Jane Austen
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlotte Collins, née Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford's vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Intelligent, pragmatic, and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this life, an inevitable one so socially acceptable that its...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When math genius Emma and her coding club co-president, George, are tasked with brainstorming a new project, The Code for Love is born. George disapproves of Emma's idea of creating a matchmaking app, accusing her of meddling in people's lives. But all the happy new couples at school are proof that the app works. At least at first. Emma's code is flawless. So why is it that perfectly matched couples start breaking up, the wrong people keep falling...
63) Emma
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty and socially inferior Harries arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, Emma persuades Harries to reject a marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon discovers Mr. Elton's true motives and her advice to Harriet goes terribly...
64) Pride and prejudice and zombies: the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton--and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy.
65) Mansfield Park
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
Author
Series
Darcy saga volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
ix, 425 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this sweet and romantic work, Lathan picks up where "Pride and Prejudice" ends. Regency England comes alive as Darcy and Lizzy venture away from Pemberley to journey through England, finding friends, love, and laughter along the way.
69) Northanger Abbey
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
Author
Series
Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Following the birth of their first child, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy are looking forward to enjoying life at Pemberley, but family commitments draw them away to Mansfield Park. While there, the Darcys get involved with marriage arrangements, star-crossed lovers, deceit, mistaken identity, and even murder.
71) Sanditon
Author
Pub. Date
1975.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Heywood suddenly finds herself in a world of elegance, snobbery, romance and intrigue. How can she escape Sir Edward, out-smart her charming competitors and convince Sidney Parker to marry her?
Author
Series
Amish classics volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, book one of The Amish Classics series is a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, covering the same issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage within the Amish community. SERIES DESCRIPTION: The Amish Classics Series is a retelling of novels by Jane Austen in a contemporary Amish setting. The main storylines are accurately followed but told within the Amish culture and religion"--
73) The matchmaker
Author
Series
Amish classics volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 285 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Emma's interference in her friends' lives backfires, will the consequences be more than she bargained for? Set in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, The Matchmaker is an Amish retelling of Emma and covers the same issues of love, relationships, and pride within the community. SERIES DESCRIPTION: The Amish Classics series is a retelling of novels by Jane Austen in a contemporary Amish setting. The main story lines are accurately followed but told...
Author
Series
Darcy saga volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
ix, 333 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
75) Emma
Language
English
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Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town, In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen's Emma has been a favorite novel for Austenites since 1816. In the mid-1990s it became a favorite movie for millions of new admirers. A key reason for Emma's success is that the story has two heroines-Emma Woodhouse and Jane Fairfax. In Austen's novel, Jane's backgound is left obscure, and the turmoil underlying her current reduced circumstances in mysterious. At last we learn her whole story in Joan Aiken's superb retelling of Emma-this...
77) Mary B: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel. I will tell you the story of how I knew myself to be plain and therefore devoid of the one virtue which it behooves every woman to have. What is to be done with Mary Bennet? She possesses neither the beauty of her eldest sister, Jane, nor the high-spirited charm of second-born Lizzy. Even...
78) Sanditon
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Based on the manuscript Jane Austen wrote in the months before her death, "Sanditon" tells the story of the joyously impulsive, spirited, and unconventional Charlotte Heywood and her spiky relationship with the humorous, charming (and slightly wild) Sidney Parker. When a chance accident transports her from her rural hometown of Willingden to the would-be resort of Sanditon, she finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of romance, betrayal, and changing...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
BabyLit is a fashionable way to introduce toddlers to the world of classic literature. With clever, simple text by Adams, paired with stylish design and illustrations by Sugar's Oliver, these books are a must for every savvy parent's nursery library.