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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775–1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of her thirty-seventh birthday, Fran Clark finds herself in a role she would never have envisioned: that of a surprisingly desperate housewife. As Fran halfheartedly attempts to relaunch her once-vibrant career as a voiceover artist and obsesses over keeping up with the ruthless mothers' scene at her children's school, she begins to realize that her thirty-seventh year isn't going to resemble the midlife bliss she had imagined. Instead,...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
Description
Hilda Johansson is a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana, home of the Studebaker family in the year 1900, where she faces the typical problems of an immigrant and the demands of an exhausting yet exhilerating job. Her struggle to be a good servant is compounded when she discovers, on the grounds of the Studebaker estate, the body of a woman just returned from missionary work in China.