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2) Quicksilver
Author
Series
Baroque cycle (Neal Stephenson) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.
It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe — London street urchin turned
...Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Claire Randall returns to the Scottish Highlands twenty years after her first visit during which she was transported through the standing stones of Craigh na Dun into the 1700s, to try and discover when happened to the people she knew and loved in the earlier century and to tell her daughter the truth about her father.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"1792, France Rumors of revolution in Paris swirl in Marseille, a bustling port city in southern France. Gilles Etienne, a clerk at the local soap factory, thrives on the news. Committed to the cause of equality, liberty, and brotherhood, he and his friends plan to march to Paris to dethrone the monarchy. His plans are halted when he meets Marie-Caroline Daubin, the beautiful daughter of the owner of the factory. A bourgeoise and royalist, Marie-Caroline...
6) Shanna
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Kathleen E. Woodiwiss comes one of her most iconic and beloved romances of all time.... A pact is sealed in secret behind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison. In return for one night of unparalleled pleasure, a dashing condemned criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress, thereby rescuing her from an impending and abhorred arranged union. But in the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a solemn promise...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Maile falls in love with Englishman John Harbottle, the navigator for Captain James Cook when they arrive in the Sandwich Islands. The two cultures clash after the death of Captain Cook in 1779, and Maile is forced to make an impossible decision: save John or save her people.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
""The Rights of Man." What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights--not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was passed, while in France the nation tumbled toward revolution. In the Caribbean preachers brought word of equality, while in the South Pacific sailors mutinied. New knowledge...
9) Steel
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Jill, a competitive high school fencer, goes with her family on vacation to the Bahamas, she's magically transported to an early-eighteenth-century pirate ship in the middle of the ocean.
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