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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant desires, inflames her heart, and eventually blinds her...
2) The Tapestry
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Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The Creoles Series tells the stories of four young women who attend the Ursuline Convent School in New Orleans during the early nineteenth century. Each book is a romantic adventure that focuses on one woman as she faces the trials of life and faith. In this striking conclusion to The Creoles Series, Gilbert Morris delivers his award-winning storytelling, told against a cultural background unique to this series alone.Abandoned as an infant on the...
Author
Series
Creoles series volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
For her sixteenth birthday, Damita De Salvado receives a beautiful slave girl, Rissa, but mistreats her, revealing Damita's prejudice and hardening Rissa's heart. When her family experiences financial hardships, Damita grudgingly sells Rissa to a mysterious Christian doctor, Jefferson Whitman, who is Rissa's adopted brother. Now the tables have turned: Rissa is a wealthy, free woman, while Damita's family struggles to keep the plantation. Will both...
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
"For Sissy LeBlanc, 14 years is long enough to wait for something to happen. She's been married to Peewee, since she was barely 17. Now she wants to give life a shove and a shake, to smack it like a pinball machine. She just wants an adventure. God knows she needs one. When she married Peewee, she$1 (Bd promised to be a good and faithful wife. Of course it hadn$1 (Bt been hard to resist temptation, there hadn$1 (Bt been any, but now... Parker Davidson,...
5) The alchemy
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Series
Creoles series volume 3
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Each book in The Creoles Series revolves around one of four girls who become close friends while attending a convent school in New Orleans. The third book, The Alchemy focuses on Simone d'Or, a vivacious young woman hardened by high society life, and Colin Seymour, a talented young man from humble beginnings. As the famed singer and composer Lord Beaufort nurtures Colin's singing voice, Colin rises to stardom in the opera world. At first, Simone judges...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 132
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
Edna Pontellier, a Victorian-era wife and mother is awakened to the full force on her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun, a young man she meets while on vacation.
Author
Series
Landry family series volume 5
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
After being raped by the wealthy Octavious Tate, Gabriel becomes pregnant and spends months locked up in a tiny room at Tate's home while his wife pretends to be expecting in anticipation of claiming Gabriel's baby for her own. Having her child taken from her leaves Gabriel in a deep depression until she falls deeply in love with a man who may bring her even more grief.
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