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The Scarlet Letter is a romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus.Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
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2) Don Quixote
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Miguel de Cervantes began to write this literary classic after serving in the Spanish militia, surviving a gunshot wound, being captured by Barbary pirates, forced into slavery, and being ransomed by his parents. He knows intimately the joys and tragedies of life, love, and loss, and his literary masterpiece is considered one of the most influential works of literature.
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In Edmond Rostand's beloved 1897 stage play "Cyrano De Bergerac", the titular soldier-poet is hopelessly in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in all of Paris. Believing he has no chance with her because of his extremely large nose, he agrees to write love letters on behalf of the slow-witted Christian, who also pines for Roxane. Rostand's work is a fictionalization of the real life novelist Cyrano De Bergerac, who in addition to being a novelist...
5) Hester
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2022.
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"Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband Edward. ... But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic--leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted...
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To return home to his beloved Scotland, Colin MacGregor must complete one last mission and, while infiltrating a traitor's home to expose a treasonous plot against the king, comes to the rescue of Lady Gillian Dearly and her young son who are being held captive by a madman.
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"Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford. With the rest of the court she went into self-imposed exile in France. Her family's wealth and lands were forfeited by Parliament. It was in France that she met her partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a marriage that made her the Duchess...
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When Mairi MacGregor, who is part of a secret alliance, arrives in London in search of information, she comes face to face with Connor Grant, a warrior from the Highlands who left her behind to serve in the King's army, and even though she still longs for him, she cannot forgive his betrayal.
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John Wesley Hawkins was condemned to hang for treason and heresy, but the Lord Protector steps in and offers him mercy--if Wesley agrees to travel to Ireland on a dangerous mission into the heart of the Irish resistance. He'll have to seduce secrets from a headstrong Irishwoman, but that shouldn't be a problem for a man of Wesley's reputation. Caitlin MacBride makes no secret of her loyalty to her countrymen. But when Wesley walks out of the mist...
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University Press of Colorado
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[2021]
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325 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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"Offers an in-depth examination of sociopolitical conflict in seventeenth-century New Mexico, detailing the effects of Spanish colonial policies on settlers', missionaries', and Indigenous peoples' struggle for economic and cultural control of the region. Explores the rich archival documentation that provides cultural, linguistic, and legal views of the period's values"--
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Scribner
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[2023]
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327 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into...
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Scribner
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2023.
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xvii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
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"Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company's outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants--boys like himself, men from Africa, a mad woman from London--must work the tobacco plantations....
14) The orenda
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History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years is truly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and ultimately all too human in its tragic grandeur. Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his...
15) Tulip fever
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The Weinstein Company
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
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Melville House Press
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[2021]
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400 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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When they are asked to investigate the discovery of a young boy drained of his blood, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and his assistant walk into a political hornet's nest as they try to find the truth.
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It's 1666 and the Great Fire has just decimated an already plague-ridden London. Lady's maid Lucy Campion, along with pretty much everyone else left standing, is doing her part to help the city clean up and recover. But their efforts come to a standstill when a couple of local boys stumble across a dead body that should have been burned up in the fire but miraculously remained intact--the body of a man who died not from the plague or the fire, but...
18) Redemption
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Sun God's heir trilogy volume 3
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PISCATAQUA Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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372 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Death is not life's final stop. There are worse ends. Two brothers, once disciples of the Pharoah Akhenaten, reincarnate in seventeenth century France. From Spain to Morocco to Egypt, one is determined to rule, the other to protect. Horemheb, driven to destroy his brother and end their ancient rivalry, invites an African shaman to assist in recovering ancient artifacts of power that will ensure his dominance. Twice before, these artifacts have raised...
19) Rebirth
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Sun God's heir trilogy volume 2
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PISCATAQUA Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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348 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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"The Count of Monte Cristo" meets ancient Egypt in this riveting sequel to "The Sun God's Heir: Return." Set during the wave tossed years of white slavery and Barbary pirates, this is the epic story of René Gilbert, a journey that defies time as he must draw on a larger awareness earned in previous lifetimes. The plague's dark fingers curl around Bordeaux. René must return home to save those he loves. But first he has to escape a Moroccan sultan's...
20) Return
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Sun God's heir trilogy volume 1
Publisher
PISCATAQUA Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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342 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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For three thousand years a hatred burns. In seventeenth century France two souls incarnate, one born the child of a prosperous merchant, the other, determined to continue a brutal incarnation begun long ago. In ancient Egypt, there were two brothers, disciples of the pharaoh, Akhenaten. When the pharaoh died, the physician took the knowledge given and went to Greece to begin the mystery school. The general made a deal with the priests and became pharaoh....
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