Teresa Gallagher
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In the New Treasure Seekers, the Bastable children in search of a Fortune continues telling the story of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius Bastable, and their attempts to assist their widowed father and recover the fortunes of their family. The story is told from a child's point of view. The narrator is Oswald.
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The Bastable children are up to yet more adventures in this sequel to The Story of the Treasure Seekers-a delightful classic that will charm children and adults alike The Bastable children have been banished to the country in disgrace-following a particularly damaging reenaction of a jungle scene featuring expensive stuffed animals and a garden hose. The gang of six, Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H.O.), decides to turn over...
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Six children decide that the only way to restore the fortunes of their family is to go out and do it themselves. They produce a series of madcap schemes and one after another try them out with varying degrees of success, most resulting in trouble rather than riches. But then one scheme begins to look more promising than the rest...
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This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic biography of one the greatest English novelists. It illustrates not only the character and opinions of an unusually perceptive and gifted woman, but also the social life amongst the county gentry of Georgian England. Outside her writing, Jane Austen's main interest was her large and affectionate family and their circle of friends. This is the world she so brilliantly...
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From the author of Queen's Gambit, which People magazine called, "A must-read for Philippa Gregory fans, " a gripping historical novel about two sisters who tread as dangerously close to the crown as their tragic sister, Lady Jane Grey, executed after just nine days on the throne. Early in Mary Tudor's turbulent reign, Lady Catherine and Lady Mary Grey are reeling after the brutal execution of their elder seventeen-year-old sister, Lady Jane Grey,...
9) Bleak House
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"In Bleak House, competing claims of love and inheritance--complicated by murder--have given rise to a costly and decades-long legal battle that one litigant refers to as 'the family curse.' The insidious London fog that rises from the river Thames and seeps into the very bones of the characters symbolizes the pervasive corruption of the legal system and the society that supports it, targets of Dickens's satirical wrath"--Page 2 of cover.
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Everything's Rosie volume 6
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Rosie and Will compete to see who can build the best castle. Will and Raggles try to find gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Everything's Rosie volume 11
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Raggles and Will have fun with a metal detector. Rosie makes a weather station to predict the weather.
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Everything's Rosie volume 5
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The friends organize a surprise party for Little Bear. Rosie and her friends bury a time capsule.
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Everything's Rosie volume 7
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The friends go on a pirate treasure hunt. Saffie invites her friends to play musical instruments.
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Everything's Rosie volume 12
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Big Bear enjoys the last of the snowfall. Big Bear accidentally ruins Raggles' new pop-up book!
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Everything's Rosie volume 10
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Will and Archie go on a super spy mission. Rosie's friends discover there's no place like home!
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Everything's Rosie volume 9
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Rosie is concerned when the birds fail to sing the dawn chorus. Raggles instigates a rescue mission when the garden floods.
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Everything's Rosie volume 9
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Rosie invents a new bedtime story for Raggles. Will builds a rocket so Raggles can visit the moon.
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Everything's Rosie volume 2
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Raggles is too sick to go to the annual Fluffy Bug Ball. Big Bear opens a cafe for his friends.
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Everything's Rosie volume 8
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Bluebird wishes she could migrate with the other birds. Can Rosie get to the bottom of Oakley's funny sneezing?
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Everything's Rosie volume 2
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When things start disappearing, Raggles solves the mystery. Will plays practical jokes but Raggles has the last laugh.