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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a fictionalized account of the life and challenges of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind woman to learn language, and those who helped her, including the founder of the Perkins Institute, with whom she was in love, and her beloved teacher.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
371 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through. German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education--and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda's driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century...
Author
Language
English
Description
A richly imagined novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family. On January 21, 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. At thirty-one years old, she has no previous experience of either teaching or fine country houses. Her mother has died, and she has nowhere else to go. Anne is left with no choice. For her new charge--twelve-year-old...
85) Light on bone
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Step aside Miss Marple, Eugenia Potter, and Kinsey Millhone— Georgia O'Keeffe is the new sleuth in town! Kathryn Lasky brings the rich imagination of her YA and Juvenile books to Light On Bone, a stunning, suspenseful adult mystery. Vivid prose brushstrokes bring the legendary artist, the Southwest landscape she loved, and a complicated plot with historical and imagined characters to life."— Katherine Hall Page, author of the award-winning Faith...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
445 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In late March 1944, as Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel decide they must run in retreat from their land with murderous Nazi officers they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. The world would not look upon his like again. John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript-about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain-cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa, in Gloucestershire. Jane decides to use some of the profits...
90) Fourth dawn
Author
Series
A.D. chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xv, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An audacious novel of feminine rage about one of the most prolific female serial killers in American history-and the men who drove her to it. They whisper about her in Chicago. Men come to her with their hopes, their dreams-their fortunes. But no one sees them leave. No one sees them at all after they come to call on the Widow of La Porte. The good people of Indiana may have their suspicions, but if those fools knew what she'd given up, what was...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The courageous, spirited Mary Queen of Scots tells her own story--from her youth as a young girl married to the invalid young King of France to her short reign as Queen of Scotland and her tragic imprisonment by her ruthless, merciless cousin Queen Elizabeth.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some women make headlines; an icon defies them. A vivid reimagining of the exhilarating and sensationalized life of Princess Grace of Monaco from the acclaimed author of The Kennedy Debutante. Hungry for her art and hopeful for the future, young Grace Kelly has the world at her feet. MGM's rising queen is poised to win the Oscar, but she chafes at the studio's increasing restrictions on her life. When an unexpected friendship develops between her...
95) The spy: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
A novel of Mata Hari's final days, as written by the woman herself while accused of espionage --
96) Revolutionary
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a fictionalized account of Deborah Sampson Gannett, who defied the rigid societal and social norms of her times to disguise herself as a man, join the Continental Army, and fight against the British during the American Revolution.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imagine growing up the gay daughter of Sigmund Freud, who taught that lesbianism can be a gateway to mental illness. Furthermore, he said that lesbianism is caused by the father and is curable by psychoanalysis.
Now imagine that he analyzes you.
That's the premise of award-winning science journalist Rebecca Coffey's fact-based novel, Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Roundtable of the American Library...
99) Billy the Kid
Author
Series
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
1979, c1953
Physical Desc
xiii, 293 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
100) Alias Butch Cassidy
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1968, c1967]
Physical Desc
209 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
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