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11801) The winds of god
Author
Series
Wakefield dynasty volume 2
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
The sweeping saga of the noble Wakefields and the lower-class Morgans continues with this compelling account of the Spanish Armada during the reign of Elizabeth I.
11802) The Canyon
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Deep in Cheyenne territory, a war hungry group of Indians meet and plan to attack a rival tribe. One young Cheyenne, Little Bear, refuses to fight. He has earned admiration for his courage and skill in hunting, but now, as a rite of passage into adulthood, he must spend two weeks alone in the wilds, eating only what nature provides. Is Little Bear tough enough to survive?
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The review in the Paris Times in November 1928 is rapturous in its praise of Lucia Joyce's skill and artistry as a dancer. The family has made their home in Paris--where the latest ideas in art, music, and literature converge. Acolytes regularly visit the Joyce apartment to pay homage to Ireland's exiled literary genius. Among them is a tall, thin young man named Samuel Beckett--a fellow Irish expat who idolizes Joyce and with whom Lucia becomes...
11804) The blue and distant hills
Author
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
Description
The romance of Questa Adamson, a 17-year-old English girl managing an inherited farm on her own. She keeps having dreams of a youth who lived in the area 2,000 years earlier during the Roman occupation. One day she discovers that a neighbor has a son, bearing a striking resemblance to the youth. By the author of First Love, Last Love.
11805) Bridgerton: It's in his kiss
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Meet Our Hero. Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past and the key to his future. The problem is--it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. Meet Our Heroine. All the to[wn] agreed: there was no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. She's fiendishly...
11806) Lost in Paris: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Hannah Bond has always been a bookworm, which is why she fled Florida - and her unstable, alcoholic mother - for a quiet life leading Jane Austen-themed tours through the British countryside. But on New Year's Eve, everything comes crashing down when she arrives back at her London flat to find her mother, Marla, waiting for her. Marla's brought two things with her: a black eye from her ex-boyfriend and an envelope. Its contents? The deed to an apartment...
11807) Murder in postscript
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When one of her readers asks for advice following a suspected murder, Victorian countess and agony aunt Amelia has no choice but to investigate in this first book in a thrilling new historical mystery series. Amelia Amesbury-widow, mother, and countess-is bored, crushingly so. In an attempt to fill the days, Amelia becomes an "agony aunt" for a London penny paper, doling out advice on fashion, relationships, and manners. But when a lady's maid writes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In this first novel of the exhilarating Spymasters series, a man who will become the original MI6 agent protects England and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I from Spain's nefarious plan to crush the Age of the Enlightenment.
After centuries locked in an endless cycle of poverty, persecution, and barbarity, Europe has finally emerged into the Age of Enlightenment. Scientists, philosophers, scholars, and poets alike believe this to be a new era of reason...
11811) In feast or famine
Author
Series
Egyptian chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After four-year-old Asenath's mother is murdered by Egypt's foreign rulers, the child is raised to be a priestess by her overprotective father -- high priest of Egypt's sun god. For fifteen years, Asenath is sequestered in the upper levels of Ra's temple, convinced it is her destiny to heal the land by becoming queen to the next Egyptian pharaoh. But when Egypt's foreign king instead gives her as a bride to the newly appointed vizier -- a Hebrew...
11812) Someday we will fly
Author
Formats
Description
Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.--
"Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is 15 when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her younger sister, Naomi, to Shanghai, one of the few places that will accept Jews without visas. There they struggle to make a life;...
11814) Legacy of blood
Author
Series
Spartan quest volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
When Lysander and his barracks are sent to Taras, Italy, to protect a vital trading post threatened by a local uprising, he spies a statue of a figure wearing the Fire of Ares and sets out to discover his connection to the city, hoping to learn more of his mysterious heritage.
11815) The night inspector
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
In post-Civil War New York, an investor mounts an operation to free a group of children held as slaves in Florida. The investor is William Bartholomew who served in the Union army as a sniper and he does it at the behest of his Creole girlfriend. By the author of The Mutual Friend.
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Description
"...At a time when lady photographers are supposed to take 'pretty' pictures, [Kate Burke] exposes the massacre of hundreds of Indian women, children, and old men at Wounded Knee Creek. In a place where respectable wives don't 'get familiar' with 'the natives,' Kate risks her life to document the women of the Sacred Sioux Quillworkers... And before she is finished shooting, Kate will take on the entire U.S. Seventh Calvary..."--Cover.
11817) The Windeby Puzzle
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive. In an utterly one-of-a-kind blend of fiction and history, a master storyteller explores the mystery and life of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body.
Estrild is not like the other girls in her village, she wants to be a warrior. Varick, the orphan boy who helps her...
11818) 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...
11819) The thing about thugs
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous Thugee cult. With tales of a murderous youth redeemed, Ali gains passage to England, his villainously shaped skull there to be studied. Only Ali knows just how embroidered his story is, so when a killer begins depriving London's underclass of their heads, suspicion naturally falls on...
11820) Angels of music
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Deep in the shadows under the Paris Opera House resides Erik the Phantom, mysteriously enduring through the decades as the mastermind behind a strange and secret agency. A revolving door of female agents are charged by wealthy Parisians and the French Government to investigate crimes and misdemeanours they would prefer to keep out of the public eye. The toxic underbelly of Paris is exposed by Erik's tenacious women operatives as they confront horror...