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Bride trilogy (Mary Jo Putney) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Cherished for her compelling stories and lush historical detail, bestselling author Mary Jo Putney brings the past to life in stories of love that arouse the mind and senses. Now, from the exotic temptations of the Orient to the ruthless grandeur of 19th century London, Putney embarks on a sweeping romantic adventure that begins with a daring act of courage.
After building a fortune amid the splendor and dangers of the China seas, American adventurer...
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When Liss and the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society get snowed in during a gathering for the Robert Burns Night Supper, old grudges and whiskey heat up the atmosphere. Then a tartan-covered body is discovered in a storage room, and Liss helps her friends sort out the facts before more tempers--and lives--are lost.
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Ever since they first set foot in the new world alongside the Viking explorers, the Scots have left their mark. In this entertaining and informative book, historian Michael Fry shows how Americans of Scottish heritage helped shape this country, from its founding days to the present. They were courageous pioneers, history-changing revolutionaries, great Presidents, doughty fighters, inspiring writers, learned teachers, intrepid explorers, daring frontiersmen,...
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Brides of Culdee Creek volume 3
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English
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Infused with the same warmth and excitement of the two previous books in her popular Brides of Culdee Creek series, Kathleen Morgan's third book tells Evan MacKay and Claire Sutherland's story. Heartbroken at losing his first love to another man, Evan leaves Culdee Creek in hopes of forgetting her. When his searching heart brings him to his ancestral home of Scotland, he encounters a beautiful young woman who begins to fill the empty corners of his...
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"Driving on an icy road on a truly dark and stormy night, Liss swerves her car when something darts out in front of it. She braves the weather and discovers a Scottish terrier shivering in the snow. Relieved that the dog survived their run-in, Liss sets out in search of her owner, unaware that the Scottie is actually a tiny celebrity--or that she was dognapped"--Dust jacket flap.
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"When a series of 'accidents' strikes the Christmas tree farm where Liss and her husband are staying, she'll have to spring into action to find the killer who's been lurking among the pines---before she ends up in a pine box herself" -----Provided by publisher.
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Outlander novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it "a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]." Now the story continues in Written...
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The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, "as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway" (Chicago Tribune).
When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it."
Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great...
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American Girl history mysteries volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro, a Scottish settler and weaver's apprentice on the North Carolina frontier in 1775, must find out who is betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the Revolutionary War.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The seventh book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series.
“All you’ve come to expect from Gabaldon . . . adventure, history, romance, fantasy.”—The Arizona Republic
Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans...
“All you’ve come to expect from Gabaldon . . . adventure, history, romance, fantasy.”—The Arizona Republic
Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans...
11) Drums of autumn
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Outlander novels volume 4
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English
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Continues the story of Claire and Jamie Fraser, a twentieth-century woman and a Scottish Highlander who fell in love when Claire traveled back in time through a stone circle, following the couple to the American colonies, where their attempts to make a new life for themselves are complicated by the arrival of their daughter Brianna, who has news from the future.
12) The fiery cross
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Outlander novels volume 5
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English
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The Fiery Cross is the fifth book in a series written by Diana Gabaldon about Clare Fraser, who can travel through time by touching stones (think Stonehenge). The first time she time traveled, it was an accident. She traveled two-hundred years backward to the 1740s and met the love of her life, Jamie Frasier, a Scottish highlander. Their love story has developed through out each of the books as Gabaldon details the historical setting that surrounds...
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Outlander novels volume 9
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English
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Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry,...
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In "American on Purpose," Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark--as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer.
15) Gunns & Roses
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Annie's Attic mysteries volume 19
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DRG
Pub. Date
�2012
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English
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While looking for a basket in the attic of Grey Gables, the Victorian home she inherited from her grandmother, Annie discovers a Celtic sporran containing several ferrules, the silver fittings of a set of bagpipes. Annie knows her lineage hailed from Scotland, but neither of her grandparents had told her about the sporan or the ferrules. Annie takes her latest mystery to the Hook and Needle Club, the needlework group that has helped her many times...
16) Songcatcher
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Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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A musicologist, passed over for a promotion, goes to visit in Appalachia and finds a treasure trove of Scots-Irish songs in the traditions of the generous but fiercely independent mountain people.
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"The protagonist of this historical novel, which is set in the Shetland Islands and also New York City around 1840, is Christian Robertson, a crofter and son of a crofter (small, struggling tenant farmer). When Christian's brother frames him for the theft of a bag of coins, Christian must leave home and embark on a journey to return the coins and clear his name"-- Provided by publisher.
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