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Apartment houses Apartment houses Scotland Edinburgh Fiction Dating (Social customs) Fiction Edinburgh (Scotland) Social life and customs Fiction England Social life and customs Fiction Large type books Manners and customs Scotland Edinburgh Upper class England Fiction Valets FictionAusten, Jane
Summary: Presents Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AUSAusten, Jane
Summary: Persuasion is the story of the love between upper-class Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth, who must earn his fortune. Set against the rarefied sensibilities of upper class England of Austen's day, the love story is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSSellet, Amanda
Summary: As a devotee of classic novels, Mary Porter-Malcolm knows all about Mistakes That Have Been Made, especially by her favorite literary heroines. When some new friends seem to be falling for the same tricks employed since the days of Austen and Tolstoy, she starts compiling the Scoundrel Survival Guide, to help them spot red flags in the dating department. But Mary is better at dishing out advice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SELTwain, Mark
Summary: A collection of short stories is accompanied by selections from the novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Life on the Mississippi," as well as an abridgement of Twain's autobiography.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Schott, Ben
Summary: As a member of the Junior Ganymede Club--an association of butlers and valets that is in reality an arm of the British intelligence service--Jeeves must ferret out a Fascist spy, with the help of his hapless employer, Bertie Wooster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Life at Corduroy Mansions, nestled in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood, is as lively as ever. While Berthea Snark scribbles a scathing biography of a Parliament member--her son!--William French frets that his own son will never leave home. And to no one's surprise, clever terrier Freddie de la Hay has sniffed his way into a heap of trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "It's back to Corduroy Mansions--the slightly dilapidated but well-lived-in mansion block in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood--for the third installment in Alexander McCall Smith's newest popular series. There's never a dull moment for the residents ofCorduroy Mansions: Berthea Snark is still at work on her scathing biography of the only loathsome Liberal Democrat member of Parliament--her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCThackeray, William Makepeace
Summary: The story of the amoral beauty Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to climb the social ladder, and her sentimental companion Amelia, who falls for a caddish soldier, presents a panoramic satire of Regency society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THAMedie, Peace A.
Summary: A seamstress in Gana, Afi Tekple is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she comes to live in Accra, Ghana's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDClose, Jennifer
Summary: "A young wife follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington D.C., a city of idealism, ambition and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLOClose, Jennifer
Summary: The story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLOSchott, Ben
Summary: Jeeves and Wooster embark on another elegantly uproarious escapade as spies in service to the British crown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHWalliams, David
Summary: This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth. When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she's determined to discover more. A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime-- from London to the heart of the Arctic!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WALLancaster, Jen
Summary: Jen Lancaster shares her humorous views of life in the city, recounting some of her most memorable experiences living in Chicago and explaining why city life is nothing like what it is portrayed as on television.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCASTER, JEN LANCampbell, Curtis
Summary: "A laugh-out-loud YA debut that examines the realities of small-town queer life and celebrates the transformative power of drag--perfect for fans of RuPaul's Drag Race and Pumpkin. Peter Thompkins needs a public image overhaul. After a tense confrontation with one of the few other queer kids in his small-town high school, rumors about him are becoming more elaborate by the day. Meanwhile, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow. Meanwhile, Matthew, her boss at the art gallery, attracts the attention of the police after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCrespo, Alex
Summary: Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to surprise him with a queerceañera, a coming out party to celebrate him. Between all the talks of tastings and venues, and the chirping of his family's RSVP texts, the question of who will be his chambelán is on everyone's minds. What Joaquin is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. They have just sat down to tea when their hostess, Eva Lindquist, proposes a dare. Who among them would be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEAChao, Gloria
Summary: Chloe Wang is nervous to introduce her parents to her boyfriend, because the truth is, she hasn't met him yet either. She hired him from Rent for Your 'Rents, a company specializing in providing fake boyfriends trained to impress even the most traditional Asian parents. Drew Chan's passion is art, but after his parents cut him off for dropping out of college to pursue his dreams, he became a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHAMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: It's not that poor Bertie Pollock is wishing his life away, but having anticipated his seventh birthday for so long he's now longing to be eighteen. But before then there's a lot of living to do and Bertie is not alone amongst the residents of Scotland Street in trying to do just that--with mixed fortunes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Excitement abounds when the revolving door of life brings fresh faces and hilarious new developments to the residents of Edinburgh's fictitious 44 Scotland Street"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCPerelman, S. J. (Sidney Joseph)
Contents: Introduction: Perelman, the Pearl of Providence / by Adam Gopnik -- Sketches and Satires. Puppets of passion: a throbbing story of youth's hot revolt against the conventions -- Those charming people: the latest report on the Weinbloom reptile expedition -- Scenario -- Strictly from hunger -- The love decoy: a story of youth in college today-awake, fearless, unashamed -- Waiting for Santy: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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Summary: "Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare. The longsuffering Bertie, on the cusp of his seventh birthday party, has taken to dreaming about his eighteenth. Matthew and Elspeth struggle to care for their triplets in this visit to 44 Scotland Street"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Summer has come to Scotland Street. The long days have prompted its denizens to engage in flights of fancy. Some, like the Duke of Johannesburg's plan to create a microlite seaplane, are literal flights, and some, like the vain Bruce Anderson's idea of settling down with one of his many admirers, are more metaphorical. With the domineering Irene off pursuing academic challenges, Stuart and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020