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Pride & prejudice

An adaptation of the Jane Austen novel in which a spirited young woman in early nineteenth-century England must cope with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

Jane Eyre

The harshly treated orphan girl, Jane Eyre, becomes a governess in an mysterious Yorkshire mansion and falls in love with the master of the house.

Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets

About to enter his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to return. Harry ignores his warning and returns to Hogwarts, where strange things begin to happen, as people are becoming petrified, Harry hears a voice which seems to be coming from within the walls, and Harry's newly-discovered and unsettling ability to communicate with snakes turns even his friends against him.

Great expectations

An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England.

Great expectations

The orphan Pip's terrifying encounter with an escaped convict and his mysterious summons to the house of the wealthy Miss Havisham form the prelude to his "great expectations." How Pip comes into a fortune, what he does with it, and what he discovers through his secret benefactor are the ingredients of his struggle for moral redemption.

Windrush child

the tale of a Caribbean child who faced a new horizon
With one last hug, Windrush chid waves goodbye to his Caribbean home and sets sail across the ocean to Britain. In this powerful picture book, full of hope and promise, celebrated poet John Agard and illustrator Sophie Bass movingly evoke the journey made by children and their families as part of the Windrush Generation.

Harry Styles

chart-topping musician and style icon
"Harry Styles is more than an English singer and songwriter. Follow his career from performing with One Direction to becoming a solo artist. Then discover his acting career and how he became a fashion icon"--.

Harry Styles

pop star with an X factor
Read about how British singer, songwriter, and actor Harry styles and how he rose to fame.

Lord of the nutcracker men

An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.

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