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"Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from...
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Bregdan chronicles volume 15
Physical Desc
498 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Another chapter in the lives of Carrie, Janie, Rose and Moses, Florence Robinson, and Felicia as they work to rebuild their lives in Virginia during the United States' Reconstruction.
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Bregdan chronicles volume 12
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522 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Carrie, steps into a new season of love in her life, but once again has to leave the plantation to fulfill her dream. Continues the sweeping historical saga that now encompasses the fourth year of American Reconstruction.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.
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"International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and...
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English
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Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war. The...
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HarperFlamingo
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
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English
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The family of a fierce evangelical Baptist missionary--Nathan Price, his wife, and his four daughters--begins to unravel after they embark on a 1959 mission to the Belgian Congo, where they find their lives transformed over the course of three decades
8) Tidelands
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The fairmile volume 1
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English
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"Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands --the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wisewomen, trapped in poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the...
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WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Cast out of society for her father's crimes, Abigail Brantley takes work tutoring Kansas ranchers to prepare them for their more refined mail-order brides, where she faces skeptical Mack Cleveland, who has reason to distrust the scheme.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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From unsolved murders and ghastly disasters to medicinal water and sports legends, Northwestern Pennsylvania has a rich and diverse history. Titusville native John Heisman shaped football into the recognizable sport that it is today, and his namesake is honored on the Heisman Trophy. Girard's Charlotte and Libbie Battles broke glass ceilings by becoming early female titans of business and banking in the region. Marx Toys in Erie County found success...
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
c2015, 2016.
Edition
Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 729, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
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English
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...
13) Where you belong
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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In the wake of a tragic shooting in Kosovo, a young American photojournalist discovers that her lover--a British journalist killed in the attack--was still married.
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2023.
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English
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In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
15) Titans
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"A sweeping new drama from the beloved, bestselling author of Roses. Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable characters emerge and find their fates irrevocably intertwined:...
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Scottish Highlander Jamie Fraser, made aware by his time-traveling wife Claire of the outcome of the impending American Revolution, and living under the shadow of a newspaper clipping from the future that reports the deaths of him and his family, faces a dilemma when the colonial governor of North Carolina asks him to secure the region for King and Crown.
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Elm Creek quilts volume 17
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
viii, 342 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Facing radical changes in their roles and outlooks when the men in their lives join the Union forces, the women of Elm Creek Valley's quilting bee begin an agonizing period of waiting that is shaped by their husbands' military duties and their respective circumstances.
19) Beloved: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
20) A single thread
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English
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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiance, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...