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1) Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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As she arrives at Bridal Veil Island with the Bridgeport family, Callie DeBoyer's just received a letter from her parents, missionaries in coastal Africa, stating they are in dire need of more personnel. Should she give up her governess job and join their important work? When she enrolls young Thomas Bridgeport in golf lessons, Callie meets Wesley Townsend, who urges her to take lessons as well. Callie comes to care for Wesley - until she discovers...
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[2007]
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4 videodiscs (ca. 810 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Collinwood's surly caretaker, Matthew Morgan, informs Victoria Winters that he believes the ghost of Josette Collins and other spirits inhabit the estate. Elizabeth Collins Stoddard confides to Victoria some of the legends involving Collinwood and Widows' Hill. Carolyn Stoddard and Victoria spot a body floating at the bottom of the cliff and Victoria soon experiences a strange premonition. A ghost emerges from the Old House on the Collins family property....
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"From abducted... ...to betrothed! To stop an unsuitable elopement, Tobias Spenlow bundles his ward's intended bride into his carriage--only to discover he's made a terrible mistake. The woman is actually innocent governess Miss Dorothy Phillips--whose reputation he's unintentionally ruined! The only way to right this wrong is for the earl to wed her. She might have accidentally become his countess, but their consuming attraction has him courting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.
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[2007]
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4 videodiscs (ca. 840 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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These rare, early episodes of the television series begin with Victoria Winters' arrival in Collinsport, a small and stormy fishing village on the coast of Maine. An orphan in search of her identity, Victoria is befriended by a stranger named Burke Devlin. At the eerie Collinwood mansion, Victoria meets reclusive matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, her aloof brother Roger Collins, his troubled ten-year-old son David, and Elizabeth's rebellious teenage...
10) Jane Eyre
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[2014]
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Orphaned as a child, a determined Jane Eyre struggles through hardship and brutality to gain an education. Hungry for adventure, she takes a job as a governess at the sprawling Thornfield Hall, where the master is the harsh, enigmatic Mr. Rochester. Despite his brooding ways, Jane finds herself falling in love. But something stalks the halls of Thornfield that threatens to destroy any happiness they might find together.
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Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
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[2015]
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IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
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391 pages ; 22 cm
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Presents the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" as told by young Teddy's governess, who came to work at the Vaughn family "cottage" shortly before a golden-haired girl, ragged and dirty, entered the home and soon became a beloved foster child, until evil characters tried to take her away.
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Unlikely duchesses volume 3
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Tessa James has worked and planned tirelessly to open her own millinery shop. All she needs now is a loan from the lord who sired and abandoned her. The only problem is, she doesn't even know his name. What's a woman to do to find him but enter the aristocratic world by becoming a governess? Guy Whitby, the new Duke of Carlin, has returned to London after years abroad to discover that his young daughter Sophy has become a wild-child known for scaring...
15) Too Wilde to wed
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The handsome, rakish heir to a dukedom, Lord Roland Northbridge Wilde--known to his friends as North--left England two years ago, after being jilted by Miss Diana Belgrave. He returns from war to find that he's notorious: polite society has ruled him "too wild to wed." Diana never meant to tarnish North's reputation, or his heart, but in her rush to save a helpless child, there was no time to consider the consequences of working as a governess in...
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most beloved family film of all time! Rogers and Hammerstein's cinematic treasure stars the incomparable Julie Andrews as Maria, the warmhearted young woman who brings joy and music to Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) and his children. Experience the magnificent movie musical filled with unforgettable songs including 'Do-Re-Mi', 'My Favorite Things' and 'The Sound of Music'" -- Back of container.
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Cornwall novels volume 1
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Cornwall, England, 1811, Blamed for her husband's death, Cordelia Greythorne fled Cornwall and accepted a governess position to begin a new life. Years later her employer's last request is that she watch over his five children. She can't abandon the children now that they've lost both parents, but their new guardian lives at Penwythe Hall, on the Cornish coast she tries desperately to forget. Jac Trethewey is determined to revive Penwythe Hall's once-flourishing...
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Gentlemen of temptation volume 2
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"Miss Miranda is not really a Miss, exactly. Nor is her name Miranda, exactly. But to escape her tyrannical duke of a father, changes were required. Now in the Scottish countryside, employed by her new brother-in-law's unsuspecting friend, Heathcliff Marston, Viscount Kilpatrick, Miranda feels safe--except for the danger of falling in love. And the Viscount's broad shoulders and seductive brogue are no help at all. Certainly, a peer of the realm would...
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Edwardian brides volume 1
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Missionary Julia Foster must return to England due to family illness and readily accepts a job at Highland Hall as governess. Widowed and left to care for his two young children and two nieces, the last thing William Ramsey needs is a distraction coming from the kindhearted-yet-determined governess. Julia and William are determined to do what it takes to save their families. But will William choose Julia's steadfast heart over the wealth he needs...
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