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"Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his...
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"Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollstonecraft died of infection at the age of 38, a week after giving birth to her daughter. Nevertheless their lives were closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies...
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Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
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"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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Sixth-grader Maggie is stuck with insufferable Jacob on a class writing project, and when they get into an argument over who really wrote the novel Frankenstein, they suddenly find themselves in Switzerland in 1816 where Lord Byron and Mary and Percy Shelley are planning to write a scary story each--the trouble is Mary has writer's block.
8) Frankenstein
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Examines the character of Frankenstein's Monster, looking at its influence on popular culture.
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"London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister Jane Clairmont, both sixteen, possess quick minds bolstered by an unconventional upbringing, and have little regard for the rules that other young ladies follow. Mary, whose mother famously advocated for women's rights, rejects the two paths that seem open to her-that of an assistant in her father's bookshop, or an ordinary wife. Though quieter and more reserved than the boisterous Jane, Mary's imagination...