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A depression-era family story about the problems of building the Fort Peck Dam in Montana. The construction project provides employment…
for the Duff family, but the parents' farm will be flooded. The desperation of the times leads members of the Duff clan to conflicts, infidelity, and even murder. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language
Three generations of the Caravals are affected when, against the wishes of his family, Zacarias persists in prospecting for gold…
in northern Mexico in the 1870s. Witnessing a tragedy transforms Zacarias in unexpected ways with unplanned consequences
Beatrice Poole, an early nineteenth-century novelist, takes up the search for the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite following the suspicious death…
of her Uncle Reggie, who supposedly had the rings. She arrives at Monkcrest Abbey hoping for help from "mad monk" Leo Drake. As their mysterious search continues, they begin to fall in love. Descriptions of sex. 1998.
Nebraska, 1909. When Gib Whittaker reappears at the orphanage, all the boys are shocked and worried. An orphan has never…
returned before. Gib had been farmed out to a ranch where he rediscovered his love and skill with horses as well as neighbors from his past. Returning was hard on Gib. For grades 4-7
1874, Tatoosh Island, Washington. Fourteen-year-old Nathan MacAllister helps his father tend a lighthouse on Cape Flattery. During the day he…
fishes in the Pacific with a Makah Native American neighbor. Then a ship breaks up on the rocks, and the captain turns up dead. When suspicious activities occur along the shore, Nathan decides to investigate. For grades 6-9
In 1849 twelve-year-old Lucas Whitaker's entire family dies of consumption. The distraught boy hears about a folk cure for the…
illness, which involves removing the heart of a deceased victim, then burning the organ to produce smoke that has curative powers. Luke decides to test this macabre treatment. For grades 4-7
A scholar and a scribe with only words to leave to her son, Grazia writes a memoir for Danilo to…
explain his heritage and to reveal secrets of the heart. Grazia is from a wealthy Jewish family in Renaissance Italy, but she falls in love with a Christian nobleman. Her dilemma is whether to convert to marry her beau or remain loyal to family duty. Some descriptions of sex
In 1976, nine men from an African American town in Oklahoma assault a former convent, the refuge of four female…
outcasts. The multilayered stories of the women, men, and town culminate in this attack, intended to purge and protect the community. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. Bestseller
In The Spyglass Tree (DB 46274), Scooter graduated from college in the 1920s. Now he joins a famous African American…
jazz band. Traveling across the country, he perfects his talent. He decides to stay in Hollywood to write music, but moves to France before returning to his roots in Alabama. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex
1833 New Orleans. In a complex world where Creoles, Americans, French, and blacks live and love, a Creole's beautiful black…
mistress is murdered during Mardi Gras. Paris-educated Benjamin January, who is trying to adjust to being a free black man in an unforgiving world, feels obligated to find the murderer. Strong language, violence, and some descriptions of sex
Arthur, having won the battle against the Saxons, leads the southern British Kingdoms. But other problems exist. The Druid Merlin…
wants to restore the island to its old Gods, to which end he is pursuing a Cauldron, one of the Thirteen Treasures. Opposing Merlin are the Christians. To Merlin and the warrior Derfel, the quest for the Cauldron far outranks any battle. Sequel to "The winter king" (DC29101). Followed by "Excalibur" (DC29103). 1996. (Warlord chronicles ; 2)
In this sequel to Sound the Jubilee (DB 42885), Maddie Henry and her family travel inland from the Civil War…
sanctuary of Roanoke Island searching for a homestead. They adopt an orphaned little girl along the way, and later, learn of a sympathetic farmer willing to sell to them and to stand against the prejudiced former slave owners. For grades 6-9
In this sequel to White Lilacs (DB 45542), thirteen-year-old Emily Rose travels to Texas with her mother and two brothers…
to visit her great-grandmother Rose Lee. Emily Rose and her brothers are biracial. They are both curious and dismayed with some of the events that occur in their black family's hometown. Some violence. For grades 5-8
In the Oklahoma territory after the Civil War, Cherokee Zeke Proctor accidentally kills a white man. After Zeke is cleared…
of murder by an Indian tribunal, a white posse pursues him and his son-in-law into the hills, where the two withstand a bloody siege. Strong language and violence
As Marie Antoinette took her last breath as Queen of France in Paris, another formidable monarch—Antoinette's dearly beloved sister, Charlotte—was…
hundreds of miles away, in Naples, fighting desperately to secure her release from the revolutionaries who would take her life. Little did Charlotte know, however, that her sister's execution would change the course of history—and bring about the end of her own empire. "You are the queen. You are the queen that Antoinette wanted to be." Austria 1767 : Maria Carolina Charlotte—tenth daughter and one of sixteen children of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria—knows her position as a Habsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her cherished sister, Antoinette, whose companionship she values over all else. But not yet. The Habsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte's older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples and will soon take her place as queen. Before she can journey to her new home, however, tragedy strikes. After visiting the family crypt, Josepha contracts smallpox and dies. Shocked, Charlotte is forced to face an unthinkable new reality: she must now marry Ferdinand in her sister's stead. Bereft and alone, Charlotte finds that her life in Naples is more complicated than she could ever have imagined. Ferdinand is weak and feckless, and a disastrous wedding night plunges her into despair. Her husband's regent, Tanucci, a controlling and power-hungry man, has pushed the country to the brink of ruin. Overwhelmed, she asks her brother Leopold, now the Holy Roman Emperor, to send help—which he does in the form of John Acton, a handsome military man twenty years Charlotte's senior who is tasked with overseeing the Navy. Now, Charlotte must gather the strength to do what her mother did before her: take control of a country. In a time of political uprisings and royal executions and with the increasingly desperate crisis her favorite sister, Queen Marie Antoinette, is facing in France, how is a young monarch to keep hold of everything—and everyone—she loves? Find out in this sweeping, luxurious tale of family, court intrigue, and power
Heartthrob actor Angel DeMarco needs a heart transplant and is sent to a specialist in Seattle. Ironically, this is the…
hometown he fled seventeen years ago after impregnating his girlfriend Madelaine. Now Madelaine is a doctor, her rebellious daughter is curious about her father's identity, and Angel's brother--a priest--is a big part of their lives. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex
A fledgling vampire, David Talbot, persuades the two-thousand-year-old Pandora to record her life story. Her tale begins in Rome, 15…
B.C., where she was born and later fell in love with the still-mortal Marius, the man who changed her destiny. Some violence. Bestseller
In the 1870s, two young girls--one in Santo Domingo and one in Maine--both like chocolate ice. In Santo Domingo, farmers…
grow cocoa beans to make chocolate. In Maine, blocks of ice are cut from the frozen river and stored in ice houses. When summer arrives, the ice is shipped to Santo Domingo, where it is traded for cocoa, and both girls have their chocolate ice! For grades 2-4
Marven's family sends him to a lumber camp for the winter to avoid the 1918 influenza epidemic in Duluth. The…
small ten-year-old Jewish boy is given office duties, which include waking up lumberjacks who oversleep. That is how his unlikely friendship with Jean Louis, the largest, strongest man in the camp, begins. For grades 2-4
Shannon is excited about spending a week at her friend Rina's house, but she's a little nervous too. Rina seems…
to be able to do everything better than she can and her home is chaotic compared to Shannon's own. When things fall apart, Rina's grandmother is there to tell them a story from her past, early in the Second World War. The story is about a rift between her and her childhood friend, Mitsu, a rift that could never be healed because Mitsu and her family were taken away from the small town of Paldi and interned with other Japanese Canadians. Rina's grandmother, Jas, never saw Mitsu again. That is, not until Shannon and Rina find a handful of forgotten beads in the bottom of a cardboard box.