners, the consequences are life-altering...
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Rilla of Ingleside (1921), by L.M. Montgomery is the eighth of nine books in the Anne of Green Gables series and the sixth "Anne" novel published. Set during World War I, it focuses on Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter, "Rilla" Blythe, and details her life in Glen St. Mary while her brothers and many of the local young men fight overseas. It is notable for being the only Canadian novel about WWI written from a woman's perspective, and also for...
14) Main Street
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Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
15) Rabbit hill
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New folks are coming to live in the Big House. and the animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
16) Tuck everlasting
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The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
18) Scarlet Feather
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Two friends struggle to balance their personal and professional lives in this charming novel from acclaimed author Maeve Binchy. They met in cooking school and became fast friends with a common dream. Now Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather hope to take Dublin by storm with their newly formed catering company, aptly dubbed "Scarlet Feather." Not everyone, however, shares their optimism. Cathy's mother-in-law disapproves of both Cathy and her new "hobby,"...
19) The glass lake
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Best-selling author Maeve Binchy not only has many best-selling novels but she is also considered to be one of the finest literary authors of contemporary women's fiction. Set in Lough Glass, Ireland, The Glass Lake is an incandescent novel of family love, belonging, and secrets that flourish in the human heart. Lough Glass is the lake at the heart of the small Irish town that bears its name. Serene and dark, its waters harbor secrets as deep and...
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I can read book volume level 3
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Minnie and Moo dress up like two Cupids and deliver Valentine's Day poems to everyone on the farm.
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