📗 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
👤 Oscar Wilde

📊#PreIntermediate

📖 Description:
It is a satirical book about the Victorian era. The author elegantly mocks Victorian sense of duty and the aristocracy as a model of social morality.

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📗 The House
👤 Erica N Robinson

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
A person can quarrel with friends, lose a lucrative job and even a house. He can be forced to live on the street. He starts drinking too much alcohol, stops bathing, shaving and looking after himself. Who would agree to give such a person a second chance? Very few. But Nan - the seller of fruit - is a woman like that.

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📗 Captain Corelli's Mandolin
👤 Louis De Bernieres

📊#Advanced

📖 Description:
The doctor's daughter feels disappointed in her fiance. She starts doubting that he really loves her. Nothing goes unnoticed by the attentive eyes of Captain Corelli. If you are a fan of such books as "Gone with the Wind", "Cold Mountain", then this novel will undoubtedly be to your liking.

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📗 Lorna Doone
👤 R. D. Blackmore

📊#Intermediate

📖 Description:
This is a romantic adventure novel about a love story between farmer John and Lorna. A beautiful girl was kidnapped by robbers in her childhood. This is a story about love, lost parents, children and evil enemies. This is a real fairy tale told in the traditions of a historical novel.

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📗 The Watchers
👤 Jennifer Bassett

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
His name is Taras. He is very, very old. He sits under the Palace of Knossos. His sister Aketa is sitting next to him. She is as old as Taras. They do not need water or food. They never close their eyes. Are they dead or alive? They are watching and waiting. They are watchers. There is a god next to them. Poseidon stands in this temple. They look at his statue.

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📗 Deadheads
👤 Reginald Hill

📊#Advanced

📖 Description:
This is an unusual detective novel. You won't be able to predict the end of it. When the man comes to work for a new company, he has a great career development. It is not because he is a good specialist. The reason is many people die and Patrick takes their positions.

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📗 Strawberry and the Sensations
👤 Peter Viney

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
How do you live when you are a vocalist of a famous rock band? The hall is full, the fans are excited and you see the bright light of the spotlights and hear the rich sound of an electric guitar. But shortly before the concert a policeman arrives. He warns: there will be a psychopathic killer in the hall. What should the band do? Cancel the show? Or risk everything and give the fans what they are waiting for?

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📗 A Scandal in Bohemia
👤 Conan Doyle

📊#PreIntermediate

📖 Description:
While the Dr. Watson got married and engaged in private medical practice, to Sherlock Holmes for help addressed German aristocrat. Count Von Kramm’s problem was that he was going to marry, and the woman with whom he had a love affair before, blackmailed him. She had a photo where they were together with him. The King’s agents have tried to searched photo, but couldn’t find. All hope of Sherlock Holmes, otherwise the wedding will be able to fail.

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📗 The Final Diagnosis
👤 Arthur Hailey

📊#Advanced

📖 Description:
The protagonist is a young surgeon named Kent. The young man is trying to improve the deplorable situation of the hospital. A young nurse falls in love with another employee, but this relationship turns dramatic very quickly. At the same time, a new doctor appears in the hospital. He tries to modernize the work process, but faces the discontent of his superiors. And the hospital keeps living its own way of life.

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📗 The Brisingamen Necklace
👤 Chris Rose

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
Freya was the most beautiful out of all the gods and goddesses in Asgrad. She loved not food or weapon, but adored jewelry: pearls, gold, precious stones, rings and necklaces. Freya loved travelling to Midgard in search of countless new bracelets and necklaces. One day, Loki put on his cloak that made him invisible and followed the goddess to play another joke on her.

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📗 Roads of Destiny
👤 O. Henry

📊#Intermediate

📖 Description:
David is a shepherd from a small village. Once he quarrels with his bride. He decides to leave home and look for happiness in the new lands. The guy is a poet, which greatly affects his personality. He meets an aristocrat, who promised to marry his daughter off to the first comer.

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📗 The Doll (Gallico Paul)
👤 Gallico Paul

📊#PreIntermediate

📖 Description:
There is a doctor in the centre of the novel. It was a usual day, when he saw an incredible doll in the shop not far from his house. It impressed the doctor and he bought this doll for his niece. Later he got a call. One woman asked him to come and examine her ill niece. Her niece turned out to be the creator of these wonderful dolls.

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📗 The White Birds
👤 Jane Rollason

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
One king had nine sons and a daughter. His wife died while giving birth to Eliza - the youngest child. Soon the king fell in love with another woman and married her. The new queen was a wicked and envious woman. She hated the king's children. But he always believed his wife. Love deprived his mind, as it happens to many people. Once the queen decided to get rid of the children.

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📗 A History of Britain
👤 Fiona Beddall

📊#UpperIntermediate

📖 Description:
Britain is a small country, but it has a long history. Two thousand years ago, it was part of the Roman Empire. In the 1930's the British Empire was the biggest empire in world history. Read about the different countries of the United Kingdom - and the great men and women who have shaped the British nation.

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📗 Henry VIII and His Six Wives
👤 Janet Hardy Gould

📊#PreIntermediate

📖 Description:
King Henry VIII was an influential leader of his time. However, today he is mostly remembered for having six wives. He was known as a good king but a terrible husband. All his wives were very unhappy. There are many legends and rumors concerning Henry's life. This book allows the reader to get more insight into what was really happening in the King's palace.

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📗 At the World's End
👤 Irene Trimble

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
This is the final part of the trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean. "Do you agree to go to the end of the world and farther to bring back the handsome Jack and his Pearl?" Captain Jack Sparrow disappeared along with his ship in the jaws of the monster. But it is naive to believe that the brave pirate Jack will disappear forever.

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