"This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver,Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of
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Author:Eliot, George
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Author:Eliot, George
Summary:In rural nineteenth-century England, a weaver, lonely and embittered at the unjust treatment he has received from people he considered to be his friends, finds his only solace in money until he ina
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- Publisher: Crane Library,
Author:Eliot, George
Summary:Sisters Dorothea and Cecilia live in genteel poverty in an English village.
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Author:Eliot, George
Summary:Hailed for its sympathetic and accurate rendering of nineteenth-century English pastoral life, Adam Bede was George Eliot's first full-length novel and a bestseller from the moment of publicat
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Author:Eliot, George
Summary:"Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society."--Container.
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Author:Hind, Andrew
,Da Silva, Maria
Summary:Three titles in Andrew Hind and Maria Da Silva’s acclaimed series on the local history, maritime colour, and even the shadowy side of Ontario’s most picturesque communities.
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Author:Da Silva, Maria
,Hind, Andrew
Summary:Long-dead British soldiers, grieving lovers, an undead priest - Niagara-on-the-Lake’s long and colourful history is kept alive by ghosts of its past.
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Author:Hind, Andrew
,Da Silva, Maria
Summary:Ghost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded.
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Author:Hind, Andrew
,Da Silva, Maria
Summary:One hundred and twenty-five years of steamboating in Muskoka come alive with the anniversary celebration of the RMS Segwun.
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Author:Jacobs, Anna
Summary:Lancashire, 1858. Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy children and adores her husband Frederick.
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- Running Time: 39:43:20Narrator: Anne DoverPublisher: Vision Australia,
Author:Jacobs, Anna
Summary:Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man.
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- Running Time: 34:15:28Narrator: Nicolette McKenziePublisher: Vision Australia,
Author:Jacobs, Anna
Summary:For Mattie Willit, caught in a thunderstorm running away from her bullying stepfather,rescue comes in the form of Jacob Kemble,a widowed farmer living with his two young children.
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- Running Time: 25:32:37Publisher: Association for the Blind of Western Australia,
Author:Jacobs, Anna
Summary:Miranda Fox desperately wants to find the daughter her family took from her when she was young.
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Author:Jacobs, Anna
Summary:Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave home in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless.
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Author:Jacobs, Anna
Summary:Gwynna had fallen from grace once, bearing a stillborn child out of wedlock. Determined to have a respectable future, she finds a position for herself as a nursemaid at Hungerton House.
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- Running Time: 36:33:20Narrator: Anne DoverPublisher: Soundings (Isis), 2006,