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Cousin Bette (Classics library)
Par Honoré De Balzac, David Bellos, Sylvia Raphael. 2013
Lisbeth Fischer, or Cousin Bette, feels she's been wronged - though much of what she perceives may only reside in…
her imagination. Seeking vengeance against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline, she leverages the uncontrollable sexual appetites of her cousin's husband as the linchpin of her plans. 2013, c1846. Uniform title: Cousine Bette.Farmer boy (Little house books. #2.)
Par Laura Ingalls Wilder. 2003
Story about a traditional farm family in upper New York State in the 1860s tells about work, school, and simple…
amusements and introduces nine-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who later married Laura Ingalls. Grades 4-7 and older readers. Originally published in 1933, c2003.Ethan Frome (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics Ser.)
Par Edith Wharton, Doris Grumbach. 1993
A grim tale of retribution told so that it seems a transcription of real life. The three characters are a…
discouraged New England farmer, his hypochondriac wife, and a girl who still finds some joy in living. 1993, 1911.Dead souls (Forsyte chronicles)
Par Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Robert A Maguire. 2004
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town, visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer.…
He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these souls as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. 2004.Babbitt (Recorded Books contemporary classics)
Par Sinclair Lewis. 1998
Satire of American middle-class city life. George F. Babbitt is a successful real estate man, a regular fellow, booster, Rotarian,…
Elk, and a Republican who moulds his opinions on those of the local newspaper and believes in a sound business administration in Washington. 1998.Cousin Rosamund (Aubrey family. #3.)
Par Rebecca West. 1985
Bonheur d'occasion (Québec 10/10. 6)
Par Gabrielle Roy. 1983
Publié en 1945. Un grand classique de la littérature québécoise. Rappelons que "Bonheur d'occasion" raconte l'histoire d'un quartier pauvre de…
Montréal, Saint-Henri, et que les principaux personnages en sont une jeune serveuse de restaurant, un ouvrier de fonderie et un conscrit. c1945, 1983.Centenary at Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; #16)
Par Mazo De la Roche. 1958
Traces the activities of the Whiteoak family in the mid-fifties, a period climaxed by the 100th anniversary celebration of the…
oldest of the family residences. Sequel to "Variable winds at Jalna". 1973, c1958. (Whiteoaks of Jalna saga ; 16)Catherine's heart (Tales of London.)
Par Lawana Blackwell. 2002
Eighteen-year-old Catherine Rayborn is thrilled with her first taste of independence when she begins Girton College in Cambridge in 1880.…
Amidst all the excitement, however, comes the painful realization of the vast difference between true love and shallow. 2002.Caleb's kingdom
Par Essie Summers. 1996
Greta Mountford discovers that her fiance Martin has been having an affair. But before she can break her engagement, Martin…
is killed on the way home. Faced with this double grief, Greta escapes to New Zealand to run a farm while its owner, Caleb Armstrong, is away in Europe. The change of scene works its magic on Greta, but her new-found peace is shattered with the return of Caleb - for his presence is far too disturbing for comfort. 1996.Christmas gifts: Small Town Christmas Her Christmas Cowboy
Par Gail Gaymer Martin, Brenda Minton. 2011
In “Small Town Christmas”, when seven-year-old twins act up in temporary teacher Amy Carroll's class, she meets their very apologetic…
widowed father. The handsome man has his hands full - but can two mini matchmakers and holiday cheer open his heart to Christmas romance? In “Her Christmas Cowboy”, Elizabeth Harden attends a bull-riding event for her dad, where she tries – unsuccessfully - to avoid bull fighter Travis Cooper, a too-handsome heartbreaker. But could her first impression of Travis be mistaken? c2011.Christmas Eve baby (Medical Romance Ser.)
Par Caroline Anderson. 2007
Dr Lucy Tremayne's title is about to change from doctor to mother. She knows she must tell Ben Carter he's…
going to be a daddy by Christmas - but she's running out of time. Why is she stalling? Because she knows that when her secret gets out it will destroy her father. As head of A&E at St Piran Hospital, Dr Ben Carter hasn't seen Lucy since that wonderful, perfect night they shared together. He's been warned to stay away, but now, as he arrives in the picturesque Cornish village of Penhally Bay, he is determined to fight for the woman he loves, and their baby. 2007.Black narcissus
Par Rumer Godden. 1994
Beginning work in the orchards and opening a school and a dispensary for the Himalayan mountain people, the Sisters of…
Mary are dependent for help on the English agent, Mr Dean. But his charm and insolent candour are disconcerting. 1994, c1939.Ballet shoes: the story of three children on the stage
Par Noel Streatfeild. 1959
At odds with love
Par Betty Neels. 1993
Nikolaas van der Vollenhove was a workaholic surgeon, who didn't need complications in his well ordered life, yet he went…
out of his way to help Jane when she badly needed a friend, which seemed to indicate that he was interested in her. However, his subsequent proposal of marriage was not that of a man head over heels in love. Had Jane any hope of changing his feelings? 1993.Antic hay
Par Aldous Huxley. 1923
All else confusion
Par Betty Neels. 1982
Probably Annis should never have married Jake Royle: he had said from the start that he didn't think that love…
was necessary to make marriage work - meaning that he didn't love her! But she loved him even more than she loved her own family. 1982.A walk to remember
Par Nicholas Sparks. 1999
Fifty-seven-year-old Landon thinks back to 1958, the year that changed his life. Pious, bible-carrying Jamie Sullivan asks seventeen-year-old Landon to…
costar with her in the Christmas play written by her preacher father. As they spend time together, Landon is shocked to realize he's falling in love. Bestseller. 1999.A tangled web
Par L. M Montgomery. 1931
Over the years, members of the Dark and Penhallow families have married and feuded. When Aunt Becky, the eccentric matriarch…
of the Dark and Penhallow families, bequeaths an heirloom, a brown jug, many secrets are revealed. For junior and senior high readers. 1989, c1931.A rebel princess
Par Barbara Cartland. 1985
Balkan Princess Tora has been promised in marriage to an elderly king. She is horrified at having to marry a…
man she has never met. Disguising herself, she goes to the palace as a musician, where she has many adventures, and discovers true love. 1985.