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21) Atonement
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Everyman's library volume 360
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English
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"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have...
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Little Elliot volume 4
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English
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Elliot the little elephant and his best friend, Mouse, play hide-and-seek during an autumn vacation in the countryside.
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2016.
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English
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"Daniel Sullivan, a young American professor reeling from a failed marriage and a brutal custody battle, is on holiday in Ireland when he falls in love with Claudette, a world famous sexual icon and actress who fled fame for a reclusive life in a rural village. Together, they make an idyllic life in the country, raising two more children in blissful seclusion until a secret from Daniel's past threatens to destroy their meticulously constructed and...
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Lester family saga volume 1
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English
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Happy with her quiet country life caring for her father and managing her brothers' house parties, beautiful Lenore Lester is determined to resist the advances of the rakish Jason Montgomery, the Duke of Eversleigh.
30) The visit
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Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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When Tony from the city visits the country, neigher he nor the children he meets there, Mark, Emma, and Louis, realize how much they can learn from one another.
31) Penny Dreadful
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[2010]
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English
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When her father suddenly quits his job, the almost-ten-year-old, friendless Penny and her neglectful parents leave their privileged life in the city for a ramshackle property in the eccentric town of Thrush Junction, Tennessee.
36) Barn dance!
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[1986]
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English
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Unable to sleep on the night of a full moon, a young boy follows the sound of music across the fields and finds an unusual barn dance in progress.
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Blackberry Farm volume 1
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English
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When New York City native Becket Branch moves to the country with her family to help run her grandmother's farm and store, she finds that new friends, hostile chickens, sour lemonade, and mischief are only the beginnings of her new life.
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English
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"Meek little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance over a hundred years ago in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures--in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood--continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow up. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame...
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