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Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 1527, portraitist Hans Holbein returns to England to complete a portrait commissioned by Sir Thomas More, and over the course of the next six years befriends the More family and paints two portraits of the group, one of which reveals several hidden mysteries.
123) Mischief
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Indepent, spirited Imogen Waterstone, an expert on ancient Zamar, invites the infamous Earl of Colchester Matthais Marshall, legendary explorer of Zamar to help her lay the perfect trap. Certain that her enemy will risk everything to acquire the treasure map she claims to have inherited, Imogen faces danger from her foe, and from her own emotions as she is drawn to the dark, seductive earl.
124) The skystone
Author
Series
Camulod chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
125) Bowery girl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Two orphaned teenage girls in New York's tenements in 1883 realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly-built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
128) A tale of two cities
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the adventures of a young Englishman who gives his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.
130) Away: a novel
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
Language
English
Description
In the mid-19th century, an Irish family survives the wracking journey and settles on scruffy farmland in the Canadian north woods. One day Mary disappears, leaving behind seven-year-old Liam and an infant daughter, Eileen.
Author
Series
Emperor volume 2
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Julius Caesar's attempts to dominate the Mediterranean and Gaius Brutus's rise to power.
136) With all despatch
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed to the book trade by Login Trade
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
138) Early warning
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Family patriarch Walter Langdon has died, and his children have fanned out across the country. The narrative moves year by year from 1953 to 1986, encompassing Cold War blinkeredness, Sixties rebellion, and escalating wealth into the Eighties.
139) The notebook
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Noah Calhoun, recently returned from World War II in 1946, buys an old plantation home in rural North Carolina, where he contents himself with memories of his first love, a girl he met fourteen years earlier, but then she unexpectedly arrives at his door.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
After twenty years as a gentleman, Montmorency is glad to be free of Scarper, his wretched alter-ego, but when a young friend is caught in the middle of a murderous political plot, Montmorency may have no choice but to call upon Scarper for help.
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