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11381) Road to perdition
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 1930 Illinois, an enforcer for the local mob boss goes on a spree of vengence with his son after his wife and younger child are murdered.
11382) The difficult saint
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Paris after a visit to her husband's family in Scotland, Catherine LeVendeur must use all her sleuthing skills, when her estranged sister, Agnes, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her new husband.
11383) The last protector
Author
Series
James Marwood and Cat Lovett volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Brother against brother. Father against son. Friends turned into enemies. No one in England wants a return to the bloody days of the Civil War. But Oliver Cromwell's son, Richard, has abandoned his exile and slipped back into England. The consequences could be catastrophic. James Marwood, a traitor's son turned government agent, is tasked with uncovering Cromwell's motives. But his assignment is complicated by his friend - the regicide's daughter,...
11384) Isaiah's legacy
Author
Series
Novel of prophets and kings volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"At eight years old, Shulle has known only life in a small village with her loving but peculiar father. When Uncle Shebna offers shelter in Jerusalem in exchange for Shulle's help tutoring King Manasseh, Judah's five-year-old co-regent who displays the same peculiarities as her father, she's eager to experience the royal court. But Shulle soon realizes the limits of her father's strict adherence to Yahweh's Law when Uncle Shebna teaches her of the...
11385) A perfect silhouette
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
1850. Mellicent "Mellie" Blanchard takes a job at a mill in Manchester, New Hampshire, to help support her family. In search of additional earning opportunities, she approaches a daguerreotype shop owner with the proposal that he hire her to make paper cuttings or silhouette portraits for those who can't afford an expensive daguerreotype. When a particularly charming customer asks to escort her home, the seeds of romance begin to blossom. All the...
11386) The silver flame
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
""When Rogue Bishop rescues Mike McLean in the Arizona desert, Mike tells him of a cache of gold coins in an old ghost town. What they find in the old mining town instead was an over-the-border horse stealing operation and bandits who are not about to let their two uninvited guests get away alive"-Provided by publisher"--
11387) Murder in the Oval Library
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"With the Confederate Army firing on Fort Sumter, the Civil War has begun -- and an invasion of Washington, D.C., from Secessionist Virginia seems imminent. As the population evacuates, the President is in desperate need of men to defend the capital. Lincoln's trusted aide, Adam Speed Quinn, and Quinn's old friend from the Bloody Kansas conflict, Senator Jim Lane, hastily assemble a motley crew of just over a hundred men and garrison them in the East...
11388) Code name Bananas
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
"1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY. Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla. But with German bombs raining over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside, they uncover a top-secret Nazi plot..."--Page [2] of cover....
11391) The vanishing at Loxby Manor
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Disappearances, strange activities in the night, and secret organizations abound in this mysterious Regency romance. Haunted by the assault she's kept hidden over the past four years, Charity Halliwell finally has a chance to return home to the quaint village she left more than five years before and the happy life she wants so badly to reclaim. All she needs is good conversation with her old friend and an opportunity to find a governess position,...
Author
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Journey into an idyllic, heartwarming, and fanciful story in The Anne Collection, with Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery. The Anne of Green Gables series is the tale of Anne Shirley, a young girl orphaned and sent to live with a family who initially wanted to adopt a boy. Anne is kindhearted and charming, and wins over everyone she meets throughout her adventures in this collection"--
"The first novel introduces Anne Shirley...
11393) Love in the library
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren't human -- that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast -- elderly people, children, babies -- now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn't know...
11394) Old Abe
Author
Publisher
Findaway World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As Lincoln's journey unfolds, Old Abe chronicles the final five, tumultuous years of his life until his eventual assassination at the height of power. Full of epic scenes from American history, such as the Gettysburg Address and the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, it probes the character and spirit of America. Old Abe portrays Lincoln not only as a flesh-and-blood man, but a hero who embodies his country's finest ideals, the hero who sets...
11395) The mountains sing
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Tran Dieu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Ha Noi, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore not just her beloved country but also her family apart."--
11397) Queenie: godmother of Harlem
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Megascope
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A racketeer and a bootlegger, Saint-Clair dedicated her wealth...
Author
Publisher
Campfire, an imprint of Kalyani Navyug Media Pvt. Ltd
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
GN 750L
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Austen's tale of Lizzy Bennet and Mr. Darcy, both of whom learn to see past their first impressions of the other. Includes biographical and historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by tragedies and conflicting moral codes. A terrible tragedy has...
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