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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a military attache at the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937, gathers snippets of information while living the life of an aristocrat in Poland and conducting an affair with a lawyer for the League of Nations, but he finds himself scrambling to save the life of one of his spies and alert authorities to what is going on when it becomes clear the Nazis are preparing to mount a tank attack
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
A story of the interlocked lives of masters and slaves before and after the Civil War, based on the recollections of Maggie, a light-skinned slave, whose love affair with Gatewood Plantation heir Duncan Gatewood resulted in much heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In ninth-century England, Uhtred of Bebbanburg is ordered by King Alfred to secure the borders of London and resist the attacks of the Norse Viking brothers Sigefrid and Erik Thurgilson, but his uncertain loyalties toward the crown, and his daughter's recent marriage, make it difficult for him to carry out the
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and polit
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the
10) Counterattack
Author
Series
Corps volume 3
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
A story of the Marines and their loves and loyalties, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the beaches of Guadalcanal.
11) Battleground
Author
Series
Corps volume 4
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Marine Corps soldiers fight in the Pacific in the bloody months spanning the battles of Midway and Guadalcanal.
12) Leaving point
Author
Publisher
Farrer, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Home from boarding school to spend Christmas with their missionary parents, fourteen-year-old Ruth and her brothers find that the Communist Revolution has brought about many changes and new restrictions that complicate Ruth's growing friendship with a young Chinese girl who may not be what she seems. Sequel to "The Bomber's Moon."
13) Behind the lines
Author
Series
Corps volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy heads a mission into the jungles of the island Mindanao in search of a missing colonel, who is reported to be harassing the Japanese inhabitants.
Author
Series
Zion covenant volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Although she is safe in Czechoslovakia, Elisa cannot rest, since a million other lives are still endangered and cry out for her help.
15) Vienna prelude
Author
Series
Zion covenant volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Elisa, a Jewess traveling with an Aryan stage name, is caught in the middle of a plan to overthrow Hitler.
16) Honor bound
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
In 1942 First Lieutenant Cletus Frade, a Marine aviator, and two others are sent to Buenos Aires to sabotage the resupply of German ships and submarines.
17) The golden tulip
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
A wealthy businessman with a shadowy past frustrates the places of Francesca Visser to becomes a Master Painter in seventeenth century Holland.
18) Fields of home
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In latter part of the nineteenth century, their varied circumstances in Ireland and in America convince Peggy and Michael O'Driscoll and Eily O'Driscoll Powers of the importance of family.
19) Homeland
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Story of a German American family in Chicago, Ill. struggling to live the American dream.
20) The pirate's son
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.
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