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While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son, Jim Hawkins, find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger. Jim sets out for Treasure Island with honest Captain Smollett, heroic Dr. Livesey, and obtuse Squire Trelawney, encountering Long John Silver and his band of pirates along the way. The unexpected and complex relationship that develops between Silver...
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"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper seeks to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths...
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When Anne Frank was thirteen, she received a diary for her birthday. It was her favourite present and she couldn't wait to start writing in it. But just a few weeks later thirteen-year-old Anne's world was turned upside down. German Nazi soldiers invaded her country and Ann's family were forced to hide away from everyone and everything they knew and loved. Over the next two years Anne's diary became her only friend. She wrote everything down, from...
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