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1) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
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English
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Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
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Dante Club volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will...
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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“A terrific historical mystery in the fine old Arthur Conan Doyle style . . . Who knew that a mystery formed around the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be so good? . . . There are cliffhanger endings and fortuitous escapes. . . . There are even a couple of very sweet romances.”—The Globe and Mail
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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As the 19th century draws to an end, two bookaneers are caught up in a colonial war on Samoa as they compete to steal Robert Louis Stevenson's last manuscript and make a fortune before a new international treaty ends the bookaneers' trade forever.
5) Ginnifer
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A man convicted of murdering his wife finds an unlikely champion in this short story by the bestselling author of The Dante Club.
Our narrator is a man convicted of first-degree murder with only one person on his side: Ginnifer. After seeing him on TV and becoming obsessed with the case, Ginnifer devotes herself to overturning his sentence. Eventually, Ginnifer's friendship turns into something more — but the closer they become,...
Our narrator is a man convicted of first-degree murder with only one person on his side: Ginnifer. After seeing him on TV and becoming obsessed with the case, Ginnifer devotes herself to overturning his sentence. Eventually, Ginnifer's friendship turns into something more — but the closer they become,...
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author Matthew Pearl is hailed by Angels & Demons novelist Dan Brown as "the new shining star of literary fiction." In this intricately crafted thriller, most people in 1849 Baltimore believe Edgar Allan Poe drank himself to death. But attorney Quentin Clark is determined to restore Poe's reputation, and he knows Poe's fictional detective, Auguste Dupin, was based on a real man. Putting everything on the line, Clark travels...
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Whitbread Award and both the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, Philippa Pearce's books are classics. In this charming tale, young Bet befriends a talking mole while reading aloud in a field. Bet learns that, despite the Little Gentleman's amazing powers, his deepest wish is to be "wholly mole." Only Bet can help him-but the cost may prove too great.
8) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped a nation
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1776, a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party takes thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone captive, hoping that she will be a valuable pawn in the battle to drive the colonists out of the Kentucky territory for good.
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Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2015
Language
English
Description
Near the end of the nineteenth century, two bookaneers--literary pirates seeking authors' manuscripts to steal--are caught up in a colonial war on Samoa as they compete for Robert Louis Stevenson's last manuscript and make a fortune before a new international treaty ends the bookaneers' trade.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Edited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl
Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” and “The Purloined Letter”
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to...
Includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” and “The Purloined Letter”
Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to...