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"In her new novel, Nancy Horan has recreated a love story that is as unique, passionate, and overwhelmingly powerful as the one between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney depicted so memorably in Loving Frank. Under the Wide and Starry Sky chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and American divorcee Fanny...
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This book chronicles the author's return to the South Pacific after his struggle with alcoholism and time in rehab left him numb to life. He is now married to his sweetheart and father of two young boys. Deciding to retrace the path once traveled by the author of Treasure Island, he follows Robert Louis Stevenson to the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, the Gilberts, and Samoa, tumbling from one comic misadventure to another as he confronts his newfound...
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For nearly ten years my health had been declining; and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker to expect. It was suggested that I should try the South Seas; and I was not unwilling to visit like a ghost, and be carried like a bale, among scenes that had attracted me in youth and health. I chartered accordingly Dr. Merrit's schooner yacht, the Casco, seventy-four...
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Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family's boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop. Through strange coincidence, they meet a man who is eager to help them find the treasure: John, a sailor who knows all...
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"Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's letters and life, this book imagines the author as a child with dreams of becoming a writer. As he and his father visit one of the many lighthouses along the Scottish coast that were built by their family, young Louis begins composing a story in his head--one with storms, shipwrecks, and pirates--that will one day be published as Treasure Island."--
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"When young Jim Hawkins inherits a long lost treasure map, he hires the great ship Hispaniola to seek his fortune. With the good Captain Smollet at the helm and greedy Long John Silver at the heart of a dastardly plot, they set sail for adventure only to discover danger at every turn!"--Container.
8) The adventures of John Carson in several quarters of the world: a novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband--but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world, after writing such classics as Treasure Island,...
11) St. Ives
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During the Napoleonic wars in France, the Captain Jacques St. Ives, a French nobleman, is captured by the British and held prisoner in Scotland. There he falls in love with a local woman, befriends a British Major and discovers his long-lost Grandfather living just down the road. He escapes to reclaim his estate but his brother has other ideas.
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Graphic novel adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale in which scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll believes every human has two minds, one good and one evil. After many experiments, he develops a potion to separate them from each other. At first, he can control his transformations from good to evil, but soon his evil mind takes over and Dr. Jekyll becomes a hideous fiend known as Mr. Hyde.
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"A book so iconic that its title is synonymous with split personalities, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson was first released in 1886. The story of a virtuous Dr. Jekyll who mistakenly creates an alter ego of unadulterated evil serves as an examination of the duality of human nature and the battle between good and evil. Full of mystery and fright, this story has remained popular for more than a century...
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"Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child," Robert Louis Stevenson once said in a statement that perfectly captures the magic of his own fiction. Immensely popular during is brief life, he died in 1894 at the age of forty-four-he has never lacked for readers since. In the century that followed his death, many biographies have been written, each with its own R.L.S.: the sickly, dreaming child; the Bohemian dandy outraging Victorian Edinburgh;...
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Join Jim Hawkins as he sails the open seas searching for treasure and learning shapes along the way in Treasure Island:: A BabyLit Shapes Primer.. Spy the OVAL of Long John Silver's eye patch, the TRIANGLES in the sails of The Hispaniola, and the CROSS that marks the spot of lots o'treasure! But watch your back because dead men tell no tales.
20) Kidnapped!
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The story of a courageous young Scot kidnapped by a cutthroat sea captain.