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Girl waits with gun

Constance Kopp is unlike all women of her time, being totally uninterested in marriage or domestics. When her family's buggy is run down by a powerful and ruthless businessman, the dispute over damages turns into a deadly feud. The local sheriff enlists Constance's help, and she proves herself adept at outthinking and disarming criminals.

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

2013
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.

The three Musketeers

2011
A graphic novel adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale about a young Frenchman, D'Artagnan, who travels to Paris in order to join the King's elite fighting force and comes under the influence of three of the Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

Jepp, who defied the stars

2013
"Jepp, a teenage dwarf living in 16th century Europe, leaves home to seek his destiny"--Provided by publisher.

Will in scarlet

2014
In the late 1100s, thirteen-year-old Will, the future Lord of Shackley, is exiled to Sherwood Forest, where he meets Robin Hood and the Merry Men and bands with them to try to retake Shackley Castle.

Always Emily

a novel of intrigue and romance
2015
Young Emily and Charlotte Bront? investigate a possible connection between a series of local burglaries and rumors that a neighbor's death may not have been accidental.

The man in the iron mask

2011
An illustrated adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, in which four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille who is believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

The Count of Monte Cristo

2011
An abridged version of the novel in which Dantes, having escaped from the island where he has been in prison, plots his revenge on the people responsible for his imprisonment.

After a fashion

Harriet Peabody, a shopgirl in a millinery, poses as the fiancee of a wealthy young man named Mr. Oliver Addleshaw after Oliver accidentally causes her to lose her job, and the two discover that despite their differences, they are the perfect match.

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