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From #1 New York Times bestselling author/illustrator
Brian Selznick, a profoundly romantic YA novel about two boys
finding each other and falling in love over one summer in Rome.

"I'm going to call you Danny. What are you going to name me?"

"Angelo."

Danny is spending his sixteenth summer in…

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A perfect travel companion during my trip to Rome.

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Daughters of the Beau Monde who don’t fit London society’s strict mold are banished to Stranje House, where the headmistress trains these unusually gifted girls to enter the dangerous world of spies in the Napoleonic wars. #1 NYT bestselling author…

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