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Author
Series
Publisher
A Voice in the World Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
539 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Carrie and her housemates battle cholera in Philadelphia. Her world is turned upside down when she discovers the truth of her heritage. Will it completely change her path? Robert watches his dreams fade before his eyes when he refuses to align himself with southern beliefs after the war. Rose has to face down a new threat, and Moses is forced to step into the role he has avoided. Janie has agreed to marry Matthew, but can she actually move beyond...
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub., Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
84 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A letter arrives for Caroline, asking her to come help her uncle Aaron and cousin Lydia on their new farm for the summer. Although Caroline is reluctant to leave her family, she's eager to lend a hand. So when she suspects that a thief has been stealing much-needed food from the farm, Caroline helps keep watch to guard against the uninvited visitor. Then she makes an unexpected discovery--and learns that some things are not as simple as they seem....
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub., Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
89 p. : col. ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caroline's father has just returned when they receive frightening news--British warships are sailing to attack Sackets Harbor. Every grown man, including Papa, has been called to defend the village. Mama and Caroline are left alone to guard Abbott's Shipyard as the battlefront draws ever closer. Caroline knows she must be brave to keep Papa's shipyard safe. But when the battle seems lost, Mama gives her a terrible order: burn the shipyard to the ground....
6) Unraveled
Author
Publisher
[Createspace]
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Part of the author's Turner series, the novel is set in Bristol, England in the 1840s and surrounds the activities of a magistrate, Smite Turner known as Lord Justice, and Miranda Darling, a witness in one of his cases that was presented in his courtroom.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xxi, 326 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
How far would you go for Rome? Carthage, 146 BC. This is the story of Fabius Petronius Secundus - Roman legionary and centurion - and his rise to power: from his first battle against the Macedonians, that seals the fate of Alexander the Great's Empire, to total war in North Africa and the Seige of Carthage. Fabius's success brings him admiration and respect, but also attracts greed and jealousy - the closest allies can become the bitterest of enemies....
Author
Publisher
Pronghorn Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When young Mariano Medina witnesses a vicious attack on a girl he adores, he flees in inexplicable terror. Fifteen years later, as a grown man training horses along the Oregon Trail, he has a chance to redeem himself if he can overcome his cowardly urge to flee. His choice will lead Medina back to the land of his childhood, where he must confront his darkest fears and uncover the hidden source of his panic in the ghostly stare that haunts his dreams....
Author
Language
English
Description
Margaret Plantagenet was born near the end of the Wars of the Roses. As the daughter of the brother of King Edward V, a situation could well have arisen when she or her brother, Edward, had a claim to the throne. This situation did arise when Edward V's children were declared to be illegitimate as Richard III usurped the throne. Richard III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth and Henry Tudor became King. Henry VII had only a slender claim to the...
11) Apollo
Author
Language
English
Description
In Ancient Greece, an 18-year-old farmhand and his twin sister embark on an epic adventure to protect their mother, and all they know and love, from Hera, the vengeful queen of the gods. Apollo is a graphic novel of classic Greek mythology, uniquely re-imagined within the H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos universe.
12) Guy Fawkes
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Guy Fawkes first appeared as a serial in Bentley's Miscellany, between January and November 1840. The first of William Harrison Ainsworth's seven "Lancashire novels", the story is based on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Ainsworth relied heavily on historical documents describing the trial and execution of the conspirators, of whom Fawkes was one, but he also embellished the known facts. He...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nedford "No-Fuss" Knemis, born in the everglades of South Florida as a mix of Seminole Indian and White American, is taken to Europe to be educated after his parents are killed in an everglades boating mishap. Ned the No-Fuss proceeds to squander his grandmother's inheritance, gambling at the casinos in Europe, and getting into failed marriages. By chance he is recruited by a Greek spy operative to work in spydom, in the Balkans, and in North Africa....
Author
Language
English
Description
The second book of a trilogy, Seed of the Volga encompasses the lives of the author's great-grandparents. Beginning in Germany, 1861 the Steiner family is traced from an unwed and pregnant princess in the Black Forest, to the banks of Russia's Volga River. The reader is gripped by the dire dilemma of the Princess Theraisa Von Steiner as she mourns the death of her intended husband and is frantic to hide her pregnancy. Based on the true story of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Torn between two cultures, Hans Reinert struggles to learn English. Who is he? German or American? Embarrassed at school, he runs to Das Deutsche Haus for comfort and solace. Christmas approaches, and Hans wants a miracle from St. Nikolas. Enjoy God's profound answer to Hanss question, "Who am I?"
Author
Language
English
Description
Marie du Trieux, a tavern keeper with a salty tongue and a heart of gold, struggles as she navigates love and loss, Native wars, and possible banishment by authorities in the unruly trading port of New Amsterdam, an outpost of the Dutch West India Company.
In New England, John Tinker, merchant and assistant to a renowned alchemist and eventual leader of Connecticut Colony, must come to terms with a family tragedy of dark proportions, all the while...
Author
Language
English
Description
Victoria's Twins
The Rise of Manchester and Melbourne
"Tales of Fighting for Freedoms, Fortunes and Football"
This is a rich and dramatic historical novel that experiences the flowering of Manchester and Melbourne, two of the most significant cities of Queen Victoria's Empire, as they emerged and flourished during the turbulent years of the 19th and Early 20th centuries.
Both gave birth to world famous, liberal leaning newspapers, The...
19) The Light of a Destiny Dark: A Real-Life Novel of Hungary Under War Followed by Soviet Communism
Author
Language
English
Description
An easy-going American and an intense Hungarian are a mature couple who get engaged just as the Iron Curtain falls in 1989. Army vet Arnie Smith considers it great news, but refugee immigrant Julia Kertesz is swept with a cascade of raw hurts. As the two work through their differing views about that period in history, current family crises push them into deeper conflict until a revived trauma signals the end. The novel is based on a memoir written...
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