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"With the postmark of Emma's last letter guiding him, William makes a bold journey across the Atlantic to begin his search for Emma in the United States. Even if he finds her, though, the life ahead of them will not be an easy one. The broken engagement of the Viscount's daughter has set the Viscount--and all of London society--against the Joneses, and it will take time to rebuild those business and social relationships. Even more difficult will be convincing society that Emma is worthy to join their ranks despite her humble origins. With dogged persistance, patience, and a little help from Mrs. M?lders, Emma and William aim to carve out a place in this world where their love can thrive at last!--Dust jacket.

A manga adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.

When a penniless governess falls in love with the brooding master of Thornfield, she is unaware of the tragic events that will follow.

London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure--their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with Pete and his gang of Lost Boys living in a city hidden underground.

Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.

After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.

An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England.

A nineteenth-century story in which a governess believes her two charges, ten-year-old Miles and eight-year-old Flora, are being haunted by the ghosts of former servants.

Join Alastair Bruce, historical advisor to Downton Abbey, as he reveals the secrets of how the aristocratic set dined and dressed, how they married and made money, how they interacted with the servants, and above all why they behaved as they did in 1900s Britain.

Thirteen-year-old Christa's plans for her favorite holiday are derailed when her parents announce their divorce and Christa spends Christmas in Europe with her mom, but even though her dad remains in Chicago, he sends Christa on a scavenger hunt made up of dares that send her all over Florence, Paris, and London.