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1) Little women
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1300L
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
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Macmillan classics volume 41
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When ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, her aunts find her to be more of a handful than they bargained for. But even more surprising than the transition of Rebecca into a well-mannered young lady are the effects that Rebecca has on her aunts' humdrum lives.
5) Homecoming
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630L
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Abandoned by their father and then their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
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""From New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary comes the captivating story of a wealthy, but unconventional New England family, told from the perspective of a reclusive 29-year-old who has a secret (and famous) life on the Internet. Charlotte Maynard rarely leaves her mother's home, the sprawling Connecticut lake house that belonged to her late stepfather, Whit Whitman, and the generations of Whitmans before him. While Charlotte and her sister,...
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A young girl faces the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them. She learns about...
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"From the author of It's Always the Husband comes a riveting new suspense novel about privilege, power, and what happens when we let ambition take control. When twin sisters Rose and Bel Enright enroll in The Odell School, a prestigious New Hampshire boarding school, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. But the sisters could not be more different. The school brings out a rivalry between them that few ever knew existed. And the school itself...
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Two sisters, Idella and Avis Hillock, living in New Brunswick in the early twentieth century, deal with the joys and trials of their hardscrabble world, including their mother's medical crisis, their father's funeral, Idella's difficult marriage, and a friend's romantic disasters.
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In a quaint New England town with a history of witches and pilgrims, misunderstood eleven-year-old Norman Babcock (who can see and talk to ghosts) must save his town from pilgrim zombies, take on an angry witch, an annoying sidekick, and his boy-crazy teenage sister, as well as dozens of moronic grown-ups who get in his way!
11) Best friends
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Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 4
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As Flora and Ruby near the first anniversary of their arrival in Camden Falls, Flora has to deal with rivalry between Annnika and Olivia, her old and new best friends as the town celebrates it's 350th birthday.
12) Blue moon
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Story of four generations of the Keating family and how the love they share can survive even when crisis hits.
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Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 5
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Someone is leaving books on Flora, Ruby, Olivia, and Nikki's doorsteps. Each comes with a mysterious message asking them to read the book and do something new.
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Sparrow sisters volume 1
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"The Sparrow sisters are as tightly woven into the New England seaside town of Granite Point as the wild sweet peas that climb the stone walls along the harbor. Sorrel, Nettie and Patience are as colorful as the beach plums on the dunes and as mysterious as the fog that rolls into town at dusk. Patience is the town healer and when a new doctor settles into Granite Point he brings with him a mystery so compelling that Patience is drawn to love him,...
15) Born wicked
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Cahill witch chronicles volume 1
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In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.
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Sparrow sisters volume 2
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"At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has honed her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation lands Sorrel an unexpected opportunity: reviving a long-dormant Shakespearean garden on an English country estate. To succeed, she will have to unravel its secrets"--
17) Dark rooms
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"[M]urder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school"--
"Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly--a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession--but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister, Grace, to accept the case as closed. Dropping out of college and living at home,...
18) No such person
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[2015]
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First edition.
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"A murder mystery in a small town raises suspicions when a member of a well-regarded family in the community is implicated"--
19) Amity
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"Two teens narrate the terrifying days and nights they spend living in a house of horrors"--
20) Little women
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Pub. Date
1998
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Unabridged.
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The classic story of beloved matriarch Marmee March and her four daughters--domestic Meg, headstrong Jo, sensitive Beth, and artistic Amy--who grow to adulthood while their father is serving as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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