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Prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces the young James when he is just starting boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure.

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

The story about the clash between Eastern and Western cultures during British rule in India.

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.