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Pip is content with his simple life until a bitter gentlewoman employs him as a sometime companion to herself and her adopted daughter. Pip then aspires to become a gentleman himself, though his dreams are unrealistic until the day he mysteriously comes into a fortune and is sent to London to become refined. The story follows Pip's journey into adulthood and emotional maturity and understanding.
3) Ninth house
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Alex Stern volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Surviving a horrific multiple homicide, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks is unexpectedly offered a full scholarship to Yale, where her mysterious benefactors task her with monitoring the university's secret societies.
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Atlas volume 1
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English
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Chosen to compete for five spots within The Alexandrian Society, the protectors and benefactors of the world’s greatest source of knowledge, six powerful, young magicians must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to win one of the coveted spots.
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2022.
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English
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When Beatrice Gallagher, the well-respected benefactor of a new women's shelter, is murdered, Melanie Travis discovers that Beatrice wasn't the warm and generous philanthropist she appeared to be and must expose her true nature to identify a vengeful killer.
10) Killer choice
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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When his pregnant wife falls dangerously ill, a financially strapped man is approached by a mysterious benefactor who offers him money for treatment in exchange for committing a murder.
11) Better off read
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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When the benefactor who was her one last hope to save her storm-damaged library is found bludgeoned to death, bookmobile-driving librarian Cleo Watkins has no choice but to search for justice.
12) The burning
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Series
Triskellion volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Fourteen-year-old twins Adam and Rachel, pursued by both their former "Hope Project" benefactors and followers of a zombie-like figure, flee London for Paris, Seville, and finally Morocco, where they unearth an ancient secret more startling than the first.
14) Love, Jacaranda
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HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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When a video of her singing goes viral, a foster teen is plucked out of obscurity and given a life of privilege at a private performing arts school, where she hides the truth about her mother's imprisonment and struggles to identify her anonymous benefactor.
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Christmas mysteries (Anne Perry) volume 20
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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As Christmas approaches, a former penniless orphan now studying medicine, Scuff, is forced to conduct surgery alone after his instructor and benefactor, Dr. Crowe, becomes involved with a former patient being forced to marry someone she doesn’t love.
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Love walked in volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Three weeks after an elderly neighbor helps her find the courage to end an unhealthy relationship, Clare unexpectedly inherits a small house from the woman and with the help of loved ones pieces together the story of the house and her courageous benefactor.
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It girl novels (Cecily von Ziegesar) volume 6
Publisher
Poppy
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Beginning with Waverly Academy's annual Halloween ball, Jenny, who is still seeking her mysterious benefactor, watches her own popularity soar as Tinsley's plummets, while Callie finds herself at a Maine "health spa."
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First edition library mystery volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The curator of Lady Georgiana Fowling’s collection of Golden Age of Mystery writers’ first editions, Hayley Burke must protect her late benefactor’s legacy when a strange man arrives, claiming to be her grandson, which leads to murder and scandal.
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Blackstone Audio Inc
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Two people are brought together by a very decent proposal cooked up by a very secretive benefactor in which the strangers go on one year of dates, one date a week, for half a million dollars each if they can stand each other for the whole time.
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Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
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English
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"A children's book inspired by the true story of Jewish orphans who came to Canada to learn farming only to find their way to Carnegie Hall. Thirteen-year-old Jacob's life is hard in 1920s Poland, where he lives in an orphanage for Jewish children. His days are brightened by playing in the mandolin orchestra. When an American benefactor arrives with the promise of a new life at the Canadian Jewish Farm School, Jacob and his friends are thrilled. But...
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