A Christmas Carol
The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 316
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: christmas, ghosts, ghost stories, england, misers, scrooge, ebenezer (fictitious character), cartoons and comics, poverty fiction, ghosts fiction, misers fiction, christmas fiction, great britain, england fiction, christmas stories, poor families, sick children, london (england), scrooge, ebenezer (fictional character), didactic fiction, animated films, closed caption video recordings, dvds, poor, family life, sick, christmas stories, ghost stories, audiobooks [X], scrooge, ebenezer, fiction, juvenile works, holidays, film novelizations, audiobooks, compact discs, jewish holidays, fasts and feasts, christmas fiction
A Tale Of Two Cities
Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 309
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130
subjects: historical fiction, war stories, paris (france), london (england), france history revolution, 1789-1799 fiction, france, war, fiction, friendship, loyalty, revenge, french, executions and executioners, fathers and daughters, lookalikes, audiobooks, french fiction, dickens, charles, cartoons and comics, father-daughter relationship, audiobooks [X], war stories, historical fiction, man-woman relationship, war fiction, paris (france) $x history $y 1789-1799, electronic books, father-child relationship, compact discs, man-woman relationships
Romeo And Juliet
Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years.
822.3
year: 2019
copies: 226
call number/section: 822.3
lexile: 380
subjects: romeo (fictitious character), juliet (fictitious character), vendetta, youth, romeo (fictional character), verona (italy), tragedy, tragedies, love stories, shakespeare, william, conflict of generations, young adult drama, english, man-woman relationships, english drama, plays, english literature, drama, children's plays, english, love, cartoons and comics, audiobooks, man-woman relationship, english drama (tragedy), italy, shakespeare, william, criticism and interpretation, graphic novels, juliet (fictional character), compact discs, romeo, juliet, tragedies (drama), audiobooks [X], drama
The Communist Manifesto
Presents the 1848 treatise on the economic, political, and social conditions of the working class, which served as the platform of the Communist League; and includes an essay on the manifesto from the perspective of 150 years of history.
335.4
year: 2020
copies: 35
call number/section: 335.4
lexile: 1360
Great Expectations
Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: young men, england, dickens, charles, orphans, coming of age, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, benefactors, youth, bildungsromans, great britain, man-woman relationships, revenge, historical fiction, closed caption video recordings, closed captioning, dvds, audiobooks, working class, inheritance and succession, literature - adapted, gifts, bildungsromane, audiobooks [X], bildungsromans, adaptations, graphic novels, love stories, love, cartoons and comics, conduct of life, industrial revolution, social classes, electronic books
The Scarlet Letter
This is a book I really enjoyed because of the discriptive words used to explain what is happening are used in a very good way.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 434
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 410
subjects: prynne, hester (fictitious character), puritans, adultery, women, triangles (interpersonal relations), illegitimate children, women immigrants, married women, boston (mass.), adultry, puritans fiction, new england fiction, illegitimacy, wives, united states, hawthorne, nathaniel, prynne, hester (fictional character), massachusetts, clergy, new england, audiobooks, social values, large type books, immigrants, graphic novel graphic novels, puritains, fiction, digital audiotape recorders and recordings, audiobooks [X], playaway (digital audiobook), revenge, historical fiction, large print books, man-woman relationships, man-woman relationship, historical fiction, compact discs, electronic books, psychological fiction, didactic fiction