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"'Fans of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal.' -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people...
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On the heels of completing "Sense and Sensibility," Jane Austen heads to Sloane Street for a monthlong visit with her brother Henry and his wife, Eliza. Hobnobbing with the fashionable at the height of the Season, Jane is well aware of their secrets and peccadilloes. But even she is surprised when the intimate correspondence between a Russian princess and a prominent Tory ex-minister is published in the papers for all to see. More shocking, the...
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Austenland novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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"Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man --perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaption of Pride and Prejudice. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths to her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency era gentleman suddenly becomes more real than she ever could have imagined"--Back cover.
7) Miss Austen
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2020.
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""A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts." -Karen Joy Fowler For fans of Jo Baker's Longbourn, a witty, poignant novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane. Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone, spending her days visiting...
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Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney mysteries volume 2
Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mysteries volume 2
A Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery volume 2
Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mysteries volume 2
A Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery volume 2
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2023.
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"The suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham, which sees Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney reunited, and with another mystery to solve: the dreadful poisoning of the scoundrel Willoughby's new wife. Catherine and Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey are not entirely pleased to be sending their eligible young daughter Juliet out into the world again: the last house party she attended, at the home of the Knightleys, involved a murder-which Juliet...
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Austenland novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Divorced American Charlotte Kinder takes a trip to Regency staged Pembrook Park in Kent where she plays parlor games, learns country dances, and even lets herself be courted by her assigned suitor, the brooding, magnetic Mr. Mallery. But her vacation becomes more Northanger Abbey when she catches a fleeting glimpse of a dead body in a secret room.
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[2015]
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At twenty-five years of age, Anna Eicher has never married. When she was seventeen, her parents convinced her to break off her courtship with Freman Whittmore, the youngest son in the Whittmore family and her best friend. Afterward, a distraught Freman moved away from Lancaster County. Eight years later Freman has returned to visit his sister, who is renting the Eichers' house for the winter. Now the owner of the largest dairy farm in his church district,...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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The young Jane Austen is not particularly interested in getting married, although she does find the mysterious Mr. Lefroy an intriguing possibility--but first she has to deal with the accusation that her cousin Eliza is a French spy, and solve a murder.
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The Amish classics volume 2
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[2015]
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"When Emma's interference in her friends' lives backfires, will the consequences be more than she bargained for? Set in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, The Matchmaker is an Amish retelling of Emma and covers the same issues of love, relationships, and pride within the community. SERIES DESCRIPTION: The Amish Classics series is a retelling of novels by Jane Austen in a contemporary Amish setting. The main story lines are accurately followed but told...
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But no sooner are her belongings unpacked than a strangled corpse is discovered in the cellar. Which of her neighbors had cause to murder shiftless Henry French? And what connection does his death have to the legend of the stolen Chawton Emeralds? As Jane sorts through the personal papers Lord Trowbridge bequeathed to her in his will, she can't keep her mind off the mystery. And lurking just out of sight is someone who will stop at nothing to secure...
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Jane Austen takes the South volume 3
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"A lively Southern retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, featuring Lucy Crawford, who is thrown back into the path of her first love while on a quest to save her beloved family home. Lucy Crawford is part of a wealthy, well-respected Southern family with a long local history. But since Lucy's mother passed away, the family home, a gorgeous antebellum mansion, has fallen into disrepair and the depth of her father's debts is only starting to be understood....
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2022.
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On January 21, 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. At thirty-one years old, she has no previous experience of either teaching or fine country houses. Her mother has died, and she has nowhere else to go. Anne is left with no choice. For her new charge—twelve-year-old Fanny Austen—Anne's arrival is all novelty and excitement.
The governess role is a uniquely awkward one. Anne is neither one...
20) Jane Austen
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c2004
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An introduction to the life and work of eighteenth-century English author Jane Austen, featuring a biographical profile, a critical analysis of the themes, symbols, and ideas that appear in her writing, a selection of critical essays, a chronology, and references.