Katherine Howe
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English
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"The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of...
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379 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"During his summer term at NYU, student filmmaker Wes Auckerman meets an entrancing girl whose search for a lost ring may unlock a dark secret from her mysterious past"--
Aspiring filmmaker Wes Auckerman is just starting his summer term at NYU. While shooting a séance at a psychic's in the East Village, he meets a intoxicatingly beautiful girl named Annie. She is from the city, and yet she seems just as out of place as Wes feels. Lost in the chaos...
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275 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury -- bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood -- is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose...