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Barefoot children selling flowers in the street for a few pennies. Revolutionaries demanding a more equal society and threatening to kill their young Queen. Dark-skinned strangers from Britain's colonies arousing fear and scorn among aristocrats and servants alike. London in 1846 is very far from the gracious society Charlotte Edgerton had imagined. Worst of all, her younger brother Tom is being drawn into political agitation that Charlotte fe...

Charlotte Edgerton would like to change the world but first she must track down a killer. The year is 1842, and Charlotte has left behind an impoverished life in England to come to America and join the Utopian community of Brook Farm in rural Massachusetts. At first it seems to be an idyllic world of like-minded people living in harmony. But soon cracks appeared. The mysterious death of a visiting minister threatens to undermine trust within t...

The future looks bright for Charlotte Edgerton when she moves to bustling New York City in 1843. But when first one and then another of the glamorous "sporting girls" who work in the city's famous brothels is murdered, Charlotte becomes aware of the darkness that lurks behind the bright glow of Broadway. New York is living up to its nickname of Sin City. Shocked by the arrest of a colleague's husband for one of the deaths, Charlotte and her fe...

This book presents practical new approaches for extending children's library services beyond the library building, utilizing technology to bring learning to children wherever they may be.

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