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  • Shirley

    Charlotte Bronte, Anna Bentinck

    Audio CD (Isis, Sept. 1, 2007)
    Set in Yorkshire during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel articulates the social realities of economic hardship, the Luddite riots, dissatisfaction with the government and an inadequate Church.
  • Soul Music

    Terry Pratchett

    Hardcover (ISIS, Jan. 31, 1998)
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  • Heidi

    Johanna Spyri

    Hardcover (Isis, Dec. 1, 2005)
    Heidi is only five when she is taken to live with her grandfather, known as Uncle Alp, in the Swiss Mountains. Notorious in the village for his gloomy outlook and reclusive nature, Uncle Alp nevertheless comes to love little Heidi, and she him. Just as Heidi begins to grow fond of her new mountain family and friends, she is suddenly taken to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara, an invalid. Although she brings great joy into Clara's life, Heidi pines for her home in the mountains.
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  • Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sanditon

    Jane Austen, Norma West

    Audio CD (Isis, Nov. 1, 2003)
    "Lady Susan," with its wicked, beautiful, intelligent and energetic heroine, is a sparkling melodrama in letters. "The Watsons" is a highly delightful story whose vitality and optimism centers on the material prospects of the Watson sisters in a small provincial town. "Sanditon," her last work, left unfinished at her death, is set in a seaside town.
  • The Maltese Falcon

    Dashiell Hammett, William Dufris

    Audio CD (Isis, April 25, 2001)
    Nicky Wells, television war correspondence of a media superstar. Courageous, beautiful, renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the world's most dangerous trouble spots, her life is shattered when she loses the only man she truly ever loved, dashing English aristocrat Charles Devereaux. Nicky seeks solace in her work and friendship with the photographer Cleeland Donovan, beginning to think she may fall in love again. But she if forced to remember Charles when confronted with evidence that he led a secret double life...
  • Maskerade

    Terry Pratchett

    Hardcover (ISIS, Jan. 31, 1998)
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  • A Place in the Country

    Laura Shaine Cunningham

    (Isis, Jan. 7, 2002)
    For anyone who has ever wanted a country house, this account of a young woman from the Bronx improbably finding her place in the country is a breath of fresh Atlantic air. This is a lovely and lyrical account, filled with charm and wit, and of finding one's true home.
  • Witches Abroad

    Terry Pratchett, Nigel Planer

    Audio CD (Isis, Nov. 1, 2008)
    For the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, traveling to the distant city of Genua, things are never simple. For one thing, they're up against the malignant power of the Godmother herself, who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse.
  • The Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett, Carole Boyd

    2003 (Isis, Jan. 1, 2003)
    Cross and lonely, Mary explores the gardens of Misselthwaite Manor, where she is led by a robin to discover the door to the lost "Secret Garden." Inside, she thinks all is dead, but with Dickon, she begins to work in the garden, nursing it back to health. And when she comes across her cousin Colin, a tyrannical invalid since infancy, she believes that he too can be helped by the garden.
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  • The Light Fantastic

    Terry Pratchett, Nigel Planer

    Audio CD (Isis, Nov. 1, 2008)
    As Great A'Tuin, the star turtle who supports the weight of the Discworld, moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible savior. Unfortunately, this happens to be the inept wizard, Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...
  • A Killing Frost

    R D Wingfield, Stephen Thorne

    Audio CD (Isis, June 1, 2008)
    The discovery of two young girls' bodies leaves Detective Inspector Jack Frost in a race to hunt down the killer before he, or she, can strike again. At the same time he faces a crisis at Denton police station which could result in him being sacked.