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Patience and Sarah
By Isabel Miller. 1969
Patience White is a woman of modest means, living under the grudging roof of her brother and his wife. Sarah…
Dowling has been raised to be her father's boy, as he had no sons, and she is used to the rough work of a Connecticut farm in the early 19th century. When Patience and Sarah meet, they are instantly drawn to one another. After many trials they leave Connecticut to buy a farm and begin a life together. This novel, told from alternating points of view, is filled with humor, warmth, and insights into human nature.The Ebony Swan
By Phyllis A. Whitney. 1992
Caesar: Let the Dice Fly (Masters of Rome #5)
By Colleen McCullough. 1997
In the long, fabled history of Rome, there was never one so beloved by so many--yet so feared and despised…
by lesser men whose power he eclipsed--than Gaius Julius Caesar. On the field of battle, he is invincible, and those who fight at his side would gladly give their lives for his glory. But even as Caesar sweeps across Gaul--brutally subduing the united tribes who defy the Republic--his enemies at home are orchestrating his downfall and disgrace. Vindictive schemers like Cato and Bibulus would tear Rome asunder just to destroy her greatest champion, using their wiles, position and false promises to seduce others into the fold: the spineless Cicero, the avaricious Brutus...even Pompey the Great, First Man in Rome and Caesar's former ally. But ill fortune can only come to the "Good Men" who underestimate Caesar. For rome is his destiny--a destiny that will impel him triumphantly on the banks of the Rubicon...and beyond, into legend.Green Dolphin Street
By Elizabeth Goudge. 1944
This book could be classified as a romance or a historical novel, but it soars beyond genre. The settings are…
vivid, the attention to detail is exquisite, and the characterizations are penetrating and memorable. Marguerite and Marianne, a pair of sisters, both love William Ozanne, whom they meet as children on the Isle of Guernsey. William settles in New Zealand and, after an absence of ten years, writes to the girls' father asking for Marianne's hand in marriage. He has always had a tendency to mix up the girls' names, and it is really Marguerite he loves; but it isproud, fierce Marianne who arrives at Wellington after an arduous voyage. This is a novel about survival - physical, emotional, and spiritual.Blacklist: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
By Sara Paretsky. 2003
Buddy is a stupid name for a girl
By Willo Davis Roberts. 2001
Buddy, whose real name is Amy Kate, has to suddenly move in with older relatives in Montana when her father…
mysteriously disappears on a trucking job. While her brother tries to find him, Buddy has to adjust to new family, a new school where people think her name is strange, and many family secrets. She tries to accept the changes in her life, solve the mysteries, and make a friend, as concerns of years past suddenly come into focus. Grades 3-6. 2001.The Mystery of the Cupboard
By Lynne Reid Banks. 1993
In the fourth book in Bank's acclaimed INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD saga, Omri and his family move to an old…
farmhouse, where he finds an ancient notebook that reveals a family secret-and the mysterious origins of his magical cupboard.Morning Girl
By Michael Dorris. 1992
Kit's Story Collection (The American Girls Collection)
By Valerie Tripp. 2001
This book contains: Meet Kit Kit Learns a Lesson Kit's Surprise Happy Birthday Kit! Kit Saves the Day Changes for…
Kit All of the books in this volume teach a different type of lesson while telling a fictional story based in a real time period. Also available from Bookshare: "Kit's Home Run."Fiddle Dee Death
By Caroline Cousins. 2003
Mystery amid the moonlight and the magnolias ... Okay, forget the magnolias. It's the end of December, after all, and…
frost silvers South Carolina's Low Country. But Pinckney Plantation is still open to visitors who want to see the pride of Indigo Island. The old house claims a long history--or so says the script the tour guides go by. What the script leaves out are the flickering lights and the sound of ghostly footsteps. And the dead body. The corpse is a new addition. Who is he? And what was he doing at Pinckney? And did he fall, or was he pushed? These are among the questions that puzzle the self-appointed detective trio, Lindsay and her cousins, Margaret Ann and Bonnie. As the old year slides into the new, the sleuths turn up old bones, old photos, and, in narrator Lindsey's case, an old flame. Hilarious Southern manners color the revelations about ruthless developers, secretive landowners, and family scandals as the cousins together Solve the mystery.River god (Egyptian novel ; #1)
By Wilbur A Smith. 1993
Taita the eunuch is slave to a noble's daughter in ancient Egypt. Taita narrates the dramatic events of which he…
was either witness or a participant as his mistress receives the dubious honour of betrothal and marriage to the pharaoh. Graphic depictions of lust, bloodletting, politics and honour in the pharaoh's Egypt. Followed by "The seventh scroll" (DC14374). 1993. (Egyptian novel ; 1)Political death: a Jemima Shore mystery
By Antonia Fraser. 1997
TV investigative journalist Jemima Shore is summoned to the dilapidated home of the eccentric Lady Imogen Swain, to hear what…
she knows about the 1964 disappearance of a man tried for selling British intelligence secrets. Lady Swain has a good memory and her diaries with all the details of a 30-year-old love affair with a prominent politician. 1997.Detective: a novel
By Arthur Hailey. 1997
Miami detective and former priest Malcolm Ainslie is called to hear the final confession of a serial killer awaiting execution.…
The prisoner admits to all the murders for which he's been convicted, except that of the City Commissioner and his daughter. Ainslie believes him and decides to re-open the case, despite opposition from the city. 1997.The zero hour
By Joseph Finder. 1996
A digitally encrypted, ominous telephone call is intercepted by the NSA's spy satellites, and FBI Special Agent Sarah Cahill, a…
counter terrorism expert, is urgently summoned to investigate an impending terrorist attack on lower Manhattan. 1996.Deep Purple
By Ted Allbeury. 1989
The mystery of Swordfish Reef
By Arthur William Upfield. 1939
Degree of Guilt (Christopher Paget #2)
By Richard North Patterson. 1992
A claim of attempted rape. A talepathology. These are the elements of Degree of Guilt, Richard North Patterson's stunning courtroom…
novel. Christopher Paget is a trial lawyer with a famous past: as a young investigator in Washington, he unearthed a scandal that brought ruin to a President--and an abrupt end to Paget's affair with Mary Carelli. Now, fifteen years later, they are estranged. Carelli is a well-known television journalist based in New York; Paget lives quietly in San Francisco, raising their teenage son and preserving what privacy he can. Until a charge of murder changes everything. The victim is America's most eminent novelist, Mark Ransom. The accused is Mary Carelli. Her defense is attempted rape. The man she chooses to defend her is Christopher Paget. Carelli does not deny that she killed Ransom, but a fateful question remains to be answered: Was it self-defense or was it murder? In preparation for a trial, Paget sets out to establish that Mark Ransom was the twisted man Carelli claims he was. With the help of an associate, Teresa Peralta, Paget uncovers compelling evidence that presents a complex and disturbing picture of Ransom as a sexual predator. But this evidence may not be admissible in court. And there are other unsettling surprises: a secret in Carelli's past that provides her with a powerful motive for murder; facts that suggest she has been lying; a woman prosecutor who firmly believes that Carelli is using the issue of rape to conceal murder; and an enigmatic judge who may very well have an agenda of her own. With the odds against Carelli's acquittal quickly rising, Christopher Paget is faced with a risky legal decision that leads to an explosive convergence of public trial and private conflict--a decision that threatens not only Mary Carelli's future, but his own, and their son's, as well. From first to last, Degree of Guilt holds us galvanized by its masterful storytelling, its complexity of motive and feeling, its vivid depiction of men and women under pressure, and its brilliant delineation of even the most subtle courtroom dynamics. It is an electrifying story of a search for legal and emotional truth. It is the ultimate courtroom drama.Ben-Hur
By Lew Wallace, Willis Lindquist. 1956
The Last Confederate (House of Winslow, #8)
By Gilbert Morris. 1990
At the conclusion of The Reluctant Bridegroom, the marriage of Sky and Rebekah Winslow prefaces a new chapter for another…
generation. What had seemed an impossibility is now coming to pass: God's transformation of the Winslows into a warm and loving family. Making their way back from Oregon City, they now settle and prosper on a plantation in Virginia. Several years after their return from the West, a young Northerner named Thad Novak makes his way to the Winslow plantation and is taken on as a hired hand. What caused him to specifically seek out the Winslows? Should this Northerner be trusted? And with young ladies in the home, what are his motives? While the nation totters on the brink of war, both Thad Novak and the Winslows face conscription into 'fighting for a cause they do not support, and directly against Winslow relatives from the North!Bull Run
By Paul Fleischman. 1993
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of…
the first battle of the Civil War. Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction