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Outlander novels volume 4
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Scottish soldier Jamie Fraser and his wife, Claire Randall, a twentieth century doctor who has traveled two centuries back in time, find themselves in South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution, where they must fight to save a young girl.
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Series
Outlander novels volume 1
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The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord... 1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues...
3) Forge
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Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 2
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Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher,...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB-often called consumption-was a death sentence. Then, in triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the...
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Pub. Date
2012.
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A chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post. His four rivals are so far behind him that, in racing terms, they are "nowhere." Watching Eclipse is the man who wants to buy him. An adventurer and rogue who has made his money through gambling, Dennis O'Kelly is also companion to the madam of a notorious London brothel. While O'Kelly is destined to remain an outcast to the racing establishment, his horse will...
11) Outlaws
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Traces the history of the highwaymen in England from the 16th to the 19th Century.
13) A battle won
Author
Series
Charles Hayden novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Commander Charles Hayden is called upon to captain HMS Themis. The ship is tasked with escorting valuable supplies to Admiral Hood, who is locked in a bitter fight with the French navy for control of the island of Corsica.
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A history of the smallpox epidemic that infected America during the Revolutionary War. Brought to North America by Europeans, the disease spread throughout the Continental Army, ultimately claiming more lives than weaponry did. The epidemic simultaneously moved across the continent, ravaging slaves, Native Americans, and settlers from Mexico City to Hudson's Bay.
18) Betsy Ross
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Pub. Date
2003
Description
Introduces the life of Betsy Ross, an American patriot during the Revolutionary War who enjoyed telling her family about how she sewed the first American flag
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