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Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1857, three sister wives in the Utah territory, after the U.S. Army’s invasion brings the rebellious Mormon community to heel, retreat into the hostile desert wilderness, resolving to keep themselves and their children alive and forming an unbreakable bond as they make a new definition of family.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
London, 1995: When on the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz a news broadcast runs an appeal for information on the identity of a midwife who saved hundreds of lives, Emilia knows it is time to finally tell her story. Occupied Poland, 1942: Emilia is allowed certain freedoms as a midwife. But Emilia has a secret: for years she’s also been visiting the hidden Jewish mothers and working for the resistance…until she is betrayed. Suddenly...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
World War II arrives at the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate and MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with investigating at the same time one of the daughters takes a secret job at Bletchley Park.
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Returning to his village after escaping the Roman army, Spartacus is betrayed by his jealous king and forced into life as a gladiator before executing a daring overthrow and assuming leadership over an army of escaped slaves.
Author
Series
Emmeline Lake chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An adventurous young woman takes a typist job to assist the war effort and lands in the employ of a renowned advice columnist before she begins secretly replying to heart-wrenching letters rejected as unsuitable.
26) A rake's vow
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Accustomed to organizing her own affairs and those of her teenage brother, lovely Patience Debbington finds her life turned upside down by the dashing Vane Cynster, an arrogant rake with an antipathy toward matrimony.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1951, Blackburn Gant, the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery, is charged with caring for his best friend’s wife, Naomi, when he is drafted to serve overseas, and as Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer, a shocking revelation upends numerous lives.
28) Wolves of winter
Author
Series
Essex dogs trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting-and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France 'til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield. Obsessed with tracking down...
29) Master of war
Author
Series
Master of war (David Gilman) volume 1
Publisher
Head Of Zeus
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
1346: For Thomas Blackstone the choice is easy - dance on the end of a rope for a murder he did not commit, or take up his war bow and join the king's invasion. As he fights his way across northern France, Blackstone learns the brutal lessons of war - from the terror and confusion of his first taste of combat, to the savage realities of siege warfare. Vastly outnumbered, Edward III's army will finally confront the armoured might of the French nobility...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather's stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time. The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. Thomas...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Bringing to life Tenochtitlan at its height and reimagines its destiny, the author takes us back to 1519 where conquistador Hernan Cortes meets emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages and two possible futures.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1908 Manchuria, Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the identity of a dead courtesan, while a secretive woman named Snow, seeking vengeance for her lost child, navigates the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits to find a murderer.
Author
Series
Sisters of the Rockies volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Juniper and her sisters travel west to find the Blackfoot Piegan woman their late father credits with saving his life. Riley became a trapper in the Rocky Mountains to find peace and quiet, but he feels compelled to help the sisters on their mission. When it becomes clear they're now under pursuit, the questions mount as danger closes in"--
Author
Series
Letters of enchantment volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
"When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever."--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. In London, rumors of a "fallen angel" cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot's headline-making murder draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city's most mesmerizing mysteries. Among them: Daily News crime reporter Julia Harpman, chasing the story while navigating a male-dominated industry; righteous NYPD detective John D. Coughlin, struggling...
39) The French Prize
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jack Biddlecomb has much to live up to as the eldest son of the esteemed Captain Isaac Biddlecomb, wealthy merchant captain, leading light of the War for American Independence, and newly minted congressman. Jack finds himself off to a promising start when he's given command of the merchant vessel Abigail bound from Philadelphia for Barbados. But even before the dock lines are cast off, the voyage begins to look like a stormy passage indeed. Jack is...
Author
Series
Golden Wolf saga volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After Freydis is kidnapped, Ragnvald and his sister Svanhild each grapple with a difficult decision as they pursue their destinies and honor their ancient gods.
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