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The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the Puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter °' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honor. For the next...
3) Loyalty
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[2022]
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To avenge his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British during the American Revolution, witnessing firsthand the hypocrisy, lies, and allegiances that come with war, and must determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies.
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Twenty-two year old Jane Clarke is sent to Boston when she refuses to marry her father's business partner. She arrives in the city on the eve of the Revolutionary War, and facing the events of the times, finds herself caught between tradition and independence, family and conscience, loyalty and love.
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"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester...
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American family portrait volume 2
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c1995
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Book 2, American Family Portrait series. Their family ripped apart by a powerful and ruthless merchant, Benjamin Morgan's three children must battle enemies among the Narragansett Indians, ruthless Boston merchants, and pirates on the high seas. Their survival depends on developing an indomitable spirit, the kind that would come to characterize a fledgling nation.
7) Saturnalia
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[1990]
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In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
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Time-traveling twins volume 2
Pub. Date
2001
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With the help of their grandmother's hat, the twins journey back in time to the Boston Tea Party.
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Maximilian P. Mouse time traveler volume 1
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2014.
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In an attempt to save his family's oak tree home, Maximilian uses Nathaniel Chipmunk's time machine to try and prevent Farmer Tanner from selling the property to a developer, but finds himself more than two centuries in the past, in the middle of the Boston Tea Party, instead.
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At the heels of history volume 1
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[2019]
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Filigree the Pomeranian, the smallest dog in Boston, and nine-year-old Frances Revere help her father, Paul Revere, on his mission to warn colonists that British soldiers are coming in 1775. Includes historical notes.
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[2007]
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In 1773, twelve-year-old Silence works to please her mother through household chores and weekly etiquette lessons in hopes of spending time with her beloved horse, Lily, while the men of Boston, including her Loyalist father and brother, discuss a possible war over taxation without representation.
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Ghostly graphic adventures volume 1
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c2011
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While on a school field trip, Joey and Tank encounter a ghostly captain aboard a historical ship and, upon their return that night, travel through time and become involved in the Boston Tea Party.
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[2011]
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"With the outbreak of the American revolution, Abigail Lovell's family is torn apart--while her schoolmaster father is an outspoken loyalist and prominent figurehead in the community, she and her two brothers engage in acts of espionage to undermine the British forces in Boston. Her sickly older brother, James, operates the patriots' spy ring while Abigail acts as a courier, eluding increasingly aggressive British patrols. Meanwhile, her younger brother,...