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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the threat of deportation looming over her father--in spite of his hard-won citizenship and disavowal of Communism--seventeen-year-old American-born Chinese Lily Hu pursues a relationship with her Caucasian classmate Kath. Includes author's note.
42) Sugar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Lightkeeper's Daughter - A storm brings an injured stranger and a dark secret to Addie Sullivan's California light house home. The man insists she is not who she thinks she is, but rather the chold long lost and feared dead by the wealthy Eaton family. Addie secures employment in the Eaton's palatial home, keeping her identity a secret. As dusty rooms and secret compartments give up their clues about her past, Addie finds faith and a forever...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later--and only a block away--Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that these crimes are connected to an even more sinister plot. Was Victoria really the assassin's target? Are those closest to the Crown hiding something? And who is the shadowy figure witnesses describe as having lifeless, coal-black eyes?...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Who is stalking Florence Nightingale and her nurses? Is it the legendary Beast of the Crimean, or someone closer to home? In 1855, Britain and France are fighting to keep the Russians from snatching the Crimean Peninsula from the Ottoman Empire, and Nightingale, a wealthy young society woman, has made it her mission to improve the wretched conditions in the British military hospitals in Turkey--despite fierce objections from the male doctors around...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anne Perry's "vastly entertaining" (The Star-Ledger) holiday novels are "as delicious as mince pie and plum pudding" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). A Christmas Hope is just as delectable--the gripping story of an unforgettable battle between goodness and evil in Victorian London--and a lonely woman's search for meaning in her life. Although she lacks for nothing, Claudine Burroughs dreads the holiday season for forcing her to face how empty her life...
Author
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1880s Fresno, California, thirteen-year-old Andi Carter faces a difficult decision when she witnesses a devastating incident involving one of the town's most prominent families, who then threaten her if she tells the truth during the trial.
Author
Series
Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek volume 2
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
49) Burma sahib
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing...
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 1
Language
English
Description
"From "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed...
51) City of betrayal
Author
Series
Counterfeit lady volume 7
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A year has passed since Elizabeth Bates ran her last con. Life has been simpler, although not nearly as exciting, but she has thrown herself into working to get the 19th Amendment ratified by thirty-six states to become the law of the land. Since every other Southern state has already rejected the amendment, it seems unlikely Tennessee will be an exception . . . but it's their only hope, so the suffragists descend on Tennessee for the final battle....
Author
Series
Ill-mannered ladies volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. Lady Augusta Colebrook, Gus, is determinedly unmarried, bored by society life, and tired of being dismissed at the age of forty-two. She and her twin sister, Julia, who is grieving her dead betrothed, need...
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