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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Lilith, a slave on a Jamaican sugar plantation in the late eighteenth century, holds a dark power that makes her the target of a slave revolt, placing Lilith in danger as she is forced to push the limits of slavery and resolve.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives of the eccentric residents of Dogtown on Cape Ann in Massachusetts--home to widows, orphans, prostitutes, scoundrels, free Africans, and other characters--as the community begins its descent into oblivion in the early 1800s.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Eloise, a Harvard graduate student researching spies of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, begins a romance of her own as she uncovers the story of Lady Charlotte Landsdowne, a determined young woman who is not about to let go of her dreams of romance with Robert, Duke of Dovedale, even if it means becoming caught up in a world of espionage.
6) Susannah
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, fourteen-year-old Susannah is taken by her father to live in a Shaker community in Ohio, but she does not find the same sense of peace there that he does.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Emma Cunningham, a refined widow who manages the New York home and servants of Dr. Harvey Burdell in 1857, must place her trust in defense attorney Henry Clinton to save her from the gallows when she is accused of murdering her employer.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Henry Oades and his family move to New Zealand in the late 1800s, where he has accepted a job, but when his wife Margaret and the children are kidnapped during a Maori uprising and presumed dead, Henry moves back to California where he marries Nancy, a young widow, and the couple is just starting to settle down when Margaret and the children show up, and Henry, Nancy, and Margaret are all charged with bigamy.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Presents a variation on the story of the excavation of the city of Troy in the 1850s, about a German archaeologist who is obsessed with proving the existence of the heroes of the Iliad after uncovering the ancient ruins, and his wife, who is suspicious about her husband's actions.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In 1956, after the death of Stalin, a secret letter composed by Khrushchev is sent throughout the nation, promising change for the Soviet Union while Leo Demidov, working as a homicide detective, becomes a target of vengeance due to his past career as an MGB officer.
Author
Series
Bells of Lowell volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Lilly Armbruster is forced to work for the powerful mill owners who caused her family's financial ruin, but her feelings of revenge become clouded when she discovers that her former fiance Matthew Cheever is working for those whom she despises.
17) A thousand ships
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel which chronicles the events which started the Trojan War.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Moinette, a mixed-race child born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, gains an education by listening to the lessons given her young mistress, and when she is sold and separated from her beloved mother at the age of fourteen, she immediately begins to make plans to gain her freedom.
19) Lavinia
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus and Queen Amata, gets caught in the middle of her parent's conflicting wishes that she marry either Turnus, king of Rutuli, or Trojan stranger Aeneas, which follows an omen that dictates she will cause a war, and that her husband will die young.
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