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Mr. Bennet's five eligible daughters will never inherit their father's money. Neither will their scatterbrained mother. The family fortunes are destined, in the absence of a male heir, to pass to a cousin, William Collins, a pompous parson. Should one of the daughters marry him? Or is there a chance for the rich empty-headed bachelor Charles Bingley? And what about the aristocratic and supercilious Fitzwilliam Darcy? Yet both these men seem less exciting...
2) The warden
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When John Bold decides to challenge corruption in the Church of England he sets the whole town of Barchester ablaze with the consequences. This book is the study of conflicting loyalties and principles in a cathedral city where the gentle warden becomes an unwilling focus of national controversy.
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When Jim Hawkins discovers a dead man's map it's not long before he's off to sea in search of distant treasure. But it seems trouble boarded the ship with him, in the shape of the ship's cook, Long John Silver, who is leading a mutinous band of pirates who want the treasure for themselves and will do anything to get it.
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When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. 18 years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become mayor. Although he's spent most of his life attempting to repent for his actions, he remains a rash and impetuous man.
12) Brick Lane
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In this tale of two Muslim sisters Monica Ali explores how they live out their own personal tragedies. One lives in a tower block in London's East End whilst the other lives in a Bangladeshi village.
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Doctor Manette, a prominent French Doctor, must flee Paris in the midst of the chaos that has ensued in what became known as the Reign of Terror. Fearing further persecution from his 18 maddening years of imprisonment in the Bastille of Paris, Doctor Manette hurriedly leaves France to be with the daughter he's never met.
14) The crime trade
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When Operation Surgical Strike - a police sting designed to catch Colombian drug traffickers - goes horribly wrong, suspicion quickly falls on 'Stegs' Jenner, one of the officers involved. But Stegs is no ordinary undercover cop. Something of a maverick, with a disciplinary record, he's always lived life on the edge.
16) Judy Moody
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Bad moods, good moods, even back-to-school moods - Judy has them all. Meet Judy, her little bother, Stink, her best friend Rocky and her pest friend, Frank Pearl, and read all about their adventures.
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Harvard Professor Robert Langton, visiting Paris, is called in when the curator of the Louvre is murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling codes. Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are amazed to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and beyond.