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La's Orchestra Saves the World

Alexander McCall Smith · 250 pages

From the best-selling author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a delightful and moving story that celebrates the healing powers of friendship and music.It is 1939. Lavender--La to her friends--decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered marriage. The peace and solitude of the small town she settles in are therapeutic . . .

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Prom and Prejudice

Elizabeth Eulberg · 231 pages

For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows · 278 pages

"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey,

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Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Julia Quinn · 480 pages

E-Book Extras: ONE: Behind the Novel: Romancing Mr. Bridgerton by Julia Quinn; TWO: The Bridgerton Basics: Ms. Quinn Fills You In. Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for...well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret...and fears sh

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The Inheritance

Louisa May Alcott · 149 pages

Set in an English country manor, the story follows the turbulent fortunes of Edith Adelon, an impoverished Italian orphan whose loyalty and beauty win her the patronage of wealthy friends until a jealous rival contrives to rob her of her position. In the locket around her neck, she carries a deep secret about her natural birthright. But an even greater truth lies hidden in Edith's heart - her deep

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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

Jennifer Ryan · 401 pages

Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.

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Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1

Bisco Hatori · 184 pages

A female scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School ends up working for the school's swankiest club after she stumbles upon the all-male Host Club--who mistake her for a boy--and accidentally destroys a valuable vase. While working off her debt, she learns how the other half really lives.

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Only Beloved

Mary Balogh · 400 pages

Relinquishing all hope to marry after a family scandal, music teacher Dora Debbins finds her life forever changed by the arrival of the Duke of Stanbrook, who, unable to forget their meeting a year ago, makes her dreams come true.

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Isla and the Happily Ever After

Stephanie Perkins · 368 pages

Isla has had a crush on classmate Josh since their freshman year at the School of America in Paris, but after a chance encounter over the summer in Manhattan they return to France for their senior year where they are forced to confront challenges every young couple in love must face. As they begin their senior year in France, Isla and Josh are quickly forced to confront the heartbreaking reality

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Noteworthy

Riley Redgate · 384 pages

After learning that her deep voice is keeping her from being cast in plays at her exclusive performing arts school, Jordan Sun, junior, auditions for an all-male octet hoping for a chance to perform internationally.

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A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 224 pages

This is a story about a different kind of princess than one might imagine; a princess that is an orphan - lonely, cold, hungry and abused. Sara Crewe begins life as the beloved, pampered daughter of a rich man. When he dies a pauper, she is thrown on the non-existent mercy of her small-minded, mercenary boarding school mistress. Stripped of all her belongings but for one set of clothes and a doll,

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And Both Were Young

Madeleine L'Engle · 241 pages

Phillipa Hunter, or Flip, doesn't think she'll ever fit in at the Swiss boarding school. Besides still aching after her mother's death and being homesick for her father and Connecticut, she isn't sophisticated like the other girls, and discussions about boys leave her tongue-tied. Her happiest times are spent apart from the others, sketching or wandering in the mountains. But the day she's out

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Love Letters

Katie Fforde · 434 pages

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Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Ally Carter · 272 pages

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Madeline's Christmas

Ludwig Bemelmans · 32 pages

With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas Eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school, and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.

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Molly Story Collection

Valerie Tripp, Nick Backes, Keith Skeen

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Molly Learns a Lesson: A School Story

Valerie Tripp · 67 pages

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The Butterfly and the Violin

Kristy Cambron · 336 pages

Manhattan art dealer Sera James watched her world crumble at the altar two years ago, and her heart is still fragile. Manhattan art dealer Sera James watched her world crumble at the altar two years ago, and her desire for distraction reignites a passion for a mysterious portrait she first saw as a young girl: a painting of a young violinist with piercing blue eyes. Sera crosses paths with Willia

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Hex Hall

Rachel Hawkins · 336 pages

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The Last Time I Saw Paris

Lynn Sheene · 359 pages

A young American woman becomes a spy in Paris during World War II.

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For Such a Time

Kate Breslin · 553 pages

"A powerful retelling of the biblical story of Esther set during WWII: Blond and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin must save her people--even if she cannot save herself"--

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What Katy Did at School

Susan Coolidge · 188 pages

Katy and her sister Clover dread being sent away to boarding school, but discover that being away from home isn't so bad after all.

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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself

Judy Blume · 298 pages

After 10-year-old Jewish Sally Jane Freedman's brother Douglas gets sick with a kidney infection, her family temporarily moves for a year after World War II.

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Harry Potter Boxset

J.K. Rowling

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