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  Silas Marner (Legend Classics)

  George Eliot

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  “Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.” 
  Silas Marner is a simple weaver from Lantern Yard, an impoverished area of Northern England. He is the main protagonist who is wrongly accused of being a robber. Silas loses his sweetheart, reputation, and as a result, has to move out of the town. He dedicates the next fifteen years of his life to earning money. Despite developing an unhealthy obsession, he is still the same just and honest person albeit rather stingy by this time as monetary enrichment became the sole purpose of his being. But when injustice strikes again, Silas is about to change his perception of life forever. What he first considers to be the ultimate disaster of his existence, turns into the thing that gives a new meaning to his life. This moral tale will set things in the right place presenting a picture of justice and love that rise above ignorance and greed. 
  The work is regarded as a pastoral novel and a moral tale with fairytale elements. A notable feature is Eliot's representation of the effects of industrialisation. Indeed, upon Silas's return to his home town in his old age, he can barely recognise the town where new buildings and factories have been erected. The author deploys her signature technique of setting the novel in a more distant past, which gives her the advantage of scope and hindsight. Published a year before Hugo's world-famous Les Misérables, Silas Marner tackles many similar tropes as effectively and authentically but in a more condensed form – in particular, finding the meaning in life when there seems to be nothing left to hold on to. 
  The Legend Classics series:Around the World in Eighty DaysThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Importance of Being EarnestAlice's Adventures in WonderlandThe MetamorphosisThe Railway ChildrenThe Hound of the BaskervillesFrankensteinWuthering HeightsThree Men in a BoatThe Time MachineLittle WomenAnne of Green GablesThe Jungle BookThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other StoriesDraculaA Study in ScarletLeaves of GrassThe Secret GardenThe War of the WorldsA Christmas CarolStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeHeart of DarknessThe Scarlet LetterThis Side of ParadiseOliver TwistThe Picture of Dorian GrayTreasure IslandThe Turn of the ScrewThe Adventures of Tom SawyerEmmaThe TrialA Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan PoeGrimm Fairy TalesThe AwakeningMrs DallowayGulliver’s TravelsThe Castle of OtrantoSilas MarnerHard Times

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  Mean Girl Murder

  Leslie Langtry

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  From USA Today bestselling author, Leslie Langtry comes the next assassin-in-suburbia Merry Wrath Mystery . . .  
   
   
   
  The Halloween Parade is coming up, and former CIA agent-turned-suburbanite Merry Wrath's Girl Scout Troop hopes to repeat a 1st place trophy for the 3rd year in a row. But when they find a dead woman dressed as a witch, a mysterious treasure, and face a ruthless kidnapping, it looks like Merry's in for a different kind of triple threat. 
   
   
   
  To add fuel to her bonfire, Mom's in town—meaning Merry has to replace all that bullet-riddled furniture in the guest room—and with her wedding date approaching, her groom-to-be's twin taxidermist sisters are insisting on doing the decorating. 
   
   
   
  Between her family fiascoes and a dead witch who was loathed by everyone in town, Merry's head is spinning faster than an apple in a bobbing barrel. Who wanted this mean girl dead? Will this Halloween end with a treat? Or has Merry been tricked?

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  Mystery of the Sea

  Bram Stoker

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  Mystery of the Sea is a novel with elements of adventure, supernatural and romance. Archie Hunter goes on a holiday to relax but finds he sees unusual things like spirits and ghosts. An old woman claims she sees them too and that they are both seers. She convinces Archie to help her solve the mystery of the sea. (Summary by Kristel Tretter)

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  You Were Always Home

  C. Lymari

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  Put a finger down . . .-You managed to get the attention of the hottest guy in school. 
  -The day he's supposed to take you on a date, you not only stand him up, but humiliate him. Life goes on. You leave your small town, settle down, and get married. 
  -Five years later, you're back—tail between your legs and a family who turned their backs on you. But it's okay, because you're stronger than ever before. 
  -That hot guy you turned down? He's still there, and for some reason, he's the only one who is talking to you. 
  -As you get closer, you realize that he's always been the one, but you hurt him once, and after all, he doesn't know the whole truth about why you've returned . . . 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Off Balance

  Aileen Erin

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  Nightmares are plaguing me.
  
  I wake up smelling sulfur, feeling my skin burning, knowing that I'm burning to death on the surface of Abaddon, but I'm not. I'm on Sel'Ani, my father's home planet. I'm alive and using my true name and finally free to be myself. And yet, I'm completely falling apart.
  
  Every time I wake up screaming, Lorne is there. I don't understand how he knows when I need him, but he does, and even if I can't say the words aloud, I'm so thankful that he's there. Because I wouldn't survive this without him.
  
  It's not just my nightmares and exhaustion and trauma making this hard.
  
  I thought escaping Earth, Abaddon, and SpaceTech would mean I was safe, but I'm not. The Aunare don't want me here, mostly because if I'm here that means my betrothal to the heir to the Aunare High Throne is back on. I would call it off, but I can't seem to make myself say the words because Lorne is the heir.
  
  
  Everything in me is drawn to Lorne, the man that haunted my dreams, the man that lures me in with his every look, the man that I can't seem to get away from because everywhere I go, every time I need him, he's there.
  
  Lorne makes me forget that the Aunare hate me enough to send assassins to kill me.
  
  I can't resist him. Lorne makes me think that everything is possible, that I will be okay, that I should just say yes to him. Because being with him means that I will eventually become the High Queen of the Aunare, and I'm not sure I can do that job. I'm not sure I should.
  
  Because the Aunare hate me for being a half-Earther, and I'm just one more assassination attempt away from being dead.
  
   
  
  
  From Aileen Erin, the USA Today Bestselling Author of the Alpha Girl series, comes an epic adventure in space: The Aunare Chronicles!
  
  Book1: Off Planet
  
  Book 2: Off Balance
  
  Book 3: In Command (an eBook Novella)
  
  Book 4: On Mission
  
  Book 5: On Destiny
  
   
  
  "Off Balance is a rollercoaster ride with love, lots of emotion, character development and daring action.... Anyone who enjoys a book written by Maria V. Snyder or Kristin Cashore will devour her books. I don't read sci-fi often…but Off Balance took my breath away." - Book Dragon
  "She always catches me off guard with how powerful her books end!...If you're looking for romance, action, and sci-fi, check out this series!" - Reviews by Lenniland
  "I'm dying for the next one." - Amy, FWISD

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  The Big Race and God’s Gifts - A...

  Helen J. Slaughter

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  Tarrence is a rabbit, and Samuel a squirrel. Both Tarrence and Samuel dreamed big. They dreamed of being an athlete and racing in the Olympics Games. Tarrence and Samuel were raised by loving parents, who influenced their families' Christian valves. Samuel was very sky and new at his school. He didn't have any friends at school. Tarrence's mother and Samuel's grandmother wanted them to pursue God in following their big dreams, and they encourage the boys saying, Never give up on your dreams, on matter what! As Tarrence bravely stands up for Samuel when he gets picked on by a big rat named Big Bad John and his bully friends. Tarrence and Samuel's friendship strengthens when both discover they loved running, with big dreams! in their hearts they planed their very own Big Race.

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