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EnduranceProvides an account of the voyage undertaken by polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew aboard the "Endurance" in 1914-15, telling how the men survived after their ship became locked inside an i |
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The ForeshadowingHaving always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen |
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Sir Isaac NewtonThis book looks at some of Newton's most important ideas and describes how his three laws of motion are used to solve problems. |
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The Book of MordredUnder King Arthur's reign, Kiera--daughter of Lady Alayna--is abducted by knights who leave their barn burning and their only servant dead, and Alayna travels to Camelot to entreat Mordred to help res |
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A Great and Terrible BeautyAfter the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and a |
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Patience, Princess CatherineIn 1501 fifteen-year-old Catherine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when Arthur |
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Mary, Bloody MaryMary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid-sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII. |
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Private PeacefulWhen Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his chi |
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No Shame, No FearIn England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all o |
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Private PeacefulWhen Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his chi |
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