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Becky Bloomwood, a television financial expert in Britain and an out-of-control shopaholic, finds a whole new world of stores open to her when she moves to New York with her boyfriend, but her inability to check her spending puts her job and relationship at risk.

Presents the script of 1975 drama about Elesin, the chief horseman of the king of a Nigerian village who loses the respect of the villagers when he fails to take steps to follow his dead ruler into the afterlife.

John Tradescant the Younger, gardener to King Charles I, finds his loyalties questioned as England descends into civil war and his family is put in danger because of John's ties to the King.

Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.

Lucy Honeychurch is at war with the snobbery of her class and her desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable.

Identifies and explains the similarities and differences between the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, describing their process of colonization, colonial societies, distinctive styles of imperial government, and independence movements against them.

Young Jack Absolute loses his chances for a place at Cambridge and a promising career in eighteenth-century London, and sets out for adventure in the New World where his life lessons must be learned on the battlefield.