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7141) Buffalo flats
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Language
English
Description
"The coming of age story of Rebecca Leavitt as she searches for her identity in the Northwest Territories of Canada"--
Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the Northwest Territories of Canada, where her father and brothers are now homesteading and establishing a new community with other Latter-Day Saints. Rebecca is old enough to get married, but what kind of man would she marry and who would have a girl like...
7142) Silk is for seduction
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Series
Dressmakers volume Book 1
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Brilliant and ambitious dressmaker Marcelline Noirot is London's rising star. And who better to benefit from her talent than the worst-dressed lady in the ton, the Duke of Clevedon's intended bride? Winning the future duchess' patronage means prestige and fortune for Marcelline and her sisters. To get to the lady, though, Marcelline must win over Clevedon, whose standards are as high as his morals are-- not. The prize seems well worth the risk--but...
7143) A tapestry of dead
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Series
Spirit hunter volume 3
Publisher
D.S. Quinton
Language
English
Description
"A search for truth. A secret pact. A deadly ability unleashed... Somewhere in New Orleans, Del is on her own. Blaming herself for the spirit attack that nearly killed her adopted family, she vows to keep them safe the only way she knows how, by staying away. But she soon learns that this isn't enough, her mentor is dying a strange, agonizing death. Close by, Billy Bash is dealing with his own illness. His search for The Red, which will kill the bad...
7144) Soldier boy
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Language
English
Description
Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based.
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Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books / Viking
Language
English
Description
"A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love ... Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home...
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Language
English
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Description
"A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris. In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister...
7147) Wingwalkers
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
"A former WWI ace pilot and his wingwalker wife barnstorm across Depression-era America, performing acts of aerial daring. "They were over Georgia somewhere, another nameless hamlet whose dusty streets lay flocked and trembling with the pink handbills they'd rained from the sky that morning, the ones that announced the coming of DELLA THE DARING DEVILETTE, who would DEFY THE HEAVENS, shining like a DAYTIME STAR, a WING-WALKING WONDER borne upon the...
7148) Al Capone does my shirts
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Series
Tales from Alcatraz volume Book 1
Language
English
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Description
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
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Series
Hangman's Daughter volume Book 2
Publisher
Mariner Books
Language
English
Description
1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer and servant is indoors the night a parish priest discovers he's been poisoned. As numbness creeps up his body, he summons the last of his strength to scratch a cryptic sign in the frost.
Following a trail of riddles, hangman Jakob Kuisl; his headstrong daughter Magdalena; and the town physician's son team up with the priest's aristocratic sister to investigate....
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Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
Chava, daughter of the royal tutor, grows up with Urbi, a princess in Alexandria's royal palace. When Urbi becomes Queen Cleopatra, Chava finds herself imprisoned and sold into slavery. Cast off and alone in Rome, Chava must choose between love and honor, between her own desires and God's will for her life.
7151) Black duck
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Language
English
Description
It is spring 1929, and Prohibition is in full swing. So when Ruben and Jeddy find a dead body washed up on the shore of their small coastal Rhode Island town, they are sure it has something to do with smuggling liquor. Soon the boys, along with Jeddy’s strongwilled sister, Marina, are drawn in, suspected by rival bootlegging gangs of taking something crucial off the dead man. Then Ruben meets the daring captain of the Black Duck, the most elusive...
7152) The new kingdom
Author
Series
Egyptian volume 7
Publisher
Zaffre
Language
English
Description
Cast out of Lahun, Hui, once the ruler-in-waiting of the great city, seeks vengeance for the death of his father, swearing his allegiance to the enemies of Egypt and learning the art of war to fight to become the master of a new kingdom.
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Series
(Diana).Clandestine affairs volume 3
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
The new footman doesn't seem to know his place... London's most renowned mapmaker is a woman...but nobody knows it. If anyone discovers that Rose Fleming is the power and talent behind the family business, the scandal could ruin them. Rose's secret is tested by the arrival of a handsome new footman who shows far too much interest in his new mistress. Rose battles an intense attraction to the enigmatic servant, but maintaining a proper distance isn't...
7154) The art of deception
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Series
Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery volume Book 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Language
English
Description
"In the west end of London, an apparently crazed individual is on the loose, breaking into art galleries and private homes to slash valuable paintings of women. Despite Scotland Yard's best efforts, the criminal remains at large and continues on his destructive path. When Joanna and the Watsons are called in to solve the mystery, they soon discover that although the canvases have been slashed, their backings remain pristine, with no cuts or scratches....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store in for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemsyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) and only Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...
7156) The girl in the castle
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Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Hannah experiences danger in the past and present, as college intern Jordan tries to uncover the truth about Hannah and her memories"--
My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me NOW: Hannah is brought to Belman Psych, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions. Hannah knows the truth: she must return to the past and save her sister. Could Jordan, the abnormal psych student who seems to truly care, be the...
7157) Bird
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
Miranda, a small, delicate girl easily carried off by the wind, lands at Bourne Manor on the coast of Lake Champlain and is raised by the dour Wysteria Barrows, but she begins to believe rumors that the Manor is cursed and, aided by a new friend and kites secreted in an attic, seeks to escape.
7158) Brave like my brother
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Language
English
Description
When Charlie's older brother Joe is called up in 1942, Charlie learns about the tedium and dangers of war through Joe's letters--and his brother's bravery in dealing with a spy as D-Day approaches, finally gives Charlie the strength to stand up to the local bully.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Language
English
Description
' I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.' January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book...
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Stone Arch Books
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English
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While camping out on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, Hank and his best friend, James, hear loud explosions. Suddenly, Japanese planes fill the sky. Pearl Harbor is under attack! James wants to hide, but Hank wants to capture the battle on his trusty camera.
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