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The murder of an English governess for the royal harem causes controversy at the palace and the British embassy as the search for the killer consumes the Ottoman Empire.

Villette was Charlotte Bronte's name for Brussels, Belgium. Charlotte, and her sister, Emily, had studied there in 1842, and Charlotte returned in 1843 to teach there for a year. She hoped the experience would help her to set up a school in her home town of Haworth in Yorkshire, England. Eventually she wrote a novel, with fictional characters, about her time in Brussels.

"Set in Yellowstone National Park, teenager Darcy has moved with her family from England to the U.S. She's been sick and has strange dreams/visions. Then she finds an injured bear. The bear and Darcy need each other. But is Darcy well enough to take care of the bear, let alone herself?"--.

Teenager Darcy moves with her family from England to the U.S. near Yellowstone National Park. She's been sick and has strange dreams or visions. Then she finds an injured bear who seems to need her, but Darcy is barely well enough to take care of herself. As the two grow closer, they must confront the law of nature: kill or be killed.

Alvina Houghton is coming of age just as her widowed father's business is failing. Desperate to regain his fortune and secure his daughter's future, Alvina's father buys a theater. But when Alvina finds herself drawn to Ciccio, a traveling performer her father hired, she flees with him to Naples, leaving her safe world behind.

Mr. Granite is assigned a new student teacher but A.J. and his friends become convinced that she is actually a vampire who lives in a cave and plays in a heavy metal band with her zombie boyfriend.

Presents the story of Lucy Snowe, which is loosely based upon Bronte's own personal experiences, and her struggles as a teacher in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette, and includes a chronology of Bronte's life along with explanatory notes.

A biography of computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

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.

"From the bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars, a new historical novel set on the remote island of Saint Helena about the remarkable friendship between a young woman and one of history's most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile. In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the island of Saint Helena. There, in one of the most remote places on earth, he lived out the final six years of his life. On this lonely island with no chance of escape, he found an unexpected ally: a spirited British girl named Betsy Balcombe who lived on the island with her family. While Napoleon waited for his own accommodations to be built, the Balcombe family played host to the infamous exile, a decision that would have devastating consequences for them all. In Napoleon's Last Island, "master of character development and period detail" (Kirkus Reviews) Thomas Keneally recreates Betsy's powerful and complex friendship with the man dubbed The Great Ogre, her enmities and alliances with his remaining courtiers, and her dramatic coming-of-age. Bringing a shadowy period of history to life with a brilliant attention to detail, Keneally tells the untold story of one of Europe's most enigmatic, charismatic, and important figures, and the ordinary British family who dared to forge a connection with him"--.