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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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With her husband and son off at war, and the burden of running the farm falling to her, Joetta, shunned because she doesn't support the Confederacy's position on slavery, finds one act of kindness bringing her family to the edge of even greater disaster.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A disgraced doctor’s quest for surgical renown in 19th-century America leads him down a horrifying path of experimentation on marginalized women at a New Jersey asylum, until his obsession with a young Irish indentured servant brings about his ultimate destruction.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Told from many perspectives and voices, this gripping story of a global war that almost happened: the Cuban Missile Crisis, brings to life the many threads that led to the building crisis between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in 1962.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Set in Syracuse, Sicily, during the Peloponnesian War but told in contemporary Irish dialect, Glorious Exploits follows Lampo and Gelon, best friends since childhood. Thrilled to have survived the Athenians' recent invasion and as shocked by the Syracusan victory as everyone else, these unemployed potters are in a mood to celebrate. Of course, they hate the Athenians. Still, that doesn't mean you can't love the theatre of their great playwright Euripides,...
5) The familiar
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.
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Series
Magic tree house volume 39
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Jack and Annie are whisked away to Mongolia to meet the near-extinct little horses and their caretakers, but can they help protect the last of the horses from predators?"--
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