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Polish Marc fosters 15-year-old Victòria
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Very reasonable!  There's "In the desert and the jungle" with a lion on the cover, "Captain Blood" with a pirate ship, "With Fire And Sword" with a battle scene, "Winnetou" with a long-haired man on a horse, "The Three Musketeers" with some fancy-looking noblemen, and whole shelves more.  These people really like putting very detailed colorful pictures on their books!  And they really like adventure novels.

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Back home the little paintings in front would've probably cost more than the rest of the book cut together. It's not the sort of thing you could do with a woodcut, she doesn't think.

Are any of the books about woman adventurers, as far as she can tell from the covers? Back home that sort of thing wasn't too hard to find, but the Asmodeans said that other countries women were hardly allowed to do anything, and she doesn't know how much of that was a lie.

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... Yeah, it sure looks like the Asmodeans were right about that one.  She's not finding any books about women in the adventure section.  There are some in the "fantasy" section, some in history, more in "novels of manners" and romances.

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Well, if the romance novels here are anything like the Asmodean kind, she'd rather avoid them. (Probably they're not exactly the same, but still.) Novels of manners sound like they could be useful for learning about what sorts of things get you punished, but not that interesting to read, and she's got no idea what fantasy even is. She'll take a look at whichever story about adventurers has the prettiest cover, not counting the ones that look like they're obviously about nobles.

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The pirate one it is!  It starts with the main character peacefully practicing medicine and being sentenced to death by an evil judge for healing some wounded rebels against the government.  Instead of being hanged, he's sold into slavery on some island colony because the Crown wants the money.  When a foreign ship attacks the colony, he and several companions in a similar situation attack it, capture it, and sail away to a long and successful pirate career with the ex-doctor as their captain.  They do a lot of entertainingly outfoxing evil nobles, freeing slaves from ships they capture, planning daring missions to save their friends from certain death, and the like.  The captain has a slow and very un-Asmodean romance with the niece of the evil noble who originally bought him.

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