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Description The first battle of St. Albanโs is over and the White Rose faction is victorious. They have captured Henry VI and, after having threatened him with violence, secured the kingโs promise of passing the crown to Edward Plantagenet after his death. Not willing to accept her sonโs disinheritance, Queen Margaret decides to take matters into her own hands and declares war on the Yorkists. Margaretโs forces invade Wakefield Castle, home to the Duke of York and his sons, and successfully
Description Rosemary, the former love of Peter Blakeney, is about to be married to one of Peterโs friends. A famous journalist, she is asked to come to Transylvania and report on the Romanian occupation following the first World War, having travelled there many times in her childhood with Peterโs mother. She agrees to move up her wedding so that her fiancรฉ can travel with her. Soon after they get there, Peterโs nephew and girlfriend are arrested for treason, and Rosemary is given a terrible
Description Martin Arrowsmith, the titular protagonist, grows up in a small Midwestern town where he wants to become a doctor. At medical school he meets an abrasive but brilliant professor, Gottlieb, who becomes his mentor. As Arrowsmith completes his training he begins a career practicing medicine. But, echoing Lewisโs Main Street , small-town life becomes too insular and restricting; his interest in research and not people makes him unpopular, and he decides to work in a research laboratory
Description Thuvia, Maid of Mars moves the focus of Burroughsโ Martian series to Carthoris, the son of the human John Carter and Martian Dejah Thoris and the prince of Helium. Princess Thuvia of Ptarth and Prince Carthoris of Helium are in love. Fate, however, is against them: the princess is promised to another, the Jeddak of Kaol, Kulan Tith. So when the princess is kidnapped, suspicion falls on Carthoris, who sets out as his father would have to rescue the damsel and clear his name. As the
Description At one of Robespierreโs โFraternal Suppers,โ a young man denounces Robespierre but is saved by an asthmatic vagabond. The young man flees to the home of his friend Theresia Cabarrus, who is engaged to one of the most important men in the government, and who is also desired by Robespierre himself. When the young man disappears from her home, allegedly at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the ever-present Chauvelin enlists her help in trying to capture the elusive Pimpernel. Events
Description At the age of 10, Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, is sent to live with her wealthy uncleโs family, the Bertrams, at the country estate of Mansfield Park. The Bertrams treat her cruelly at first, and Fanny has trouble fitting in. Her female cousins, Maria and Julia, are fashionable and vapid, and her elder male cousin, Tom, is a drunk. The only family member she feels a connection to is the younger Edmund, who is preparing for life in the clergy. When her uncle