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2) Persuasion
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Description
Having once given up the man she loved because of family objections, Anne Elliot must come to terms with her feelings when years later they meet again.
Author
Series
Highbury series volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
206 p. ; 22 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury, where she will live with her health-conscious father until she is ready to launch her interior-design business and strike out on her own. In the meantime, she will do what she does best: offer guidance to those less wise in the ways of the world than herself. Happily, this summer brings many new faces to Highbury and into the sphere of Emma's not always perfectly...
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
380 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1854, beautiful, adventurous Rosa Barr travels to the Crimean battlefield with Florence Nightingale's nursing corps--then disappears without a trace. When Mariella Lingwood, Rosa's cousin, leaves her surgeon husband's side to follow the trail of her elusive cousin to Sebastopol, she encounters Rosa's dashing stepbrother, a reckless cavalry officer whose complex past--and future--is inextricably bound up with her own.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Description
Beautiful, clever, rich--and single--Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
In this hilarious retelling of Jane Austen's "Emma," Mr. Knightley is one of the most handsome and noble of the gentlemen village vampires. Blithely unaware of the secret society of vampires that surround her, Emma imagines she has a special gift for matchmaking. But when her dear friend Harriet Smith declares her love for Mr. Knightley, Emma realizes she's the one who wants to stay up all night with him. Fortunately, Mr. Knightley has been hiding...
10) Mansfield Park
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Mansfield Park is a study of three families--the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices--with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose...
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Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
324, 14 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's 1830s England, and Culinarians--doyens who consult with society's elite to create gorgeous food and confections--are the crème de la crème of high society. Helena Higgins, top of her class at the Royal Academy, has a sharp demeanor and an even sharper palate--and knows stardom awaits her if she can produce greatness in her final year. Penelope Pickering is going to prove the value of non-European cuisine to all of England. Her contemporaries...
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