Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
CHERYL HOLT continues to delight readers with the thrilling, dramatic second novel in her Jilted Brides trilogy… Winifred Watson grew up as the only daughter of a decorated war hero. When he died suddenly, she was shocked to learn that he was bankrupt and she lost everything to pay his final debts. She'd hoped to wed her fiancé-a steady, handsome man who would have guided her through the tumult of her father's death. But when her penury was revealed,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Brothers O'Neill" is a story told in the perspective of two brothers: one named Finn, who leads a rash and reckless life of gambling, scamming, and drifting, and Sean, who lives a strait-laced life with a successful marriage and career. This is a dramatic story based in Northern Ireland in the 1970s during the Troubles, infused with romance, suspense, and historical nods to the time period.
A compelling work of historical fiction, this book...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the starving years after the Civil War, a girl is born in the northern hills of Alabama. The mother dies, and the heart-broken grandmother gives the precious child to strangers to raise as their own. Rambunctious and inquisitive, the little girl wants to "know everything." Yet she finds herself surrounded by secrets: Who can she ask? Who can she tell?
Author
Series
Understanding Ursula novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thriving, book two of Corinne Jeffery's Understanding Ursula series, continues the story of the challenges of the intriguing and contentious Werners, a family of German Lutheran homesteaders on the Saskatchewan prairie. Become reacquainted with their dynamic lives as they try to keep pace with the flourishing new decade and later discover innovative ways to endure the hardships of the Great Depression.
With the return of prosperity to the Canadian...
Author
Series
Understanding Ursula novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Corinne Jeffery's Understanding Ursula trilogy vividly recreates the pioneer world of the Canadian prairies with a multitude of memorable characters. You'll lose yourself between the pages as you watch them struggle to survive and flourish, always at the mercy of Mother Nature and the ever-changing seasons on the unfettered plains.
On July 1, 1909, the day after his eighteenth birthday, Gustav Werner takes the inaugural ride on the Grand Trunk Pacific...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"I don't know how Mama knew Daddy was going to hurt us," Minnie says. She yanked us out of the bed and over to the wall. The door flew open. There was a huge explosion! Daddy had fired his shotgun into our bed." Minnie leaves boarding school to spend the summer at The Big House, her cherished Grandpa's home. She enjoys adventure, but she also learns of the dangers posed by the land and a river that can seduce the unwary. The arrival of Minnie's great-grandmother...
Author
Series
Dalriada trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Spanning three centuries, the series recreates Celtic Britain at the time of the Roman invasion: a land of visions and dreams, bloodshed and brutal death. It is AD 79 and Agricola, the ruthless governor of Roman Britain, is turning his attentions to the last unconquered territory in Britain--Alba, Scotland. Rhiann is a courageous and beautiful Scottish priestess scarred by her violent past. Of noble blood, she faces a forced marriage to protect the...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Yasna's family, violence is an heirloom passed down from generation to generation along with the richness of tradition, recipes, love and land. After the German invasion of World War II, supported by Serbian Chetniks, has massacred Bosniaks in the Balkans, leaving damaged homes, bodies and hearts in its wake, Samira's marriage is arranged for her, and she leaves her childhood home with her new husband, Azis. Samira struggles to retain her identity...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The first work in a trilogy of proto-histories about the advent of the Trojan War, Embassy Outbound offers readers a look at the Trojan War as a real war, waged by descendants of the earliest Greeks a full five hundred years before the birth of Homer. The author disproves the oft-cited allegation that the war was a composite of scattered eras and epochs by diverse bellicose people who lived and fought within the five centuries that intervened between...
Author
Language
English
Description
A teenage servant boy falls in with an astronomer scribe attached to the Court of Phraates the Fourth, King of the mighty Parthian Empire. The Chaldean scribe and his two best friends, an astrologer sage and a Hebrew scholar, puzzle over some unprecedented and possibly alarming signs in the heavens, including an unusual celestial object that is taking weeks to traverse the sky. There are ancient prophesies of a new king and a new order.
This account...
11) Deadly Marriage
Author
Language
English
Description
First Sergeant Steve Jackson USMC lands in Argentina as a man without a country and is quickly drawn into the intrigue and danger that is Argentina in 1939. Forced to leave the U.S., he lands near the southern tip of South America at Rio Gallegos, Argentina. Jackson is rescued from a death at sea and befriended by a wealthy estancia owner Graham Mac Arthur. He soon discovers nothing is what it seems, except for his desire for Sally Mac Arthur, Graham's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Heroes and scoundrels are not born – they are forged in the crucible of experience. Nothing anneals like living. At fifteen, Guinevere Walker and Jack Moylan are not yet galvanized for the future. In the roiling cauldron that is San Francisco of 1851 – a city devastated by suspicious fires, a dangerous brand of justice imposed by vigilantes from its formidable business community, and the cloud of slavery – the two face issues and questions that...
Author
Language
English
Description
Hitler's air force and army are in Spain-and the International Brigades are fighting them! Only a special man is recruited as the top Intelligence Officer for the International Brigades of Volunteers fighting the German-Italian-Spanish Fascist coalition in Spain in January, 1937. Having only recently returned from two years of studies in Moscow on a scholarship, American Labor Union Organizer and polyglot Johnny Gerlach is that man. He will be made...
Author
Language
English
Description
Enter the enthralling world of Ancient Persia-the world's first great empire-and experience the life and times of Cyrus the Great. Blending fact with fiction, this novel will introduce you to the visionary leader whose heroism and strength of character won the loyalty of his subjects as well as the hearts of two extraordinary women: the beautiful warrior Roxana and the exquisite Cassadane. Cyrus was a fearless military leader, strategically adding...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's 1942 and Humphrey Bogart seems to have it all. By day, he's reading lines for Casablanca with Ingrid Bergman; by night, he's drinking bourbon on the Sunset Strip with friends like Peter Lorre and Leslie Howard.
But to Bogart, life is not so glamorous. High-profile fights with his wife Mayo and a rigid studio contract committing him to a series of mediocre films have him feeling personally and professionally trapped.
That is, until one day...
16) Broken Tether
Author
Language
English
Description
"Broken Tether" is a breathtaking historical fiction novel about a group of women's courageous attempt to flee the terrorizing reign of the Taliban. In this story, a brave woman named Fahima, and her band of mothers and children, flee their rural village to distance themselves from the violent and restrictive lives they are forced to lead. Seeking better lives for their children, they risk everything to journey amid Taliban patrols, local militia...
Author
Language
English
Description
Jonathan has been in training all eighteen years of his life. Exactly what this intense training is for, he does not know, although the tutoring events in The Big Trees has led him into a "feel good" world of integrity and honor. But, to Jonathan, it was all simply a part of growing up in an atmosphere of doing the right thing.
What he cannot understand are reasons for the nefarious obstacles placed before him; but he knows that he must move forward...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Legend of Lilia" is the story of Lilia Litvyak, who at 15 made her first solo flight in a wood and canvas biplane. By the age of 21 she was the most dangerous woman in the sky as an ace fighter pilot over the Eastern Front of WWII. Research was gathered through in person interviews in post-Soviet Russia, with veteran female pilots and mechanics, Colonels of Lilia's regiment, historians, and declassified records from Soviet archives. "The Legend...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The last book in the Wyakin trilogy, Legend of the Shaman continues to follow the many racial and religious issues faced by Cortez Modrables. As an adult shaman, his greatest challenge comes when he falls in love with a Christian Nez Perce woman. Their racial, religious, social conflicts conspire to keep them apart-but will the Nez Perce War be their saving grace? Many books have been written about the so-called Nez Perce War and the several Nez Perce...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bucky Culp thrashed in his bunk beset by hideous, staring faces with stringy hair, tree bark skin, and deadly dangling tongues. Baying frightfully, these Falsefaces darted back and forth at a dizzying pace. The more they howled, the higher Bucky's temperature soared. Only the tender care of his Bucktail squad could cure him of the fever that killed more Civil War soldiers than bullets. The last year of Sergeant Culp's enlistment was his hardest yet....
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Penticton Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Items must be over 1 year old.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service for new books published this year. Submit Request