historical fiction

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The education of Bet

Denied an education because of both her gender and background, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth cuts her hair and alters suits belonging to Will, her wealthy patron's grandnephew, to take his place at school while Will pursues a military career in nineteenth-century England.
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Shackleton's stowaway

A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of his toes to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.
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Runaway

the story of a slave
Tells the story of a runaway slave.
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Over the top

the story of a soldier
Tells the story of Jack, a World War I soldier from England.
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The penalty

Paul Faustino, known as the best soccer journalist in the business, reluctantly investigates the disappearance of eighteen-year-old Ricardo, a soccer prodigy known as "El Brujito, " while in alternate chapters a slave in old San Juan becomes a powerful voodoo priest.
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Angel on the square

In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in a household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years of world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
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The falconer's knot

Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.
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Three kingdoms

Many people approach Bei Liu and ask him to end Prime Minister Cao Cao's reign over everyone, including the emperor.
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Three kingdoms

The fight for control of the empire has heated up and former allies now fight each other.
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Three kingdoms

Zhuo Dong is gone and Emperor Xian is in exile, but with no one in power, three will jockey for the position to rule the nation.
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