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60182) Crack in the sky
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English
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Mountain man Titus Bass's vow to live in freedom takes him into encounters with Comanche, Apache, and Arapaho warriors, through the heat of the southwestern desert and the cold of the northern plains, as he helps a family stand against a Mexican army officer, chases horse thieves across the Yellowstone, and stands with a frontier town against the Comanche.
60183) Dawnlands: a novel
Author
Series
Fairmile novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands,...
60184) The Red Romance Book
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
First published in the early 20th century, The Red Romance Book is comprised of twenty-nine works of short fiction. With tales of medieval chivalry, knights, and popular protagonists such as Don Quixote, Guy of Warwick, and Charlemagne, this collection depicts medieval tales previously presented through word of mouth, poetry, and their native language. With stories that sometimes relate to each other, this collection allows readers to become submerged...
60185) Every time we say goodbye
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play ... has opened in the West End to rapturous applause from the audience. The reviewers, however, are not as impressed as the playgoers, and their savage notices not only shut down the play but ruin Lowry's last chance for a dramatic career. With her future in London not looking bright, at the suggestion of her friend Peggy Guggenheim, Vivien takes a job as a script...
60186) Lady Mareska
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Series
The rose and the ring volume 6
Publisher
Redemptive Rose Fiction
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
60187) Lady Theresa
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Series
The rose and the ring volume 7
Publisher
Independently Published
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
What are the consequences when a peasant girl falls in love with the heir to the castle on the hill and he reciprocates your affection? If you are Tessa's father, living in fear of retaliation from the wealthy Branden family, you bundle that presumptuous daughter off to St. Anne's convent.
60188) Deathless Divide
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Dread nation volume 2
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English
Description
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America.
After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother.
But nothing is easy when you’re a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road
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Magical history tour volume 7
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Modern day kids Annie and Nico go on a magical history tour to find out how modern-day India became the way it is. Much of which is due to one man who practiced peaceful resistance... Gandhi. This man, a tireless defender against oppression, fought all his life for independence from the British colonists who ruled India. He practiced non-violent demonstrations and went on hunger strikes to help bring attention to his cause"--
60190) Colonia
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, an ex-Nazi cult from which no one has ever escaped."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Are there more unlikely meetings than these? Marilyn Monroe and Frank Lloyd Wright; T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx; Madonna and Martha Graham; Michael Jackson and Nancy Reagan. Brown tells the stories of 101 such bizarre encounters in this witty, original exploration.
60192) Call the midwife: Season 1
Series
Call the midwife volume season 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
60193) Out of the Easy
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English
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Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
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English
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The page-turning, heart-wrenching true story of one young woman willing to risk her safety and even her life for a chance at freedom in the largest slave escape attempt in American history.
In 1848, thirteen-year-old Emily Edmonson, five of her siblings, and seventy other enslaved people boarded the Pearl under cover of night in Washington, D.C., hoping to sail north to freedom. Within a day, the schooner was captured, and...
60195) Safe houses: a novel
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English
Description
"In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along with her husband, and her daughter begins to chase down these startling secrets from her past. West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and...
60196) Mac saves the world
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English
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Summoned by the Queen of England to save the world once again, trusty kid spy Mac B. navigates secret tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall to retrieve cheat codes from an adversarial scientist only to find himself trapped in East Germany.
60197) The 18 penny goose
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Series
Publisher
Harper Trophy
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Letty attempts to save her pet goose from marauding British soldiers in New Jersey during the Revolutionary War.
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Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A poignant bilingual YA graphic memoir about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who crosses the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey is filled with both heartbreak and hope. Will America be the country of dreams like they imagined? Or will...
60199) The Daybreakers
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The Sacketts volume 6
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English
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Tyrel Sackett was born into trouble but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace. Orrin brought law and order from Santa Fe to Montana, and his brother Tye backed him up every step of the...
60200) The flag maker
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
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