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Leaving a life of privilege to strike out on her own, Lauren Durough breaks with her family's expectations and takes a part-time job with eighty-three-year-old librarian Abigail Boyles. The mysterious employer asks Lauren to transcribe the journal entries of her ancestor Mercy Hayworth, a victim of the Salem witch trials. Immediately, Lauren finds herself drawn to this girl who lived and died four centuries ago. As the fervor increases around the...
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Outlander novels volume 5
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In 1771, Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveler wife, Claire, become caught between loyalty to the Crown and the changing times, as the American Revolution draws inevitably closer.
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IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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950L
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Though much of his early life remains a mystery, Blackbeard most likely began his life as Edward Teach in the sailing port of Bristol, England. He began his career as a hired British sailor during Queen Anne's War. He eventually settled in the Bahamas under Captain Benjamin Hornigold who taught the young sailor to go "a-pirating." Soon enough, Blackbeard was commanding his own fleet and stealing ships around the Caribbean and up and down the Eastern...
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.
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Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 1
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Drew O'Connor, still broken-hearted over the loss of his betrothed three years earlier, wins a bride in a game of chance whom he plans to keep as a servant and caretaker of his young niece, but instead finds himself saddled with a woman who is argumentative, cannot cook, claims to be the daughter of an earl--and is totally captivating.
10) The crucible
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In a small Puritan town where one's life is dedicated to God, several teenage girls are discovered in the woods and are accused of engaging in "The Devil's" work. As time goes by, the village becomes consumed by cries of witchcraft and the victims of this mass hysteria are torn from their homes and families.
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2019
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1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
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"Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it. Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help. Together, they ignite a battle between...
13) The bastard
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This is the story of Philip Kent. The illegitimate son of a British nobleman who was denied his heritage, he embraces the ideals of the fledgling nation of America-and takes up arms against his father's homeland.
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House of Winslow volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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940L
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As a great new nation begins to take shape along the Atlantic seaboard, the Winslow family fortunes are dealt a savage blow in a maritime tragedy. Rachel Winslow alone reignites a spark of hope. As free-thinking and spirited as her celebrated forebears, Rachel must overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to keep the family's dreams alive. Threatened by those she wishes to help, pressured to conform, and confronted by a test of forgiveness beyond...
16) The vaster wilds
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
17) A bound heart
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"Their stations could not have been more different: a Scottish laird and a simple lass. When a tragedy forces both to colonial Virginia as indentured servants, can a love thwarted by tradition come to life in a new land?" --
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An iconoclastic look at America's past: overlooked episodes that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washington's inauguration in 1789, these narratives bring to light little-known but fascinating, myth-busting facts. Read the story of the first real Pilgrims in America, who were wine-making French Huguenots, not dour English Separatists; the coming-of-age story of Queen Isabella,...
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American girls collection. Felicity, 1774 volume 4
American girls collection. Felicity 1774 volume 4
American girl 1774 volume 04
American girl.Felicity volume 04
American girls collection. Felicity 1774 volume 4
American girl 1774 volume 04
American girl.Felicity volume 04
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
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Nine-year-old Felicity Merriman from colonial Williamsburg receives a guitar for her birthday, disobeys her mother by taking it out to show her friend, Elizabeth, and overhears a conversation that could mean danger for the colonists.
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A proud and spirited woman whose life was stolen from her. . .A man of secrets accused of a terrible crime. . .In a place of new beginnings their destinies are joined-in a gloriously romantic new work from the incomparable storyteller.
The fiery and outspoken adopted daughter of one of England's most formidable a women, Shemaine O'Hearn has made powerful enemies. And now her adversaries have found a way to remove the hot-blooded beauty from her life...
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