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  Across the Crying Sands

  Jane Kirkpatrick

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  A Tale of Uncharted Adventure and Discovery Inspired by a True Story 
    
  In 1888 Mary Edwards Gerritse is a witty and confident young woman who spends as much time as possible outdoors on the rugged Oregon coast where she and her husband, John, have settled. The two are a formidable pair who are working hard to prove their homesteading claim and build a family. But as Mary faces struggles of young motherhood and questions about her family of origin, she realizes that life is far from the adventure she imagined it would be. 
    
  After losing the baby she's carrying, grief threatens Mary, but she finds an unconventional way to bring joy back into her life—by taking over a treacherous postal route. As Mary becomes the first female mail carrier to traverse the cliff-hugging mountain trails and remote Crying Sands Beach, with its changing tides and sudden squalls, she recaptures the spark she lost and discovers that a life without risk is no life at all. 
    
  "Jane Kirkpatrick's writing evokes a powerful sense of the challenges and strengths of women who settled the West."—SANDRA DALLAS, New York Times bestselling author

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  The Great South Sea

  Andrew Wareham

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  Bloody Nick Turnhouse has returned from Mauritius to Bombay, where he is welcomed with orders received from London by the overland route. He is to frighten the Spanish by showing himself in a powerful ship of war off Manila and then along the Pacific coast of South America, lands which have not seen an enemy in a generation. 
   
   
   
  Unfortunately, the expected ration carrier has failed to arrive and is presumed lost and there are no barrels of beef and bags of biscuit to fill his depleted hold. 
   
   
   
  Nick sets off on a year-long voyage with less than six months of stores to hand. He has to scavenge food that his conservative crew will eat, from lands that do not grow wheat and where the beef cow is a rarity. The best hope, he suspects, must be to capture Spanish ships and garrisons and rob them of their rations. 
   
   
   
  He makes sure that the spirits room is stacked high with rum.

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  The Prince and the Archer - Lord...

  Griff Hosker

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  ‘In loyalty, there lies betrayal.’ 
  William Wallace is dead and Sir Gerald Warbow should be able to rest on his well- 
  won laurels, but his oath to King Edward the 1st stands firm. As new enemies of the Crown 
  emerge from the shadows, Warbow must once again guide his men to protect the realm. Sir 
  Gerald, as always, strives to obey orders but when a new monarch takes the throne, will his 
  past loyalties prove treasonous? Or will the ageing archer be able to outwit those who seek 
  his downfall?

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  The Scarlet Letter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts, The Scarlet Letter tells the haunting story of Hester Prynne, a woman condemned to wear a scarlet "A" for committing adultery. As Hester endures shame and isolation, she raises her daughter Pearl and protects the identity of the child’s father, the respected Reverend Dimmesdale. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s powerful exploration of guilt, sin, and redemption probes the heart of moral hypocrisy and human frailty. A foundational work of American literature, The Scarlet Letter remains a timeless meditation on the complexities of judgment, punishment, and forgiveness.

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  Work (Annotated) - A Story of...

  Louisa May Alcott, June Ann Bristol

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  If Little Women is the story of Louisa May Alcott’s childhood, Work is a story of her adulthood. This semi-autobiographical novel takes the listener through a journey of life as a working woman before and after the Civil War. This annotated edition of Work: A Story of Experience includes the unabridged novel by Louisa May Alcott, as well as a biography of the author, written by June Ann Bristol, exploring her life experiences in relation to those of the story’s protagonist.

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  The Three Musketeers

  Alexandre Dumas

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  Originally published in 1844, "The Three Musketeers" is a historical adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas. Set in the early 17th century, the story follows young d'Artagnan, who travels to Paris with dreams of becoming a musketeer. He soon befriends three musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become involved in the political intrigues and conflicts between the royalists and the Cardinalists, supporters of Cardinal Richelieu. The novel is famous for its action, wit, and complex characters, and it has been adapted into numerous films, plays, and other media.

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