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William Hickling Prescott

Expounds upon the virtues of Mexico while seeking to explain the tragedy of the country's defeat in terms of its neighboring civilizations.

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Tim Severin

Seventeen-year-old Hector Lynch and his sister Elizabeth are taken prisoner by slave catchers. Hector's life plunges into a turbulent and lawless world that is full of surprises. Separated from Elizabeth, he is sold to the slave market of Algiers. There, he survives with the help of his newfound friend Dan, a Miskito Indian from the Caribbean.

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Joan Hiatt Harlow

In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise. Includes historical notes.

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Ėlen Gremiĭon

Argentina, konet͡s 1980-kh. Strana tolʹko-tolʹko nachala prikhoditʹ v sebi͡a posle mnogoletneĭ voennoĭ diktatury Khorkhe Videla. Odnazhdy psikhoanalitik Vittorio vli͡ubilsi͡a s pervogo vzgli͡ada v krasavit͡su Lisandru, vserʹez uvlechennui͡u tango. Proĭdet neskolʹko let, brak Vittorio i Lisandry medlenno razrushaetsi͡a, i vot odnim sirenevym vecherom pod zvuki tango Lisandra vypadaet iz okna. Sama ona reshila svesti schety s zhiznʹi͡u? A mozhet, za ee smertʹi͡u stoit kto-to iz pat͡sientov Vittorio, raskryvshikh na seansakh u psikhoanalitika vsi͡u podnogotnui͡u svoeĭ dushi? Ili Lisandra stala zhertvoĭ muzha - idealʹnogo kandidata na rolʹ ubiĭt͡sy? I lishʹ Eva Marii͡a, odna iz samykh vernykh poklonnit͡s talantlivogo vracha, ubezhdena v ego nevinovnosti i reshaet rassledovatʹ tainstvennui͡u smertʹ.