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Pub. Date
[2023].
Description
"Based on the real life of Lieutenant Annie Fox, Chief Nurse of Hickam Hospital, The Woman with a Purple Heart is an inspiring WWII novel of heroic leadership, courage, and friendship that also exposes a shocking and shameful side of history. Annie Fox will stop at nothing to serve her country. But what happens when her country fails her? In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an air force base in Honolulu. The...
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
A fictionalized biography by a man of two cultures, the Spanish one which he calls his night personality, and the French one which he calls his day personality. He describes his youth in Argentina, the discovery of his homosexuality and his emigration to France where he became the literary correspondent for the Paris newspaper, Le Monde.
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Sheriff Pat Garrett claimed that he killed Billy the Kid on July 14, 1881. John Poe, Garrett's deputy on the scene that night, and others, suggest that he killed the wrong man and covered it up. The controversy persists because of contradictions, irregularities and unanswered questions. A Question of Bounty follows Billy the Kid's outlaw adventures right to John Poe's version of his fateful encounter with Pat Garrett. The story concludes with the...
1108) Sherman's march
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Description
The infamous slash-and-burn campaign through the South by a Northern general during the Civil War. It is told by three people: a captain in the Union Army, a Southern widow and General Sherman himself. The novel illustrates both the cruelty and the necessity of the march.
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Series
Boudica novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Breaca Nic Graine comes of age and proves her brilliance in battle, catapulting her to the forefront of her tribesmen, who will rename her Boudica, "She Who Brings Victory."
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In 1468, the von Speyer brothers journey across the Alps to Venice, where they introduce Guttenberg's movable type. With competition on his heels, Wendelin von Speyer accepts his wife's advice and tempts the fates by publishing the first printed edition of Catullus's erotic verse, a move that will enrage the church, scandalize the city, and change lives forever.
1111) Championess
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Elizabeth Wilkinson's passion is bare-knuckle boxing. While working odd jobs to help her sister Tess pay off substantial debt, she earns extra coin fighting in back alleys and pubs. But when Tess's debts suddenly come due, Elizabeth bets everything on boxing to save Tess from debtors' prison. As she trains to become the best female fighter in London, she must face her family's painful past, confront the boxing rival from her childhood, and defy the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In the vein of The Engineer's Wife and Carolina Built, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia's Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black woman to establish and preside over a bank in the United States"--
1113) The last decision
Author
Series
Southern son volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Description
After Doc Holliday becomes involved in the most famous street fight in the wild West, his quiet life ends and he becomes the target for gunmen seeking retribution.
1114) The Mulberry Empire
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Follows the 1839 mission of fifty thousand British troops, who entered Afghanistan to replace the amir with someone less hostile, a campaign that led to the annihilation of the British forces and the triumph of the Afghans.
1115) The Queen's Lover
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Francine du Plessix Gray's beautifully realized historical novel reveals the untold love story between Swedish aristocrat Count Axel von Fersen and Marie Antoinette. The romance begins at a masquerade ball in Paris in 1774, when the dashing nobleman first meets the mesmerizing nineteen-year-old dauphine, wife of the reclusive prince who will soon become Louis XVI. This electric encounter launches a love affair that will span the course of the French...
1117) A star called Henry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
An IRA terrorist who fought for Irish independence in 1910s Dublin tells his story. He is Henry Smart, son of a brothel bouncer, who becomes a street urchin after his father goes to jail and his mother turns senile. He joins the movement and rises in its ranks to participate in the 1916 Easter Rising, including the famous attack on the post office.
1120) Alice and the assassin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In 1902 New York, Alice Roosevelt, the bright, passionate, and wildly unconventional daughter of newly sworn-in President Theodore Roosevelt, is placed under the supervision of Secret Service Agent Joseph St. Clair, ex-cowboy and veteran of the Rough Riders. St. Clair quickly learns that half his job is helping Alice roll cigarettes and escorting her to bookies, but matters grow even more difficult when Alice takes it upon herself to investigate a...
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