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Zorro

Isabel Allende

Presents an adventure novel that describes how Diego de la Vega, the son of a Spanish aristocrat and Shoshone woman, grew to become the elusive Zorro, who returns to California to reclaim the hacienda

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Your Eyes in Stars

M. E. Kerr

In their small New York town, two teenaged girls become friends while helping each other make sense of their families, neighbors, and selves as they approach adulthood in the years preceding World War

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You English Words

John Moore

Yellow Journalism

Daniel Cohen

Provides a look at the history of sensational media reporting while discussing its rise in popularity throughout the years.

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Years of the Sword

R. J. Unstead

A pictorial survey of British history and civilization during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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Wrestlemania

Basil V. DeVito

Provides a behind-the-scenes look at wrestling's stars and affiliated celebrities, its records and most notable matches, and profiles of its championships.

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Worth Dying for

Lewis M. Simons

An account of what took place in the two and a half years from the assassination of Benigno Aquino, to the flight of Marcos and the victory of Corazon Aquino.

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The World Rushed in

J. S. Holliday

Based on the diary of a goldseeker named William Swain and over 500 other diaries and letter collections, this book reveals the life and times of the forty-niners and their families.

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