Country life
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Atonement
Rabbit hill
Miracles on Maple Hill
Miss Hickory
The Little House
A Gathering of Days
The Railway Children
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Wuthering Heights
Anne's House of Dreams
The Wind in the Willows
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Green Gables
Wives and daughters
Lat, the kampung boy
The dry
The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers
Darwin's children
Rose Cottage
Life among the savages
Diary of a provincial lady
Christmas Books (Battle of Life / Chimes / Christmas Carol / Cricket on the Hearth / Haunted Man)
The Secret Staircase (Brambly Hedge)
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Pet Sematary
Aeneis
Rainbow Valley
Principles of Microeconomics (with Xtra!)
Lark Rise to Candleford
The Cat Who Wasn't There
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