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North and south (Oxford World's Classics)
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson. 2008
Transplanted from the "civilized" South of England, Margaret Hale enters a grim new world in industrial Milton-Northern. The cultural shock…
leaves her reeling, but for her growing attraction to mill owner John Thornton. Friendship with the daughter of a union leader awakens her activism. 1855Prized possessions
By Jessica Stirling, St. Martin`s Press. 2001
Widow Lizzie Conway strives to get her girls--Polly, Babs, and Rosie--out of the Glasgow slums and begins a flirtation with…
rent collector Bernard Peabody. However, the girls fall in love with wayward men. Polly's romance with Dominic Manone leads to questionable choices. Some violence and some strong language. 1998Wives at war
By Jessica Stirling, St. Martin`s Press. 2005
War affects the Conway sisters in different ways. While working at the Ministry of Labour, Babs meets an American photographer…
who may be more than he purports. Rosie's marriage is on the rocks. Polly becomes entangled in intrigues. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. 2003Daughter of Earth: a novel (G - Reference,information And Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.)
By Agnes Smedley. 1987
Marie Rogers grows up in rural America, torn between helping her family financially and furthering her own education. She eventually…
travels to San Francisco and then on to Asia, involved with the Socialist Party. Includes foreword by Alice Walker and afterword by Nancy Hoffman. Some violence and some strong language. 1929La tienda roja
By Anita Diamant. 2014
Diná, la única hija de Lía y Jacob en el libro de Génesis, emerge de la saga bíblica para contar…
su historia y la de las mujeres a su alrededor. Publicado originalmente en 1997. Algunas descripciones de violencia y de índole sexualThe cook, the crook, and the real estate tycoon: a novel of contemporary China
By Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Liu Zhenyun. 2015
Liu Yuejin, a worksite cook and a thief, has his pack with money stolen. While searching for it, he discovers…
another bag which contains a USB card detailing corruption of high officials and putting him in danger. Translated from the original 2007 Chinese edition. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2015Mirages of the mind (New Directions paperbook #1310)
By Matt Reeck, Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi, Aftab Ahmad, Mushtāq Aḥmad Yūsufī. 2015
Basharat Ali Farooqi's life is one of misadventure, even as he schemes for a better life. He relocates with his…
family to Pakistan during the Partition and tries to settle in, but he longs for the childhood home he remembers. Translated from the Urdu edition. Some strong language. 1990Two slave rebellions at sea: "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass and "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville
By George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick. 2000
Two short stories about slave mutinies on the high seas: Frederick Douglass's 1853 "The Heroic Slave" and Herman Melville's 1855…
"Benito Cereno." Includes excerpts from A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the 1817 memoir of Amasa Delano--the real-life captain in Melville's tale. Some violence. 2000Bring up the bodies: a novel (Wolf Hall Trilogy Ser. #2)
By Hilary Mantel. 2012
England, 1535. Katherine of Aragon is dying and rumors of Anne Boleyn's infidelity are flying around court. Thomas Cromwell is…
charged with deposing Anne so King Henry VIII can marry Jane Seymour. Sequel to Wolf Hall (DB 70074). Some violence and some descriptions of sex. Man Booker Prize. Bestseller. 2012Wolf Hall: a novel (Wolf Hall Trilogy Ser. #1)
By Hilary Mantel, Henry Holt and Co.. 2009
Thomas Cromwell, a closet Protestant and blacksmith's son who becomes advisor to Henry VIII of England, realizes that he can…
accumulate power and wealth by assisting the king in obtaining an annulment and simultaneously help commoners and his country by destroying the corrupt Catholic clergy. Booker Prize. Bestseller. 2009A saloonkeeper's daughter (The Longfellow Series of American Languages and Literatures)
By Drude Krog Janson, Gerald Thorson, Orm Øverland. 2002
An authentic story of life in Minneapolis in the late nineteenth century. That ring of authenticity comes clearly from the…
mind and craft of an artist at work. For the contemporary reader, the novel provides a glimpse of an immigrant society, a culture in exile, and the immigrants' responses to the social scene. It has been sadly neglected in the history of American literature, despite its unusually forward-looking portrayal of a self-reliant, career-minded woman and its importance within America's regional and urban literary traditions. Adult. UnratedBayou Bill's best stories
By James Alexander Thom, Bill Scifres. 2015
Readers of the Indianapolis Star have enjoyed Bill Scifres's column "Lines and Shots" for over thirty years. Bill is without…
a doubt the premier outdoor writer in Indiana. He is also a born storyteller. This collection gathers some of this best accounts of a lifetime of adventure in the out-of-doors. Some descriptions of sex, strong language and violenceMudbound: a novel
By Hillary Jordan. 2009
As a family who have moved from the city to a Mississippi cotton farm struggle, the husband's brother returns from…
World War II along with the eldest son of sharecroppers, now a hero. The unlikely friendship of these two men arouses passions in others and reveals how everyone becomes a player in tragedy, even as they strive for love and honorCitizens Creek: A Novel
By Lalita Tademy. 2014
Cow Tom, born into slavery in Alabama in 1810 and sold to a Creek Indian chief before his tenth birthday,…
possessed an extraordinary ability to master languages. As the new country developed westward, he became a key translator for his Creek master and was hired out to US military generals. His talent made him indispensable, but what would become of him and his family with the coming of the Civil War? UnratedThe invisible wall: a love story that broke barriers
By Harry Bernstein. 2008
In a small English town on the eve of WWI, Harry's family struggles to make ends meet. His father spends…
his low wages on drinking on gambling. His mother, devoted to her children survives on her dreams. His older sister does the unthinkable; she falls in love with a Christian. They are separated by an "invisible wall". When Harry discovers the affair, he must choose what he knows to be true in his heartAssegai (Courtney Family Adventures Ser.)
By Wilbur Smith, Wilbur A Smith, St. Martin`s Press. 2009
Leon Courtney, a big-game hunter and British army-reserve officer, spies for his country in pre-World War I Africa. While Courtney…
attempts to stop a German-incited Boer rebellion, he monitors Graf Otto von Meerbach and falls for Meerbach's mistress. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2009Bitter sweets
By Roopa Farooki, St. Martin`s Press. 2007
Bengali shopkeeper Nadim Rub dupes Ricky-Rashid Karim into marrying his lazy, illiterate thirteen-year-old daughter, Henna, beginning a series of deceptions…
that plague succeeding generations. Ricky and Henna's daughter Shona eventually confronts her own lies to save her sons. Some descriptions of sex. Orange Award nominee. 2007The lost luggage porter: A Jim Stringer Mystery
By Andrew Martin. 2008
1906. Following the events in The Blackpool Highflyer (RC 67229), Jim Stringer is now an official railway detective for York…
Station. Stringer meets the unusual lost-luggage porter, who tells him about some platform thefts that need to be investigated. Stringer's undercover work reveals more than pickpockets. Some strong language. 2006The far pavilions
By M. M. Kaye, St. Martin`s Press. 1997
Nineteenth-century British India. Ashton Hilary Akbar Pelham-Martyn is raised as a Hindu at the foot of the Himalayas, the "Far…
Pavilions." As a child, he falls in love with princess Anjuli. Years later Ash, now an English officer, unexpectedly reunites with Juli, but she is betrothed to another. 1978The quest (Novels of Ancient Egypt Ser. #4)
By Wilbur Smith, St. Martin`s Press. 2007
Ancient Egypt. Eunuch warlock Taita, from Warlock (DB 53723), ventures into Africa at the bequest of pharaoh Nefer Seti to…
uncover the reasons the Nile has turned to blood and flesh-eating toads have emerged from its waters. Violence, some descriptions of sex, and some strong language. 2007