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7121) Brite and fair
Author
Publisher
Noone House
Pub. Date
1968
Description
The antics and practical pranks of a twelve-year-old boy and two friends growing up in New Hampshire, one-hundred years ago. Written in diary form.
7122) The curator's daughter
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and-decades later-a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma. 1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race. But when she is reassigned to work as a museum curator in Nuremberg, then forced to marry...
Author
Series
A Charlotte and Thomas Pit novel volume Book 21
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001
Description
In the wake of a successful but unlikely sentencing of a distinguished soldier and murder suspect, Bow Street Station Supertendent Thomas Pitt is removed from office and forced to work undercover in the dangerous East End Special Branch.
7125) Twice loved
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Christmas 1945. A position in a used toy shop is an answer to a prayer for Bev Winters, who finds herself widowed with a young daughter after World War II. But when her employer shows her surprising kindness, she is unsure how to react. After his wife's death, Dan Fisher dutifully maintains his used toy shop and closes his heart to ever loving another woman. Then Bev Winters enters his life, and he is drawn to help her and her daughter. Will this...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Three generations of Swagger family members, Charles, Earl and Bob Lee, tell their stories in three interconnected novellas that describe hunting for a notorious gangster in Chicago, uncovering municipal corruption in Maryland, and returning from the Vietnam War.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Three extraordinary people use their unusual powers to protect the fledgling state of Liberia.
Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from...
7129) Beyond the bright sea
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Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn't until the night a mysterious fire...
7130) Druid hill
Author
Series
Veil of time trilogy volume Book 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019
Description
"In this sequel to Veil Of Time, a seizure-free Maggie has come to accept that her visits to the 8th century world of Prince Fergus have come to an end. More than five years have elapsed, her son is now studying at Oxford, and she has finally entered into a new marriage. Everything feels settled in her world. But while she and her new husband are driving past the ancient village of Scone in Perthshire, she has a sudden flashback. During a late-night...
7131) No man's land: a novel
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Inspired by the real-life experiences of his grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, during World War I, Simon Tolkien delivers a perfectly rendered novel rife with class tension, period detail, and stirring action, ranging from the sharply divided society of northern England to the trenches of the Somme. Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune. His impoverished childhood in turn-of-the-century London comes to a sudden and tragic end when his mother is killed...
7132) Sea of memories
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"When Kendra first visits her ailing grandmother, Ella has only one request: that she write her story down, before she forgets...In 1937, seventeen-year-old Ella's life changes forever when she is sent to spend the summer on the beautiful and windswept Ile de Re and meets the charismatic, creative Christophe. They spend the summer together, exploring the island's sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters, and, for the first time in her life, Ella feels...
7133) The autumn of the ace
Author
Series
Daniel Pitt trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Daniel Pitt was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the conflicts he faces are closer to home. Daniel's marriage has fractured beyond repair and Daniel's relationship with his son, Bertie, has been a failure since Bertie was a small boy. But after his brother Archie's death, Daniel is keen for new perspectives. He first travels to Peshawar to bury Archie in the place he loved best, and then...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Haunted by the horrors she witnessed in France during the enemy invasion of 1914, Lady Elspeth Douglas, a titled young Englishwoman, is transformed by her experience and leaves her sheltered life behind to become a nurse and return to the battlefields of France to do her part.
7135) Spineless
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"When his asthma lands him at a health resort in the wilds of Gilded Age South Florida, twelve-year-old Algie Emsworth is over the moon. The scientific treasure trove of unexplored swamps may launch his dream career as a naturalist. But even Algie is startled when he happens upon a brand-new species and her brood in the karst springs surrounding the resort. Algie quickly realizes he must keep his discovery a secret: a famous collector of exotic animals...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"The Mapmaker's Children is the story of Sarah Brown, the vibrant, talented daughter of abolitionist John Brown. Her conventional life trajectory is dynamically changed when she's told the shocking news that she can't bear children and stumbles into her father's work on the Underground Railroad. Realizing that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the movement's leading mapmakers. Since...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Bertie and Jeeves are back for another spot of what Jeeves likes to call 'quiescent espionage' ... This time Bertie is required to impersonate a priest and journey to Cambridge, where the Seventh Earl of Sidcup, aspiring fascist Roderick Spode, is wooing undergraduates to his gang of Brown Shorts. Bertie accepts his charge with equanimity, even when required to do some 'nightclimbing' (an undergrad frolic involving skipping to and fro atop the towers...
7138) Remember me
Author
Series
Ravenswood novel volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Can Lady Philippa Ware forgive the man who once shattered all her youthful dreams? Discover the passionate and heartwarming new novel on the redemptive power of love from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh. Philippa, elder daughter of the Earl of Stratton, grew up eagerly anticipating a glittering debut and a brilliant marriage. Then her brother caught their father out in a clandestine affair and denounced him publicly. The whole family...
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