The Wombles to the Rescue
By: Elisabeth Beresford
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The Wombles have just gratefully returned to their burrow on Wimbledon Common. They had needed to l…
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1. Doctor Dolittle's Return (Doctor Dolittle, #9)
By: Hugh Lofting
3.90
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
, 288 pages, coloured frontispiece, 14 black & white plates, illustrated endpapers read more
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2. The Railway Children
By: E. Nesbit
4.02
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more
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"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children
3. The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant … read more
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- fiction
4. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
5. Magic by the Lake (Tales of Magic, #3)
By: Edward Eager , N.M. Bodecker
4.08
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
If Jane and Mark and Katharine and Martha had stopped to think, they might have ordered magic by th… read more
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6. Mrs. Dalloway
By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard
3.79
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more
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"Life stand still here."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What a lark! What a plunge!"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"To love makes one solitary."-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
7. War Horse (War Horse, #1)
By: Michael Morpurgo
4.15
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
A powerful tale of war, redemption and a hero's journey.In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal wit… read more
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"cause when there's life there's still hope"-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
"I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less."-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
"Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other"-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
"If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer."-Michael Morpurgo, War Horse (War Horse, #1)
8. Mr Norris Changes Trains
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship … read more
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9. How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)
By: Cressida Cowell
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "t… read more
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10. The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.80
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic d… read more
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"It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it."-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
"You've brought out your best butter." [you're laying on the flattery thickly]"-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."-Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
11. Esio Trot
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
3.74
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Mr. Hoppy is in love with Mrs. Silver, but her heart belongs to Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr. Hoppy … read more
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12. The BFG
By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake
4.23
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It… read more
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- fiction
"let your love out"-Roald Dahl, The BFG
"Don't gobblefunk around with words."-Roald Dahl, The BFG
"You is getting nosier than a parker."-Roald Dahl, The BFG
"Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country."-Roald Dahl, The BFG
13. Heidi
By: Johanna Spyri , Beverly Cleary , None
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness t… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
"...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!"-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"we could not pray for anything any more, because we would feel that He always knows of something better."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
"God does not give us what we ask for, even when we pray and pray and pray, if He knows there is something better for us."-Johanna Spyri, Heidi
14. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.90
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more
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"Teach me to speak the language of men."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
15. Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)
By: E. Nesbit
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will … read more
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16. Regency Buck (Alastair, #3)
By: Georgette Heyer
4.15
Format: None pages,
After their father's death, Miss Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine travel to London to meet… read more
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17. Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
By: Malorie Blackman
3.74
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice … read more
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18. Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more
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19. Seven-Day Magic (Tales of Magic, #7)
By: Edward Eager , N.M. Bodecker
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A seven-day book of magic proves to be fractious for five children, who must learn the book's rules… read more
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20. The Bookseller of Inverness
By: S.G. MacLean
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more
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21. A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #23)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi enco… read more
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22. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)
By: Richard Coles
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more
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23. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)
By: Richard Coles
3.90
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more
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24. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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25. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
26. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
By: Ellis Peters
4.17
Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more
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"Love shared is no sin."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
27. Accidental Magic (Myrtlewood Mysteries, #1)
By: Iris Beaglehole
3.90
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to Myrtlewood, a quirky town, steeped in magic, tea and mystery… Life’s a struggle for R… read more
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28. Factory Girls
By: Michelle Gallen
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory… read more
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"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
29. Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies
By: Hayley Nolan
3.76
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
A bold new analysis of one of history’s most misrepresented women. History has lied. Anne Boleyn … read more
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30. The Wombles to the Rescue
By: Elisabeth Beresford
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The Wombles have just gratefully returned to their burrow on Wimbledon Common. They had needed to l… read more
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