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The Return: Midnight is the seventh book in L.J. Smith's New York Times bestselling Vampire Diaries series.

Elena Gilbert is back from the Dark Dimension, having successfully freed her vampire boyfriend Stefan Salvatore from imprisonment. Saving Stefan had an unlikely consequence: his vampire brother Damon Salvatore has become mortal. While the trio reels from

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Helen shares her struggles with unassuming charm and intelligence: the frustration of not being able to express herself-- like wandering though a dense fog-- and the happiness of finally apprehending light breaking through the mist. The joy she felt when she first made the connection between the word water and the cold, wet liquid that poured over her fingers, comes spilling onto the pages with girlish, infectious enthusiasm. Written when she was...

This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann.

Spanning from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, this volume covers the author's experiences in Mexico, California, New York, and Paris; her psychoanalysis; and her experiment with LSD.

Twelve-year-old Emma receives unexpected friendship from a Black roustabout and a Union soldier during an explosion on the steamboat Sultana in 1865.

Twelve-year-old Sarah breaks the Sabbath in Puritan New England and faces a moral dilemma when an innocent person is accused in her place.

The diary of a ten-year-old schoolgirl who lived in western New York during the 1850s records her family and school life, clothing, transportation, and views on women's rights.

Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionary War. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.