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Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Language
English
Description
Amateur historian Anne describes her unexpected discovery of five seventeenth-century manuscripts that, astonishingly, tell the same strange story from vastly different points of view. With these five manuscripts, it falls upon Anne to piece together these interlocking stories, discover the fate of the lovers, and add her own layer of "truth" to a history and time period when there were no labels for who Tom and Joan might truly be.
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Series
Man from Waco volume 1
Language
English
Description
Meet John Bannack. Jailed for a crime he didn't commit. Busted out of a Texas State Prison. Running for freedom and gunning for justice. They call him . . .THE MAN FROM WACO.
As a young man, John Bannack worked hard on his brother's farm-until times got tough and his brother grew desperate. Desperate enough to rob a bank. Unfortunately, John's brother left a trail that led straight to the Bannack farm. When a posse showed up to make an arrest,...
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English
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"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...
24) The blood years
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them...
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English
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This extraordinary novel, inspired by real events, tells the story of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific. 1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race--a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawai'i--she sets her sights...
26) Grey dog
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English
Description
"A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women's historical fiction with delusions, wild beasts, and the uncontainable power of female rage The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd -- spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist -- accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students,...
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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English
Description
"Raised by an overprotective mother, bookish romantic Sandrine Oliver craves adventure, but nothing exciting ever happens in her sleepy seaside village. Until a handsome, mysterious stranger arrives and sweeps her off her feet…only to leave suddenly with no explanation. Lord Dane Walker, brother to the Duke of Rydell, is infamous for racing fast carriages and breaking hearts. But when his brother is mortally injured, Dane inherits the responsibilities...
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English
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"Governess Miss Viola Winslow is quite familiar with the rules of society, and her place in it. Still, it hasn't stopped her from being horribly in love with the Duke of Huntington for years. But while the duke knows little of her foolish passions, the same cannot be said of Viola's charge--a precocious fourteen-year-old obsessed with her governess's secret romance. As a confirmed bachelor with no interest in marriage, the Duke of Huntington prefers...
29) Ruby's piano
Author
Publisher
Linford
Language
English
Description
1887. Ruby's beloved piano has been taken to auction to pay off her father's debts. After finding out the name of its purchaser, Simeon Sinclair, she wonders if she might approach him and offer to buy it back from him, paying in instalments. But her father warns her to stay away from the Sinclairs. Ruby persists, however, and uncovers the secret that led to a feud between their two families. Can she and Simeon find a future together despite it?
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Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Language
English
Description
Abducted by Danish warrior Erik Halverson who wants to use her as a pawn in his game to bring honor back to his family, spirited highlander Hannah Sinclair turns the tables on her captor, making his heart turn traitor.
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English
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"On a warm night in September, Yvonne Rudellat's house is bombed. Almost everything she owns is destroyed. Yvonne has no one left. She and her husband have long been estranged; her daughter, Jackie, is married and occupied with war work. Yvonne is no use to anyone-older, diminutive, always overlooked. As she prepares to take her own life, fate offers her a new path. Almost no one believes she can do it. She is a woman, unaccustomed to this form of...
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Series
Royal match volume 4
Language
English
Description
The Countess of Dearborn, keeping her no-good husband's family believing he's alive and well so they don't kick her out, is stunned when the Weslorian Earl of Marlaine arrives from Egypt, duty bound to return her deceased husband's precious pocket watch, and draws him into her ruse.
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Publisher
Forever
Language
English
Description
A newly minted duke, Gabriel Cadieux, who has never been welcomed by polite society, makes a deal with Vivienne Tremeer: if she teaches his six rebellious half-sisters the ways of the ton, he'll forgive her brother's gambling debts--a devil's bargain that could cause the scandal of the season.
35) Testament
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Series
Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 9
Language
English
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Years of Hyksos rule have seen the ruin and suffering of a once-mighty Egypt. Though the Pharaoh is now restored to his rightful throne, his power is fragile, as some seek to take advantage of the chaos following the overthrowing of the Hyksos. Desperate to unite the two divided kingdoms of Egypt, the great mage Taita sends his protege Piay to discover the answer to an ancient riddle which has the power to secure the fate of Egypt forever. But in...
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Publisher
Linford
Language
English
Description
Travelling along a muddy road one dreary January day, Hugo Redford witnesses a tilbury overturn into a ditch. Racing to offer assistance, he helps the beautiful Verity Padmore from the wrecked carriage. Aided by her best friend Charlie Blunt, she had been racing to her grandfather's house in the hope of escaping her engagement to the odious Mr Maltravers, a betrothal arranged to save her parents from ruin. Can Hugo find a way to set her free?
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Series
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Language
English
Description
Summer, AD 672. Princess Gelgeis has arrived in Cashel with her personal bodyguard, a troop of female warriors called the Daughters of the Storm. When one of them is found slain next to the sleeping chamber of the newly married king and queen and, a short time later, the stewardess of the royal house is poisoned, questions are raised as to everyone's safety. Fidelma and Eadulf must first explain the 'locked room' mystery of how the attack took place...
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English
Description
"1960, New York City: College student Rita Klein is a pioneering woman in the new field of computer programming--until she unexpectedly becomes pregnant. At the Hudson Home for Unwed Mothers, social workers pressure her into surrendering her baby for adoption. Rita is struggling to get on with her life when she meets Jacob Nassy, a charming yet troubled man from the Netherlands who is traumatized by his childhood experience of being separated from...
40) Iwo, 26 Charlie
Author
Series
World War II novels (P. T. Deutermann) volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
"The island of Iwo Jima was the epic land and sea battle that produced one of the iconic images of WWII: the Marines raising the American flag on Mount Surabachi, an active volcano that was the site of intense hand to hand combat. In this gripping novel, Deutermann follows a young gunnery liaison officer, Lee Bishop, who during the ferocious battle for the island is pulled from his station aboard the USS Nevada to serve on-shore as a spotter, calling...
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