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After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches…
an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft. Grades 4-7. 2012.
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help…
when her investigation into the disappearance of a Crimean War widow grows cold. Grades 3-6. 2011.
Traces the experiences of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house, from Nealie, a hired girl…
torn between two suitors; to motherless Pearl, whose grieving father sabotages her happiness; to proud Susan, who resolves to protect the house's secrets and legacy. 2011.
Scotland, 1536. Dugald Kerr declares that any man who can best his granddaughter Maggie in riding, running, and fighting can…
marry her and inherit his lands. King James V learns of the challenge and sends his cousin Fingal to compete. Sequel to "The border lord and the lady". Followed by "Bond of passion". Includes strong language and sex. 2011.
When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in…
the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process. Grades 5-8. 2011.
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something…
is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right. Junior High. 2011.
James presents a dramatic slave narrative set on a 19th-century Jamaican sugar plantation. Ever since she was a small child,…
Lilith has been closely watched by a contingent of fellow slaves - calling themselves the Night Women - who have long planned a revolt. Though she does not yet know it, Lilith is the key to their carefully laid plans. 2009.
John Madison travels to London to purchase at auction a rare 17th century Italian book of fairy tales for an…
anonymous client. Madison is warned about the book's malevolent history. Before he can deliver it to the buyer, he is robbed by a mysterious man claiming to be the book's author. When his client disappears and the book's provenance is questioned, Madison must immerse himself in the world of European aristocracy and rare book collectors. Sequel to "The witch of Babylon"; followed by "The Angel of Eden". 2015.
At the International Classical Guitar Competition in Montreal, top-flight musicians fly in from all over the world to compete in…
a gruelling week. A career can be made or lost here, and the slightest mishap - a lapse of memory, a shaking right hand, a broken fingernail - can ruin years of preparation. More than a decade ago Toby made the finals in a similar competition but suffered a breakdown and is only now venturing back into the fray. Middle-aged Lucy is tired of playing bar mitzvahs and weddings and is determined to perform the recital of her life. Trace is a kayaking teenager from the West Coast who seems careless in her talent. 2013.
On a train bound for Nalgitas, New Mexico, hookhouse proprietor Addie French encounters Emma Roby, a prim and proper lady…
seeking a new life with a man she's never met. But when they reach Nalgitas, all that awaits the bride-to-be is a "Dear Emma" note left with the stationmaster. Alone and forlorn, Emma seeks lodging at Addie's Chili Queen, a bordello she assumes is a boarding house. At first, the residents enjoy the delicious irony of Emma's naiveté. And yet as the yarn unravels, it's unclear who will have the last laugh. 2009.
Determined to honour an old promise, an undercover investigator struggles to shield a childhood friend from danger while resisting the…
pristine allure of the woman she's clearly become. But he may have underestimated the distraction of having such a fair maiden so near, and the tenacity of a ruthless villain. Sequel to "A Stone Creek Christmas", followed by "At home in Stone Creek". 2010.
Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage, is secretly commissioned to discover the truth behind the death of an obscure…
rabbi in the Roman backwater of first-century Palestine while also being engulfed in her own turmoil - facing the prospect of an arranged marriage to a Roman soldier, Alban, who seems to care for nothing but his own ambitions as leader of the Roman garrison near Galilee. Followed by "The hidden flame". 2010.
Stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa;…
from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea - while taking us to the heart of what is means to be human. 2009.
Cherny tells the saga of a rag-tag band of Americans - with limited resources and little hope for success -…
keeping West Berliners alive in the face of Soviet tyranny, winning the hearts and minds of former enemies, and giving the world a shining example of fundamental goodness. 2008.
In this course, Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden focuses on a Church both adapting to a world in…
flux and striving to exert its influence and power. Throughout modernity, the Church responded to - and weathered - a host of major world events: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, colonization of the New World, and the World Wars that in large part defined the twentieth century. 2007.
The Great Depression leaves the USA and CSA vulnerable. Though victors in the War of Secession, the CSA still reels…
from losing the Great War. Powerful and bloated by prosperity, the USA ignores ominous events nearby. Sequel to "Blood & iron", followed by "The victorious opposition". 2008.
Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, disguised as a beautiful woman, finds clues in floral bouquets as she searches for the missing Doctor…
Watson, a companion of her famous older brother, Sherlock. Grades 3-6. 2008.
Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness.…
Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health care system, and social stigmas. But she would not be defeated. With a strength and force of will that most can only imagine, Saks reclaimed her life and went on to achieve great success. 2007.