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The Terror by Dan Simmons
In the balmy days of May 1845, 129 officers and men aboard two ships – Erebus and Terror – departed from England for the Canadian Arctic in search of a Northwest Passage to the Pacific. They were never heard from again. Sir John Franklin, the leader of the expedition and captain of the Erebus, is an aging fool. Francis Crozier, his second in command and captain of the Terror, is a competent sailor, but embittered after years of seeing lesser men with better connections given preferment over him. With their two ships quickly trapped in pack ice, their voyage is …
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Set in the American colonies in the 1680s, in the early stages of the slave trade, A Mercy gives voice to a remarkable group of characters: Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch farmer, trader, and lender; his wife, Rebekka, newly arrived from England; their servant woman, the Native American Lina, whose tribe has been wiped out by smallpox; Florens, the slave girl he reluctantly accepts as payment for a bad loan; and the permanently shipwrecked Sorrow, daughter of a sea captain killed in a storm off the coast of the Carolinas. These characters take turns narrating the story, and their voices carry the …
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Helen Graham - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbor Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when the law and society defined a married woman as her husband's property
Dark Angel by V.C. Andrews
Heaven Casteel wanted a life away from the poverty and humiliation she suffered in her small W.V. town. Now living with her rich estranged grandparents she must fight for acceptance in her prestigious boarding school and past the dark secrets that surrounds her new family. Heaven must also fight her feelings for her only friend and confidant the enigmatic Troy Tattertown, who lives in seclusion near the mansion grounds.
Heaven by V.C. Andrews
Heaven is a girl in her early teens raised with her half-siblings - her best friend, Tom, her slutty younger sister, Fanny, and needy youngest siblings Keith and Our Jane, in a one-room shack in Appalachia. Her grandmother reveals to Heaven that she is really the daughter of a runaway from a rich Boston family who died giving birth to her. In her early teens, Heaven falls in love with the local rich boy Logan and dreams of a better future and self-sufficient life, but things start to go wrong - Pa stops providing and leaves the kids to fend …
Sabriel by Garth Nix
After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery, her journey takes her to a world filled with parasitical spirits, Mordicants, and Shadow Hands. Unlike other necromancers, who raise the dead, Abhorsen lays the disturbed dead back to rest. This obliges him–and now Sabriel, who has taken on her father's title and duties–to slip over the border into the icy river of Death, sometimes battling the evil forces that lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to escape into the realm of …
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence—of both hand and heart—that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in …
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
In this cult classic coming-of-age novel, four siblings, Chris (age 14), Cathy (age 12), and twins Carrie and Cory (age 4) spend four years locked in their rich grandparents' attic after their father dies and the family is left penniless. They are attended to by their evil pious grandmother, while their mother, Corrine, tries to get into her rich father's will, while concealing the existence of her children from him.
The Sims: The Movie by EA Games
Let's say they made The Sims into one long pointless movie that never changed or went anywhere. Who would you cast.
Adam Bede by George Eliot
The story's plot follows four characters rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love triangle between beautiful but thoughtless Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged lover, and Dinah, Hetty's cousin, a fervent Methodist lay preacher.
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