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My Only Boy

by Rosa Rankin-Gee

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Other books by Rosa Rankin-Gee

Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee

The Last Kings of Sark by Rosa Rankin-Gee

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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Dreamland
by Rosa Rankin-Gee

The Last Kings of Sark
by Rosa Rankin-Gee

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

Dracula
by Bram Stoker