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An overview of the intellectual forces that precipitated modernism, when a new "world view...gave rise to speed, industry, [and] world…
markets." Surveys key thinkers in academia, science, and the arts, describing their role in helping to usher in the modern era between 1870 and 1914. 1997.
Covers the European years of the Lindberghs, a period of happiness clouded by accusations of pro-Nazism against Col. Lindbergh. Records…
visits with the Bullitts, Kennedys, Lady Astor, George Bernard Shaw, and Gertrude Stein. Sequel to "Locked rooms and open doors" (RC16036). Prequel to "War within and without."
A wide-ranging account of the development of North American archaeology, with particular emphasis on early man, the Southwest, the American…
Indian, and the mound builders. 1971. Uniform title: Der erste Amerikaner.
In the pre-dawn hours of August 24, AD 1305, in London's Smithfield Prison, the outlaw William Wallace, who is to…
be executed at dawn, is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear his last confession. Wallace's story leads us through his many lives - as an outlaw and a fugitive, a hero and a patriot, a rebel and a kingmaker. Followed by "The renegade: a tale of Robert the Bruce". 2011, c2010.
Lewis finds an old coin that he hopes will protect him against bullies. He decides to test the coin's magic…
powers, but he is not prepared for the astonishing and sinister events that follow. Sequel to "The House with a Clock in Its Walls". Grades 5-8. 1993.
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity which extended far beyond its European epicentre,…
it broke the century of relative peace and prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era and unleashed the demons of the twentieth century - pestilence, military destruction and mass death - and also the ideas which continue to shape our world today - modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, and radical ideas about economics and society. Includes violence. 1998.
Mild-mannered Harry Caldecote, a retired librarian, is determined to protect his time and privacy, but his sense of responsibility for…
an assortment of extended family members and friends leads to a life of adventure. Some strong language. 1990.
Returning home after 18 months at sea, Flag Captain Richard Bolitho finds himself at the centre of the Great Mutiny.…
Set in 1795 as France continues to battle for supremacy of the seas. Sequel to "Enemy in sight!" (DC05590). Followed by "Signal -- close action!" (DC32994). 1971. (Richard Bolitho novels ; 13)
When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out in the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse…
resolves to survive until her baby is born, and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others. Bestseller. 2016.
One autumn day, the phones in Coldwater, Michigan, begin ringing. The people calling are all departed loved ones. They say…
they are calling from heaven. On that same day, Sully Harding is released from prison for a crime he may not have committed. During his incarceration, his wife passed away. He returns to Coldwater a brokenhearted man, hoping to quietly rebuild his life with his young son. Instead, he finds his hometown gripped by miracle fever. As the mysterious phone calls increase, outsiders flock from around the world in hopes of sharing the blessing. When his son begins to carry a toy phone awaiting a call from his mother, Sully has had enough. He sets out to prove that the Coldwater phenomenon is a hoax. But is it? Or could this be the world's greatest miracle? 2013.
After her boss is caught in a political scandal, fledgling Washington lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left broke, unemployed, and…
homeless. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help turn Birdsong - the fading Victorian mansion he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia - into a real estate cash cow. But Birdsong turns out to be a mouldering Pepto-bismol-pink dump with duct-taped windows, a driveway full of junk, and a grumpy distant relation who's claiming squatter's rights. Stuck in a tiny town where everyone seems to know her business, Dempsey grits her teeth and rolls up her sleeves, and begins her journey back to the last place she ever expected: home. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2009.
In deep retirement in the English country-side, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more…
concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case -- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot -- beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth? 2004.
Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee arrests the poacher he finds standing over a dying police officer. But when Jim's mentor,…
retired cop Joe Leaphorn, begins looking for a missing scientist last seen in that same area that same day, the case takes on new dimensions. Some strong language. Bestseller. 1998.
Fu Manchu and his beautiful, ruthless daughter battle Dr. Petrie for control of a renegade scientist and the secret of…
the Midnight Sun. Set in Egypt during World War I. c1987.
An incomplete, final installment of the Aubrey/Maturin seafaring adventure series features three printed chapters and a facsimile of the manuscript,…
which includes details about Jack Aubrey's post-promotion mission to the South Africa station and a duel between Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer. Some strong language. 2005.
Reef is an embittered young offender, hardly able to contain his anger at the world over the death of his…
grandmother, the only person who had shown him any love. Seventeen-year-old Leeza is mourning the death of her older sister. A stone hurled in rage shatters both their lives and throws them together in the most unexpected way - and offers them a chance at healing. Followed by "The fifth rule" (DC41432). For junior and senior high readers. Descriptions of violence, explicit strong language. 2003.
As a thirteen-year-old Roman boy living in Judaea returns home at night after having done an errand for his mother,…
he sees a sight he never forgets -- a man and his pregnant wife are turned away from an inn, and are preparing to spend the night in a stable. Grades 3-6. 1994.