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141) Wide Sargasso Sea
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1982, c1966
Language
English
Description
Story of a young woman in the Caribbean whose family's past will be used against her by her cold-hearted and prideful husband, Rochester.
143) People of the moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When Cold Bringing Woman, the goddess of winter, appears on Young Ripple's mountain, she sends him on a perilous quest to destroy the hated Chacoans.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she's more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.
147) Weedflower
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona during World War II, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
148) The last bookaneer
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the 19th century draws to an end, two bookaneers are caught up in a colonial war on Samoa as they compete to steal Robert Louis Stevenson's last manuscript and make a fortune before a new international treaty ends the bookaneers' trade forever.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The Perfect One, the most beautiful and famous woman in the ancient world, rules with her husband Akhenaten over the world's most powerful and influential society, but their successes hide an epic power struggle that threatens the delicate balance of power and the future of Egypt.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In 1925, after witnessing the violent actions of some gangsters, twelve-year-old Emily accompanies her older sister on a trip to a luxurious hotel on the New Jersey shore but worries that the gangsters have come to the same hotel. Includes historical notes on the time period.
153) War and peace
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 96
Language
English
Description
An English translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 to 1814.
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When Kujiranami escapes from prison and goes on a rampage with a frightening new weapon, only Yahiko has the courage to face the giant. Fearing that this could be his ward's greatest, and last, battle, Kenshin must quickly come to his aid.
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