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"Romeo and Juliet", one of William Shakespeare's most iconic tragedies, tells the poignant tale of young love and family conflict. Set in Verona, Italy, the story revolves around the passionate romance between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, members of feuding families.
The star-crossed lovers meet at a masquerade ball and quickly fall deeply in love, despite their families' bitter rivalry. Their secret relationship leads to a series of events...
6) Home at last
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Sanctuary Island volume 6
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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English
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Teenager, Jessie Bartlett Nungarrayi, takes us on a journey from Alice Springs to the ancestral homelands of her Pintubi grandmothers where the old ladies propose to teach her about relationships with men, the lore of love, the traditional way. With her teenage skin sister, Lizzie, Jessie travels into the remote area around the dried salt-bed of Lake Mackay, straddling the border between the Northern Territory and Western Australia, where her grandfather...
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Navigating a fake courtship with barrister Bram Townsend to keep her family from forcing her into marriage before she finally receives the inheritance that will allow her to live as she wants, amateur astronomer Lady Wilhelmina Bettesford soon discovers their make-believe passion feels very real indeed.
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Perigee
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English
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"From the author of The Introvert's Way, a friendly and accessible guide to dating and relationships for introverts. Love is tricky for everyone--and different personality types can face their own unique problems. Now the author of The Introvert's Way offers a guide to romance that takes you through the frequently outgoing world of dating, courting, and relationships, helping you navigate issues that are particular to introverts, from making conversation...
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Viking, an imprint ot Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In the early 1800s, in a remote corner of England with almost no eligible young men, the eight students at the Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to become a good wife.
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Doubleday
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English
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What can explain the incredible diversity of beauty in nature? Richard O. Prum, an award-winning ornithologist, discusses Charles Darwin's second and long-neglected theory--aesthetic mate choice--and what it means for our understanding of evolution. In addition, Prum connects those same evolutionary dynamics to the origins and diversity of human sexuality, offering riveting new thinking about the evolution of human beauty and the role of mate choice,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Princess Leonie Kolburg, aged nineteen and heir to a faded European spaceship, enters the engagement season hoping only to save her family from financial ruin, but is soon falling for her first, rejected love.
20) Dragon kiss
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Tales of the Frog Princess volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Audun, a dragon from the Icy North, encounters obstacles as he pursues the love of his life--a human girl who can transform into a dragon using magic.
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