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The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day

by Scott O'Dell

Published 1 January 1975
Young Adult

Amid political turmoil and threats of plague, young Tom Barton accepts the risks of helping William Tyndale publish and smuggle into England the Bible he has translated into English.


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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Kennebec Large Print Perennial Favorites Collection) (Narrativa74, #11)

by Mark Twain

Published 1 January 1889
Children

This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era’s faith in scientific and social progress. A central document in American intellectual history, A Connecticut Ya...


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Hamlet - The First Quarto (Sos) (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) (Bedford Series in History & Culture )

by William Shakespeare, Graham Holderness, and Bryan Loughrey

Published December 1923

The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission of the playwright or his company. Nonetheless, it was the first version of the play to be published...


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Murder, Magic, and What We Wore

by Kelly Jones

Published 19 September 2017
Young Adult

Fans of Patrice Kindl’s Keeping the Castle or Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer’s Sorcery and Cecelia will adore this funny Regency-era mystery about a determined young woman with a magical trick up her sleeve . . .   The year is 1818, the city is London, and 16-year-old Annis Whitworth has just learned that her father is dead and all his money is missing. And so, of course, she decides to become a spy.   Annis always suspected that her father was himself a spy, and following in his f...


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Perilous Journey of the Much-Too-Spontaneous Girl (Perilous Journey)

by Leigh Statham

Published 20 September 2016
Young Adult


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Belle's Song

by K.M. Grant

Published 3 February 2011
Young Adult

In 1387, fifteen-year-old Belle joins Geoffrey Chaucer, his scribe Luke, squire Walter, and others on a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury to atone and pray for a cure for her father's crippling injury, but political intrigue threatens them all.


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The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army (Primary Sources, Historical Collections)

by Margaret Vandercook

Published 1 January 2008
Adult


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All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages

by Saundra Mitchell

Published 27 February 2018
Young Adult

Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens. From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to two girls falling in love while mourning the death of Kurt Cobain, forbidden love in a sixteenth-century Spanish convent or an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the 1970s roller-disco scene, All Out tel...


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Tin Princess (Sally Lockhart, #4)

by Philip Pullman

Published 1 January 1994
Young Adult

Sally Lockhart's friend and partner-in-adventure Jim Taylor has just solved a mystery. For years he's been searching for Adelaide, the little girl enslaved by toothless crone Mrs Holland in The Ruby in the Smoke. And now he's found her - just as she's about to become a princess. Crown Princess of Razkavia, to be exact, and a princess in danger. Her future husband is desperate to protect his bride, and employs Jim as their bodyguard - Razkavia's quaint little streets are full of danger.


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The Last Hours Complete Collection (Boxed Set) (The Last Hours, Books 1-3)

by Cassandra Clare

Published 2 May 2023
Young Adult


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Eva Underground

by Dandi Daley Mackall

Published 1 March 2006
Young Adult

The year 1978 has been a pretty good one for Eva Lott.She has a terrific best friend, she's dating the best-looking guy in school, and she just made the varsity swim team.So when her widowed dad says it's time for them to move, she's not exactly thrilled.And when he tells her that he intends to move to Communist Poland to help with a radical underground movement ...Well, it's all downhill from there. Soon Eva has been transplanted from her comfortable Chicago suburb to a land that doesn't even...


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The Dead of Winter

by Chris Priestley

Published 4 October 2010
Children

Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story, one that happened to him. One that would be unbelievable if it weren't true! Michael's parents are dead and he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents' will ...Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. But little can prepare...


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The Count of Monte Cristo (Count of Monte Cristo, #2)

by Alexandre Dumas

Published September 1968
Adult

Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monet Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal.From the Hardcover edition.


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I Must Betray You

by Ruta Sepetys

Published 1 February 2022
Young Adult

#1 New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray. Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Am...


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Bones, The

by Michael Prince

Published 19 September 2014
Young Adult


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A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House, #1)

by Kathleen Baldwin

Published 19 May 2015
Young Adult


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Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan (My Story)

by Sufiya Ahmed

Published 6 August 2020
Young Adult

My Story: Noor Inayat Khan is the thrilling story of British-Indian World War Two heroine, Noor un-Nisa Inayat Khan. It's 1940 and hundreds of families are being forced to flee Nazi-occupied France. Noor refuses to sit back and do nothing while Nazi forces invade her home and terrorise her people, so she signs up to join the war efforts despite her mother's wishes. Soon she is chosen by Winston Churchill to go undercover into France. Noor returns home b...


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Resistance

by Carla Jablonski

Published 27 April 2010
Young Adult

Fighting on a secret front of World War II Paul and Marie's bucolic French country town is almost untouched by the ravages of WWII, but the siblings still live in the shadow of war. Their father is a Prisoner of War, kept hostage by the Germans. When their friend Henri's parents disappear and Henri goes into hiding because of his Jewish ancestry, Paul and Marie realize they must take a stand. But how can they convince the French Resistance that even children can help in their fight against injus...


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Water

by Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson

Published 10 June 2002
Children

What magical beings inhabit earth's waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar's Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson transform the simple element of wa...


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The Diamond Thief (The Diamond Thief, Books 1-2)

by Sharon Gosling

Published 10 April 2014
Young Adult

No one performs on the circus trapeze like 16-year-old Remy Brunel. But Remy also leads another life, prowling through the backstreets of Victorian London as a jewel thief. When she is forced to steal one of the world's most valuable diamonds, she uncovers a world of treachery and fiendish plots.


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Loving Will Shakespeare

by Carolyn Meyer

Published 1 October 2006
Adult


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Fir for Luck

by Barbara Henderson

Published 21 September 2016
Young Adult

Would you be brave enough to fight back?  When 12-year-old Janet’s village is under threat– she decides to take action. It’s a split-second decision that could cost her everything: her home, her family – even her life. Can Janet save her village from being wiped out? Or will her family and friends be forced from their homes to face an uncertain future? Based on real life events, Fir for Luck is a tale of the brutal Highland Clearances, when land owners cared more about sheep than people. ‘S...


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Romeo's Ex

by Lisa Fiedler

Published 19 September 2006
Young Adult


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A Promising Life: Coming of Age with America

by Emily Arnold McCully

Published 25 July 2017
Children


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