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  A Prison of Ink and Ice - A Snow...

  Rebecca F. Kenney

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  What happens when the fated mates doubt their destiny and go through the most brutal kind of marriage counseling thanks to a villain? In this Snow Queen retelling, Lir and Louisa endure a hellish experience on their way to that happy ending. 
   
   
   
  (This is a short novel in the Wicked Darlings series. It is concurrent to the events of book two, A Court of Hearts and Hunger, and it contains spoilers for books one and two in the series.) 
   
   
   
  As the King and Queen of the Seelie Court of Delight, Lir and Louisa travel to the prison of Griem Dorcha to hear the cases of the Unseelie Fae that Drosselmeyer freed from his mansion. But when their journey takes an unexpected turn, they are trapped in an icy stronghold and forced to play a twisted game. As the stakes rise higher, Louisa must confront her deepest doubts about her marriage and her worst fears about life in Faerie—as well as some harsh truths about herself. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  A Short History of the World

  H. G. Wells

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  A Short History of the World by H.G. Wells is an ambitious and accessible work that offers a broad overview of human history. From the early stages of civilization to the rise and fall of empires, Wells condenses millennia of history into a readable and engaging narrative. The book focuses on the most significant events, figures, and developments that have shaped the world we live in today. Wells' concise writing style makes this a perfect introduction for those interested in understanding the major milestones in human history.

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  On Secret Service

  William Nelson Taft

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  Callahan knew that the four principal ports of embarkation for troops—Boston, New York, Norfolk, and Charleston—were shrouded in a mantle of secrecy which it was almost impossible to penetrate. Some months before, when he had been working on the case which grew out of the disappearance of the plans of the battleship Pennsylvania, he had had occasion to make a number of guarded inquiries in naval circles in New York, and he recalled that it had been necessary not only to show his badge, but to submit to the most searching scrutiny before he was allowed to see the men he wished to reach. He therefore felt certain that no outsider could have dug up the specific information in the short space of time at their disposal...FROM THE BOOKS.

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  What Katy Did at School - Katy...

  Susan Coolidge

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  Katy and Clover are sent to a boarding school run on rules that forbid talking to the boys' college across the road, and organise a society for the suppression of unlady-like behaviour that is mostly an excuse for a feast. Susan Coolidge had gone to just such a school in Hanover and wrote it in 1873 from the inside. The invalid of the first book is now the one who mends other people. Forty-nine plates by painters including George Inness and Childe Hassam follow the school year through gardens, rivers, and mountain light, the American landscape that shaped the world Katy and Clover came from.

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  From One Generation to Another -...

  Henry Seton Merriman

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  A young officer in the Mutiny reads in the newspaper that he has been killed, and decides to let the mistake stand — it frees him from a fiancée in England and leaves him clear for a richer bride. Nineteen years later the deed is answered. Merriman wrote spare, unsentimental novels of intrigue at a time when the fashion ran the other way, and refused to have his photograph published. Sixty plates of reading, letter-writing and quiet interiors by painters such as James Tissot and Vilhelm Hammershøi give the novel's world of secrets and mistaken news its visual key.

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  "In Youth I Have Known One"

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  “In Youth I Have Known One”: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.
  
  In youth I have known one with whom the Earth
  In secret communing held—as he with it,
  In daylight, and in beauty, from his birth:
  Whose fervid, flickering torch of life was lit
  From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn forth
  A passionate light such for his spirit was fit
  And yet that spirit knew—not in the hour
  Of its own fervor—what had o’er it power.

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