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Ship of fire
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Michael Cadnum |
In 1587, sailing to Spain on board Sir Francis Drake's ship "Elizabeth Bonaventure," seventeen-year-old surgeon's apprentice Thomas Spyre finds that, with the sudden death of his master, he must take… |
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Gentle touch
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Angela Elwell Hunt |
An affecting classic romance from Christy Award-winning author Angela HuntHer mother's tragic death led Jacquelyn Wilkes to her career as a nurse, in hopes of saving others from similar sorrow. But h… |
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North River
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Pete Hamill |
It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression. With enormous compassion, Dr. James Delaney tends to his hurt, sick, and poor neighbors, who include gangsters, day laborers,… |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
Stevenson’s famous gothic novella, first published in 1886, and filmed countless times is better known simply as Jekyll and Hyde. The first novel to toy with the idea of a split personality, it featu… |
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The green years
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A. J. Cronin |
This is a precursor of Shannon's Way , detailing the struggles of the orphaned Robert Shannon to obtain education with the ultimate aim of becoming a medical researcher. A little long for a rather… |
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Voyage of midnight
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Michele Torrey |
In the early nineteenth century, when his sea-captain uncle invites him to assist the ship's surgeon on his next voyage, orphaned, fourteen-and-a-half-year-old Phillip, eager to be with family, accep… |
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The CIDER HOUSE RULES
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John Irving |
Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorit… |
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