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"In her new novel, Nancy Horan has recreated a love story that is as unique, passionate, and overwhelmingly powerful as the one between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney depicted so memorably in Loving Frank. Under the Wide and Starry Sky chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and American divorcee Fanny...
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Young Jim Hawkins has no reason to suspect that Billy Bones, the pensioner who has taken up residence in his father's inn, is anything other than an aging former mariner. But when violent altercations with visitors to the inn leave Billy on death's doorstep, Jim discovers that they all are members of the crew of the notorious pirate, Captain Flint, and that Billy has a map that shows the whereabouts of Flint's buried treasure--a map that Jim inadvertently...
3) The adventures of John Carson in several quarters of the world: a novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband--but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world, after writing such classics as Treasure Island,...
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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c2012
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The inheritance: "From Louisa May Alcott comes this passionate story of forbidden love and dangerous rivalry in 19th century New England. Beautiful orphan Edith Adelon lives as a paid companion to the wealthy Hamilton family's daughter, Amy. When Edith falls in love with an eligible bachelor -- visiting to court a Hamilton cousin -- she struggles to make sense of her position within the household"--Container.
Love among the ruins: "Past lovers Arthur...
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Remixed classics volume 1
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Xiang and Anh--ages sixteen and seventeen--hunt the South China Sea for the lost treasure of the fabled pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao.
1826. The legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Xiang has grown up with stories about the Dragon Fleet and its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Dragon Queen. Desperate to set sail and explore, Xiang mainly wishes to find her father, a crew member of the Dragon Fleet. Her only...
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