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14303) A matter of souls
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s.
14304) Legends of the Rif
Author
Series
Red Hand adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The winds of war sweep across Morocco as the Caid prepares to declare himself as supreme dictator. The only hope is a small ragtag group of resistance fighters who are disorganized and scattered across the desert and mountains. Tariq lies trapped with Melbourne Jack while Aseem and Fez search for the whereabouts of Malik and Sanaa. Meanwhile, Margaret prepares for a prison break from a Marseilles prison. And, finally, the mysteries of the Red Hand...
14306) The ghosts of Sherwood
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Robin of Locksley and his one true love, Marian, are married. It has been close to two decades since they beat the Sheriff of Nottingham with the help of a diverse band of talented friends. King John is now on the throne, and Robin has sworn fealty in order to further protect not just his family but those of the lords and barons who look up to him and, by extension, the villagers they protect. There is a truce. An uneasy one, to be sure, but a truce...
14307) Doomed Queen Anne
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.
14308) A darkly beating heart
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
No one knows what to do with Reiko. She is full of hatred. All she can think about is how to best hurt herself and the people closest to her. After a failed suicide attempt, Reiko's parents send her from their Seattle home to spend the summer with family in Japan to learn to control her emotions. But while visiting Kuramagi, a historic village preserved to reflect the nineteenth-century Edo period, Reiko finds herself slipping back in time into the...
Author
Series
Suzanna Snow mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1905, Suzanna is in training to be a well-mannered hostess at a Loch Harbor, New Brunswick, hotel, but her dream of being a detective gets a boost when a seven-year-old guest goes missing and Suzanna's uncle, a famous detective, comes to solve the case.
14310) River runs deep
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Elias is sent to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to fight a case of consumption--and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad.
Author
Series
Squire's Tale series volume 8
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Having grown up in an isolated forest, Beaufils sets off for Camelot to find his father and winds up undertaking quests with Sirs Gawain and Galahad, visiting various hermits, and traveling to the fairy world.
14312) Lizard's tale
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's Singapore in 1940, war is just around the corner, but twelve-year-old Lizard doesn't know that. He lives in Chinatown above a tailor's shop, surviving on his wits and hustling for odd jobs. When he steals a small teak box containing a Japanese code book from a Raffles Hotel suite, he finds himself in a dangerous world of wartime espionage. Lizard doesn't know who to trust. How is the mysterious book inside the box connected to his friend Lili,...
14313) The wind rises
Author
Series
Alma volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1786. Isolated from the rest of the world, thirteen-year-old Alma lives with her family in a lush African valley. She spends her days exploring their blissful homeland. But everything changes when her little brother finds a secret way out of the valley. Alma sets out to find him, but she soon must face terrible dangers in a continent ravaged by the slave trade. The journey to bring her brother home becomes a harrowing adventure to save herself,...
14314) A prayer for vengeance
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato's monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and scholars, autistic temple ward Milo wants nothing more than to be accepted into their ranks. When his prayers admiring her heroic sacrifice accidentally free Gia from stone, she wakes with a fury to kill the man Milo owes his life to, Primo Sanct...
14315) The spellbinders
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"1299 AD. In the shadow of Canterbury Cathedral's spires, a fateful encounter brings together Edward, teenage heir to the English throne, and a darkly handsome soldier from Gascony, Piers Gaveston. Youthful infatuation gives way to a bond more powerful than any attempt at keeping them apart. Edward and Piers enter a pact of sworn brotherhood. A decade later, Edward's spirited new queen, Isabella of France, quickly becomes smitten as much with her...
14316) The Italian wife
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Russian Concubine returns with a stunning new novel set in Mussolini's Italy. Isabella Berotti is an architect, helping to create showpieces that will reflect the glory of her country's Fascist leaders. She is not a deeply political sort, but designing these buildings of grandiose beauty helps her forget about the pain she's felt since her husband was murdered years ago. One of her greatest accomplishments...
14317) Seneca Falls inheritance
Author
Series
Seneca Falls historical mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
Berkeley Prime Crime edition.
Language
English
14318) Mustard seed
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth's beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than friendship. Three years after the Civil War, Lisbeth and Mattie are tending their homes and families while Jordan, an aspiring suffragette, teaches at an integrated school. When Lisbeth discovers that her father is dying, she's summoned back to the Virginia...
14319) Rebel spirits
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lorelei is not happy when her family moves into an old bed-and-breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania--and that is before she meets the Civil War ghost, Nathaniel, who needs her help, and discovers that some of the hotel staff are not what they seem to be.
14320) Love by the morning star
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for one another when they are sent to the grand English country estate of Starkers on the brink of World War II, Hannah, a distant relative hoping to be welcomed by the family, and Anna, sent to spy for the Nazis, both unexpectedly fall in love.
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