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A new, beautifully laid-out edition of Daniel Defoe's 1722 classic. This novel is an account of one man's eyewitness experiences in the city of London in the year 1665, as the city is overrun with the Bubonic Plague. A Journal of the Plague Year takes us down to street level, gripping with the reality of disease and death during one of the darkest periods known to man. As the modern world struggles to come to terms with similar threats, Defoe's work...
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"Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands at the brink of World War II" --Jacket.
10) Lion's bride
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Thea, the last survivor of a brutal attack on her desert caravan, is rescued by the infamous Lord Ware, who takes her to his secret stronghold at Dundragon, where she finds herself falling in love with her captor and becoming the greatest weapon of his enemy.
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Knight Templar Will Campbell, has sworn to uphold the peaceful aims of the Anima Temple, but he faces a grave choice after the Temple forges an alliance with their enemy, King Edward of England and now must decide whether to keep his loyalties or break from the brotherhood and fight alongside his countrymen in Scotland.
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Father Damien Modeste has served the Ojibwe on the remote reservation of Little No Horse for more than half a century, and as he nears the end of his life, he begins to fear that if the tribe discovers he is really a woman who has lived a man's life, all of his hard work will be undone.
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"During the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius, one boy struggles to escape. Can he survive the most devastating disaster of ancient times? In this thrilling addition to the bestselling I SURVIVED series, readers are taken back to antiquity with a young boy trying to escape as the giant Mount Vesuvius erupts. Does he have what it takes to survive the epic destruction of Pompeii?" -- summary from amazon.com.
20) Life mask
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A historical novel set in high society London at the time of the French Revolution, which fictionalizes the triangle formed by the unattractive Earl of Derby, his ambivalent beloved, actress Eliza Farren, and widowed sculptor Anne Damer, whose friendship with Eliza sparks rumors of lesbianism.
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