The railway children

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9780192758194

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223 p. ; 19,5 cm

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F NES r

Henry VIII and his chopping block

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0-439-21125-5

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942.052092 MAC h

Last night

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9781444756685

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F LEA l

Middlemarch

An epic study of provincial life at a time when England was facing rapid industrialization and increasingly fluid social mobility, Eliot's depiction of the small community of Middlemarch weaves an intricate web of different characters disparate lives as they strive to adapt to the changing world around them. Eliot was one of the first of her female contemporaries to write a novel that dealt wit…

David Copperfield

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The devil and his boy

Tom Falconer is in trouble. Pursued by the notorious criminal Ratsey, Tom soon finds himself alone and hungry on the streets of London. Luckily enough, the mysterious Dr Mobius soon recruits Tom to play an important role in a play to be performed in front of Queen Elizabeth. Tom knows there's something not right about Mobius, but he's willing to take a risk in order to keep his neck out of Rats…

Jude the obscure

Hardy called "Jude the Obscure" "a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit". It is a tale of doomed love and unfulfilled promise that revolves around Jude Fawley, an ambitious and intelligent young man, his cousin Sue Bridehead and his academic mentor Phillotson.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Bathsheba Everdene arrives in the small village of Weatherbury and captures the heart of three very different men: Gabriel Oak, a quiet shepherd; the proud, obdurate Farmer Boldwood; and, dashing, unscrupulous Sergeant Troy. The battle for her affections will have dramatic, tragic and surprising consequences in this classic tale of love and misunderstanding.

Robin Hood

Presents a folk tale of Robin Hood and his band of merry men, who rob from the rich to give to the poor. This work is intended for teenage boys

The stormin' Normans

Awful information about Bill the Conqueror and his bully-boys at the Battle of Hastings and the Crusades. Includes top tips on how to avoid a poisonous plot and more.

The tenant of Wildfell Hall

Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title.

The tenant of Wildfell Hall

A sometimes violent and brutal tale of love and betrayal, separation and reconciliation, set in the familiar Bronte landscape of bleak houses in moorland settings.

Arise Sir David Beckham: Footballer, celebrity, legend - the biography of Bri…

This biography of David Beckham covers his early years playing for Manchester United's first team at the age of 17, and the point at which he became a household name a few years later with a breathtaking goal against Wimbledon. Now, over a decade later, he is the fifth most-capped English player of all time and the only one to score in three different World Cups. Beckham's achievements extend f…

Little women

chronicling the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.

Maps for lost lovers

What follows is an unravelling of all that is sacred to the family, as the pious Kaukab tries desperately to square the traditional justice of her culture with the more personal consequences of their murder.

She rises

Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an eighteenth-century Essex farm, has long been warned of the lure of the sea - after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work as a maid in the naval port of Harwich, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. Fifteen-year-old Luke has been press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. Aching for the girl he…

Wickham's diary

Faced with an uncertain future while his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy is set for life, bad boy George Wickham reveals his inner turmoil and secret motivations in this prequel to Pride and prejudice.

The Black Tower

Disenchanted with his job in the force, Commander Adam Dalgliesh accepts an invitation to visit a friend, a chaplain at a private nursing home, only to discover that his host has died suddenly.

secret agent

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9780007420261

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The story of King Arthur and his knights: retold from the Howard Pyle original

by Tania Zamorsky ; illustrated by Dan Andreasen.

Little Lord Fauntleroy / retold from the Frances Hodgson Burnett origi

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1st

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9781402745782

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151 p. : ill. ; 20 cm

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Classic starts

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The other hand

Summary: The story of Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee, and Sarah, editor of a glossy magazine, who have both been traumatised by terrible experiences in Africa