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2581) An American beauty
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"When a railroad baron falls for a uniform girl at a gambling parlor thirty years his junior, he moves her to New York posing as a well-heeled Southern widow where her shrewd investing instincts build her a fortune"--
1867, Richmond, Virginia. Arabella wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, yet she is set apart by her unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of...
2582) Blackwater spirits
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Nineteenth-century town librarian Glynis Tryon, a veteran of a number of political crusades, becomes involved in battling discrimination against the Seneca Iroquois by white settlers, but when one of her Iroquois friends is accused of murder, the fight becomes personal.
2583) Dark queen wary
Author
Series
Margaret Beaufort mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Description
""Uneasy lies the head which wears the crown." 1472. Edward IV reigns triumphant over England and his rivals, the Lancastrians. But he is uneasy, for one true claimant remains: the young Henry Tudor, son of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. Henry's continued existence worries Edward, so he hatches a plan to bring a cuckoo into the nest -- an imposter prince is presented to Margaret Beaufort as her son. Margaret is no fool and knows she must...
2584) The Vivaldi cipher
Author
Series
Vatican secret archive volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Description
During the election of a new Pope in the mid-18th century, famed violinist Antonio Vivaldi learns of a ring of art forgers who are replacing the Vatican's priceless treasures with expertly-painted fakes. Desperate, the composer hides a message in a special melody, hoping someone, someday, will take down the culprits.
2585) I, Coriander
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother, must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"This is a riotous romp taking the reader from the turbulent frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of Mrs China Iron, Martin Fierro's abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend, soon to become lover, a Scottish woman named Liz. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their...
2588) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, investigates a conspiracy when the Queen narrowly escapes a series of "accidents."
2590) Unbound
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Rozlyn Ó Conchúir is used to waiting--waiting for the king, her father, to relent and allow her to leave the solitude of her tower; waiting for the dreaded and mysterious beast of Connacht to at last be defeated; waiting for the arrival of the man destined to win her heart and break the terrible curse placed on her and her land. So when she meets Jamie--a charming and compelling suitor--she allows herself to hope that her days of solitude and patience...
2591) Deception
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes in her diary her efforts to discover who is counterfeiting the new English silver coin.
Author
Pub. Date
1999-2000
Edition
1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
Description
Presents three novels which use fictionalized journal entries and correspondence to follow the life of Josephine Bonaparte from her childhood in Martinique, through her first marriage, the birth of her children, her marriage to Napoleon, their rise to power, and their heartbreaking divorce due to her inability to produce an heir.
2593) The empty kingdom
Author
Series
Mark of Solomon volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Telemakos, the half-British, half-Aksumite grandson of King Arthur, is accused of treachery by Abreha, the ruler of Hinyar, and lacking any means to communicate his predicament to his family in far-away Aksum, tries to find a subtle and effective way to regain his freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Appears on list
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
2595) Operation typhoon shore
Author
Series
Guild of Specialists trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Description
In the spring of 1920, teenaged siblings Rebecca and Doug MacKenzie continue their adventures on their uncle's ship, sailing through a typhoon into the Celebes Sea in pursuit of a missing "gyrolabe" which may be connected to the disappearance of their parents.
2596) Sea change
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The last Eve saw of her mother was a wave from the basket of a rising balloon. A wilful, lonely orphan in the house of her erratic artist guardian, Eve struggles to retain the image of her missing mother and the father she never knew. In a London beset by pageantry, incipient riot and the fear of Napoleonic invasion, Eve must grow into a young woman with no one to guide her through its perils. Far away, in a Norfolk fishing village, the Rev Snead...
2598) Dreaming the bull
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, also referred to as Breaca, leads in her pursuit of the Roman invaders in first-century Celtic England while Ban, Breaca's half brother, has thrown his loyalty to the service of Rome against her.
Author
Series
Diviners volume 3
Description
The Diviners face ghosts that are haunting an asylum and wreaking havoc all over New York City, forgotten ones with dangerous ties to the King of Crows.
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