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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The glass-blowers	Daphne du Maurier	'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape …	OL10421726W
A Tale of Two Cities [adaptation]	Patricia Krapesh	Retells in simple vocabulary the classic tale of the young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.	OL14869595W
A Tale of Two Cities [adaptation]	Charles Dickens	Grade 3 Vocabulary restricted to 3,100 headwords Illustrated in colour Lucie thinks that her father, Dr. Manette, is dead. Then one day a stranger tells her that Dr. Manette is alive - he has be…	OL14869647W
The bad queen	Carolyn Meyer	In eighteenth-century France, Marie-Antoinette rails against the rules of etiquette that govern her life even as she tries to fulfill her greatest obligation, giving birth to the next king, but she f…	OL15580719W
The forbidden rose	Joanna Bourne	A glittering French aristocrat is on the run, disguised as a British governess. England's top spy has a score to settle with her family. But as they're drawn inexorably into the intrigue and madness …	OL16454951W
In the Reign of Terror	G. A. Henty	Harry Sandwith, a Westminster boy, becomes a resident at the chateau of a French marquis, and after various adventures accompanies the family to Paris at the crisis of the Revolution.	OL1794687W
The silent boy	Taylor, Andrew	Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a w…	OL20009821W
Annette Vallon	James Tipton	For fans of Tracy Chevalier and Sarah Dunant comes this vibrant, alluring debut novel of a compelling, independent woman who would inspire one of the world's greatest poets and survive a nation's blo…	OL2028775W
Nethergate	Norah Lofts	Forced to flee Revolutionary France after the brutal guillotining of her beloved father, Isabella de Savigny arrives at Nethergate, the Suffolk house of her cousin, hoping for sympathy and succour. I…	OL24694293W
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel	Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy	It was not, Heaven help us all! a very uncommon occurrence these days: a woman almost unsexed by misery, starvation, and the abnormal excitement engendered by daily spectacles of revenge and of cruel…	OL286350W
Les compagnons de Jehu	Alexandre Dumas	Nous ne savons si le prologue que nous allons mettre sous les yeux du lecteur est bien utile, et cependant nous ne pouvons resister au desir d'en faire, non pas le premier chapitre, mais la preface d…	OL36367W
Kydd	Julian Stockwin	High adventure with a sophisticated story arc. It's fiction but the characters are placed in accurate historical context during the long naval war between Britain and France around the turn of the 19…	OL5726221W
The golden hour	Maiya Williams	Thirteen-year-old Rowan and his eleven-year-old sister Nina, still bereft by the death of their mother the year before, experience an unusual adventure through time when they come to stay with their …	OL5824297W
The triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel	Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy	<p>At one of Robespierre’s “Fraternal Suppers,” a young man denounces Robespierre but is saved by an asthmatic vagabond. The young man flees to the home of his friend Theresia Cabarrus, who is engage…	OL8125158W
Pimpernel and Rosemary	Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy	<p>Rosemary, the former love of Peter Blakeney, is about to be married to one of Peter’s friends. A famous journalist, she is asked to come to Transylvania and report on the Romanian occupation follo…	OL8445006W