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Kidnapped

After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

The musician's daughter

In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.

Kidnapped

After he is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, a sixteen-year-old orphan escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.

The silent stranger

a Kaya mystery
The arrival of an injured stranger from another tribe, traveling alone and apparently unable to speak, arouses suspicion in Kaya's Nez Perce village.

Where the world ends

In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them.
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Lighter than air

Sophie Blanchard, the first woman pilot
2019
A biography of Sophie Blanchard, the first female pilot in history, who flew a hot air balloon in 18th century France.
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The time museum

Delia and her time-traveling squad join the Epoch Squad led by President Richard Nixon for their next mission. Together they travel to 1778 Versailles to help save a treaty between the US and France. But they run into trouble and get caught in an alternate time reality, and they are forced to rely on their other selves to return to their own timeline lest they become trapped in a time warp.
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A tale of two cities

Charles Dickens's 1859 historical novel set in Paris and London in the years prior to the French Revolution, in which French nobleman Charles Darnay renounces his position in order to save the life of a servant.
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Casta painting

images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico
Text and over two hundred illustrations look at casta painting, focusing on images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico.
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A tale of two cities

Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel set in Paris and London during the French Revolution, in which a French nobleman, Charles Darnay, renounces his position and leaves his country, then returns during the Terror to save the life of a servant, putting himself in grave danger.
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