| (Josephine Tey)
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| The body of a young woman, clad in a bright green swimsuit, is found on a beach. Inspector Grant has the help of Erica Burgoyne, the local Chief Constable's daughter, in solving the murder. This is an engrossing story from the doyenne of crime and mystery writers.
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| (George Orwell)
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| This modern classic is an allegory on social revolution. When the animals take over the farm it soon transpires that, while all animals are created equal, some are more equal than others.
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| (George Orwell)
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| This classic novel about a totalitarian regime describes a society where government surveillance, public mind control, and the denial of rights are the norm. Big Brother is always watching.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This is one of a series of books featuring the character Anne Shirley, a fictional character introduced first in the novel Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery wrote in her journal that the idea for Anne's story came from relatives who, planning to adopt an orphaned boy, received a girl instead.
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| (T E Lawrence)
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| This autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918, is considered a modern classic.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This novel is considered one of L. M. Montgomery's few adult works of fiction, along with "A Tangled Web", and is the only book she wrote that is entirely set outside of Prince Edward Island. When twenty-nine-year-old Valancy Stirling is diagnosed with a terminal heart ailment, she rebels against her family and the life they have imposed on her. She then decides to move out of her mother's house and take a position as a housekeeper for Cissy Gay, a childhood friend. Cissy is dying of consumption, but is ostracised from society for having a child out of wedlock, and because of her father, Roaring Abel, and his reckless, sometimes drunken behaviour. [Wikipedia]
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| Inspector Grant is recuperating in hospital, where he begins an inquiry. More than four centuries after the death of King Richard III, Grant is investigating the charge that Richard murdered his two young nephews. The title of the novel is taken from the proverb: "Truth is the Daughter of Time."
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| Similar to her earlier and more famous Anne of Green Gables series, the Emily novels depict life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of consumption.
This is the first story in the series.
Emily is sent to live at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray and her Cousin Jimmy. She makes friends with Ilse Burnley, Teddy Kent, and Perry Miller, the hired boy, who Aunt Elizabeth looks down upon because he was born in 'Stovepipe Town', a poorer district.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| A man is stabbed and killed whilst standing in a queue outside a theatre. Inspector Grant makes his first appearance in a Tey novel when is called in to investigate. In Tey's inimitable style, the plot twists and turns until the final unexpected outcome.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| This is one of a series of books featuring the character Anne Shirley, a fictional character introduced first in the novel Anne of Green Gables. Montgomery wrote in her journal that the idea for Anne's story came from relatives who, planning to adopt an orphaned boy, received a girl instead.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| Similar to her earlier and more famous Anne of Green Gables series, the Emily novels depict life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of consumption.
This is the third and final story in the series.
Emily is sent to live at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray and her Cousin Jimmy. She makes friends with Ilse Burnley, Teddy Kent, and Perry Miller, the hired boy, who Aunt Elizabeth looks down upon because he was born in 'Stovepipe Town', a poorer district.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| In this crime and mystery story, Inspector Grant, who appears in several Tey novels, has only a cameo role. Two sisters are accused, by a fifteen-year-old girl, who has been missing from home for some time. She maintains that she has been held prisoner by the two ladies; tied up and beaten up, and mistreated. Even without Grant, this is an excellent crime/mystery story.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| Similar to her earlier and more famous Anne of Green Gables series, the Emily novels depict life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr, who is raised by her relatives after her father dies of consumption. Emily is sent to live at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray and her Cousin Jimmy. She makes friends with Ilse Burnley, Teddy Kent, and Perry Miller, the hired boy, who Aunt Elizabeth looks down upon because he was born in 'Stovepipe Town', a poorer district.
This is the second story in the series.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| When Leslie Searle disappears, after an argument, Inspector Alan Grant is called in to take charge of a possible case of murder. However, Grant begins to think that Searle is not dead and that he, Grant, is being "taken for a ride." As the cover of an early edition states: "Will keep you up all night to finish it!"
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| (James Hilton)
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| This novel is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet. Robert Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity.
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| (F Scott Fitzgerald)
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| Jay Gatsby is a young millionaire, originally from North Dakota. he has shady business connections and an obsessive love for Daisy Fay Buchanan, whom he had met when he was a young officer in World War I. The narrator, Nick Carraway, records Gatsby's story with its backdrop of corruption, selfishness and violence.
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| (John Buchan)
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| In May 1914, Europe was close to war and spies were everywhere. Richard Hannay is called on for help when a German plot is discovered, to murder the Greek Premier and steal British plans for the outbreak of war.
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| (Josephine Tey)
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| From the doyenne of crime and mystery writers, this story centres on Lucy Pym. Miss Pym has had an unexpected best-seller with a treatise on psychology, as a result of which she has been invited to a girls' school to speak to the pupils. Her stay is extended and days turn into weeks. When tragedy strikes, it is Miss Pym who disposes, that is, who puts things in order.
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| (L M Montgomery)
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| Jane lives with her mother, grandmother, and aunt. A letter arrives from her estranged father, asking that Jane stay with him for the summer on Prince Edward Island, her birthplace. There she has many adventures.
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| (Marcus Clarke)
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| This is the best known novel of life as a convict in early Australian history. The story follows the fortunes of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder that he did not commit. The book clearly conveys the harsh and inhumane treatment meted out to the convicts, some of whom were transported for relatively minor crimes, and graphically describes the conditions the convicts experienced. The novel was based on research by the author as well as a visit to the penal settlement of Port Arthur. [Wikipedia]
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