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18th century

Copper Sun

Sharon M. Draper

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to

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A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens classic novel "A Tale of Two Cities" set during the political turmoil of the French Revolution.

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Great Lives From History

Touches on a variety of areas of achievement as well as geographical scope, with a worldwide focus that includes extensive coverage of non-Europeans and women.

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Great Lives From History

Touches on a variety of areas of achievement as well as geographical scope, with a worldwide focus that includes extensive coverage of non-Europeans and women.

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Arts & Humanities Through the Eras

Through the presentation of nine different arts and humanities topics, such as architecture and design, literature, religion, and visual arts, this volume describes the two cultural movements of the A

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Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution

Karen Zeinert

Examines the important contributions of various women, Patroit and Loyalist, to the American Revolution, on the battlefield, in the press, in the political arena, and in other areas and shows how they

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Miriam Brody

Describes the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, the first great English feminist, founder of a school in London, and author of the first great argument for the education of women.

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Common Sense

Thomas Paine

The book which helped spark the movement that established the independence of the United States.

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Pirates!

Celia Rees

At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, set sail from Jamaica on a pirate vessel, hoping to escape from an arranged marriage and slavery.

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An American Plague

Jim Murphy

Provides an account of the yellow fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793, discussing the chaos that erupted when people began evacuating in droves, leaving the city without government,

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