When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
19th century
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- Auteur:Roberts, CokieSommaire:
Sifting through newspaper articles, government records, and private letters and diaries--many never before published--Cokie Roberts brings war-torn Washington, DC, into focus through the lives of its formidable women.
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Dee Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
- Auteur:Melville, HermanSommaire:
DescriptionBenito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in Putnam's Monthly in 1855.
- Auteur:Fellowes, JulianSommaire:
Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's new legendary ball, one...
- Auteur:Kraay, HendrikSommaire:
Since 1824, Bahians have marked independence with a popular festival that contrasts sharply with the official commemoration of Brazil's independence on 7 September. The Dois de Julho (2 July) festival celebrates the day the...
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- Auteur:Lodge, DavidSommaire:
As he lies dying in 1944 in Lodge's fictional account, H.G. Wells takes the opportunity to reflect on his many sexual conquests, but finds himself focusing on his memories of a handful of wives and mistresses. Recollecting his time with...
- Auteur:Ibsen, HenrikSommaire:
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