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1. Code name Verity

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Author:
Wein, Elizabeth
Series:
Code name Verity volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Cary Regional - Young Adult
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Remote Storage - Young Adult
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Description:
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

2. Longbourn

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Author:
Baker, Jo
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Description:
A reimagining of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants captures the drama of the Bennet household from the sideline viewpoint of Sara, an orphaned housemaid. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household....