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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Therese Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
186) Raleigh's page
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In the late 16th century, fifteen year old Andrew leaves school in England and must prove himself as a page to Sir Walter Raleigh before embarking for Virginia, where he helps to establish relations with the Indians.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1726, twelve-year-old Rachel and her friend Sally discover a pirates' hiding place on a deserted island near Charles Town, South Carolina, and they suspect it may be connected to the woman who will soon become Rachel's stepmother.
191) Ramage's challenge
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume no. 15
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2006, 2000
Language
English
Description
The triumphant final volume of Gulland's beloved trilogy based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte...Josephine and Napoleon have been married four tumultuous years. Napoleon is Josephine's great love and she his. Their passionate union is troubled from within as Josephine is unable to produce an heir...
194) Kipling's choice
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years later.
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