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1) Rebecca
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
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"While working as the companion to a rich American woman vacationing on the French Riviera, the narrator becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, Maximilian (Maxim) de Winter, a reasonably young widower. After a fortnight of courtship, she agrees to marry him, and after the marriage accompanies him to his mansion, the beautiful West Country estate Manderley. Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, was profoundly devoted to the first Mrs. de Winter, Rebecca....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Horrified at the thought of caring for talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca, the spinster aunts nevertheless spend seven difficult years raising their niece, rewarding years for all three inhabitants of the little brick house in a small New England town.
3) Rebecca
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that...
4) Rebecca
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A Native Princess Follows Her Heart
Immerse yourself in the "what if" questions related to the Lost Colony of Roanoke when a native princess meets an English widower.
Born the daughter of a Powhatan chieftain and a woman of unknown origins, Matoaka enjoys a carefree life. When strange men from across the eastern waters appear near her home, she regards them at first as a mere curiosity. Soon, though, she finds herself torn between friendship...
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Daughters of Blessing volume 4
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English
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Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. Besides, no man has ever shown enough interest in her to come courting. So Rebecca's friends set out to remedy the situation, concocting social events to attract all the eligible bachelors in Blessing and advising her in the use of feminine wiles. When non of these efforts seem to work, Rebecca tries yet another tack, only...
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Rebecca's life is about to change! In the beginning, the ancient Gods created not just the earth. They also created three other worlds: the Elysian Fields, a paradise where they themselves live; Tartarus, the dark world of demons and Titans, ruled over by the ancient deity Cronus; and finally the Land of the White Sun, where all the heroes and creatures of myth dwell – Centaurs and Minotaurs, Cyclopes and Gorgons, Amazons and flying horses! In this...
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Rebecca's Choice: A compelling, historical Victorian romance
'Can Rebecca find the love and passion she craves within a Victorian world that seems to be conspiring against her?'
It is 1887 and Queen Victoria is on the throne. Businessman and meteorologist Geoffrey de Roussier is passionate about his weather station and railways, yet little of his passion seems to filter through to his shy, naïve young wife, Rebecca.
Following his tragic demise,...
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"It was the eleventh day of the school holidays and Rebecca was bored. Bored. Bored. Bored." But events take a dramatic turn for the better (or worse) when she finds herself transported to a distant planet, whose people are terrorized by jelly-like monsters called Ghosts. Rebecca resolves to sort out their problems. With the help of Grisby, a sore-footed misery-boots, Kovak, an out-of-work spy, and Captain 'K', a rather puny superhero, she sets out...
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Read five sizzling stories from the New York Times bestselling Inside Out series by Lisa Renee Jones. Kept under lock and key, discovered by chance, dangerous new secrets and scintillating adventures lie within Rebecca's private diaries - searing scenes from a passionate journey inside a world where pain is pleasure, pleasure is pain, and where every limit she once had is no more.
The Seduction: Rebecca's daring first encounter with the Master...
The...
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Rebecca is turning six years old and is excited to be having a birthday party with all her family, especially her cousins. But to her dismay, her party may not happen because of the fog that covers everything, making it hard for people to see while driving. Will she get to celebrate and have a party?
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her two stern aunts in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding. Wiggin wrote a sequel, New Chronicles of Rebecca. Eric Wiggin, a great nephew of the author, wrote updated versions of...
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Giddy-up! Read about Rebecca who rides her horse, Snickerdoodles, for 98 miles on the Texas Independence Trail each year. Are you ready to learn how horses talk and communicate through body language? Janet trains guide horses, and John tames the wildest horse by making friends with it. Stories by Mary Ann Hellinghausen, Leslie Wyatt, Shannon Teper, and Deborah Kearney.
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"Sloths spend most of their lives in trees, and until recently scientists didn’t know very much about them. But Dr. Rebecca Cliffe was determined to discover their secrets. To find out more, she fitted sloths with special backpacks containing a device to track their activity. She learned how to climb trees in the Costa Rican jungle so she could take sloth hair samples and test their DNA. And she’s helped create sloth crossings and plant trees...
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Rebecca Connolly series volume 2
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"When a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is found dead on the site of the Battle of Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie led his forces to a rout seared into Scottish memory, Rebecca Connolly takes up the case for the Chronicle. A controversial film about the rebellion and battle is being shot nearby, and it has drawn the ire of the right-wing nationalist movement Spirit of the Gael. Is there some link between the murder--the weapon used...
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Rebecca Connolly series volume 3
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"When banners proclaiming the innocence of James Stewart spring up at the gravesite of his famous namesake...investigative reporter Rebecca Connolly smells a story...The young Stewart has been in prison for ten years for the brutal murder of his lover, lawyer and politician Murdo Maxwell...Rebecca soon discovers that, prior to his murder, Maxwell believed he was being followed...As Rebecca keeps digging, she finds herself in the sights of Inverness...
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A future king claiming the woman he loves.
Prince Alexander, heir to the throne of Valleria, takes his duties very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that he's followed duty over pursuing the woman he's loved for years. However, now it's time for him to marry, and he's tired of waiting. He'll pursue her despite royal objections, and despite her own.
A commoner falling in love with a prince.
Rebecca Campo loves her work as chief of staff to Princess...
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Rebecca Connolly series volume 4
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A gritty page-turner, "fast-paced and straight to the point-like a well-aimed . . . projectile" (Times Scotland)
Set amid the dramatic beauty of the Scottish Highlands and threaded with Highland history and lore, the latest Rebecca Connolly thriller is another stellar crime novel from "a writer to watch" (Publishers Weekly).
Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death. When her body is found in the center of a pentagram on a lonely moor in the...
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Ken Follett
Der Schlüssel zu Rebecca
Thriller
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Sommer 1942: Rommels Armee rückt auf Kairo vor. Die Strategie des Wüstenfuchses scheint unschlagbar. Seine Geheimwaffe: der Meisterspion Wolff in Kairo. Wolffs Auftrag: Die Pläne der Engländer auszukundschaften und sie Rommel verschlüsselt zu übermitteln. Als Schlüssel dient ihm Daphne du Mauriers weltberühmter Roman "Rebecca". Doch die andere Seite ist nicht untätig. Während die...
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He's there to keep her safe from the bad guys, but who will protect her heart from him? Rebecca Watson never cared for all the money she grew up with. Not until she was old enough to claim her trust fund and do with it as she pleased. Now she runs a non-profit community center in the projects of Chicago, hoping to keep teens off the streets. Unfortunately, this doesn't make her popular with a new gang in the area. With all her worries, she doesn't...
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David got help in battle, and you should too. Have you known anyone who fell short of spiritual victory? Or who took the path of least resistance and paid for it? Rebecca Greenwood's new book and 3-CD set, Glory Warfare, offers surprising revelation on how to pray from the place of joy and assurance, God's manifest Presence. Rebecca teaches and gives miraculous testimonies as she shows how victory comes-not through formula or principle-but through...