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2) Tidelands
Author
Series
Fairmile novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
1648, England is in the grip of civil war, and an herbalist seeking to escape an abusive relationship is targeted by witchcraft mania in her tidelands community.
Author
Language
English
Description
Against the electrifying backdrop of the 1960s, Danielle Steel unveils the gripping chronicle of a young woman discovering a passion for justice and of the unsung heroes she encounters on her quest to fight the good fight. Encompassing the remarkable people the protagonist, Meredith, meets, the historic events she witnesses, and the sacrifices she must make, this is the story of a woman changing her world as she herself is changed by it.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison.
Author
Series
Fairmile novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in 17th-century England. On the brink of civil war, Livia has convinced Alinor to save the queen from the coming siege while her brother returns from America to join the rebel army,
9) The wrecker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.
10) The jealous kind
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Intervening when he sees the beautiful and gifted Valerie Epstein fighting with her boyfriend, Aaron Holland Broussard inadvertently challenges the power of the Mob in his Korean War-era Texas community.
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While Harry and Emma race to discover the fate of their son after a terrible car accident, Don Pedro Martinez plots to install a puppet chairman at the Barrington Shipping Company and Jessica's nuptials are sabotaged by a poisonous friend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After Virginia Dean, sensing dark powers at work, wakes up with a bloody knife in her hand and lying next to a dead body, the only person who believes she did not commit murder is Owen Sweetwater, a hunter of psychical monsters who is investigating the deaths of two glass readers.
15) The spy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Twentieth century detective Isaac Bell takes on the world of warfare when America’s naval research and development experts begin to die one by one in this #1 New York Times-bestselling historical action adventure.
1908 marks a year of ever-escalating international tension as the world plunges toward war. And with America on the brink, it comes as a devastating blow to learn of the apparent suicide of one of the United...
1908 marks a year of ever-escalating international tension as the world plunges toward war. And with America on the brink, it comes as a devastating blow to learn of the apparent suicide of one of the United...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people...
Author
Series
Mercy Falls novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1907 California, nanny Addie Sullivan has found work at a lavish estate, but when she arrives at Eaton Hall, nothing is as it seems. Not the idyllic family she dreamt of, not the child she was hired to help, not even the aloof man she's immediately attracted to. And the danger she had hoped to escape has followed her, and she soon finds herself turning to Daniel North -- a man she views with suspicion -- for help.
19) The lioness
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1964, Hollywood royalty Katie Barstow and her new husband, along with her glittering entourage, arrive for their luxury African safari, but are instead taken hostage by Russian mercenaries, in this blistering story of fame, race, love and death set in a world on the cusp of great change.
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