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"Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning...
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[2011]
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English
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Taking a lighthouse keeper job in North Carolina to escape painful memories of the husband and son she lost, lexicographer Abigail Harker is embraced by colorful locals in the course of a summer marked by a sunken ship, a possible romance, and a series of suspicious fires.
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