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On Blackwell's Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving. With her late parents' fortune under her uncle's care until her twenty-fifth birthday in the year 1887, Edyth Foster does not feel pressured to marry or to bow to society's demands. She freely indulges in eccentric hobbies like fencing and riding her velocipede in her cycling costume about the city for all to see. Finding a loophole in the will, though, her...
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Once upon a Dickens Christmas volume 2
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London, 1853. Innkeeper's daughter Mina Scott will do anything to escape the drudgery of her life, for there's nothing more mundane than serving customers day after day. Every minute she can, she reads lovely stories and dreams of someday becoming a real lady and catching the eye of William Barlow, a frequent guest at the inn. William is a gentleman's son, a charming-but-penniless rogue. However, his bachelor uncle will soon name an heir, either William...
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