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Wintering

a novel of Sylvia Plath
2003
Presents a novelized account of the last months of poet Sylvia Plath's life after she left her marriage and tried to make a new home for her two young children while completing a collection of poems and struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium.

The king's way

recollections of Fran?oise d'Aubign?, Marquise de Maintenon, wife to the King of France : a novel
1984

Roberto & me

2012
Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.

Honus & me

1998
Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.

A coalition of lions

2004
After the death of Artos, High King of Britain, and his sons, his daughter Princess Goewin journeys to Aksum to meet Constantine, her intended husband, but finds the country in political turmoil.

To the edge of the world

2004
In 1519, after the death of his parents, fourteen-year-old Mateo Mac?as becomes cabin boy to Ferdinand Magellan on a dangerous journey in search of a route to the fabled Spice Islands.

Taste of salt

a story of modern Haiti
1994
In the hospital after being beaten by Macoutes, 17-year-old Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to a young woman who, like him, has been working with the social reformer Father Aristide to fight the repression in Haiti.

Taking liberty

the story of Oney Judge, George Washington's runaway slave
2004
Oney Judge, having been a loyal servant to Martha Washington for twenty years, comes to the realization that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom.

Or give me death

a novel of Patrick Henry's family
2004
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.

Tituba of Salem Village

1991
Tells how Tituba, a slave, was sold in Barbados to a preacher bound for Boston and became one of three women convicted at the beginning of the Salem witch trials.

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