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1) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A runaway woman puts aside her fears of the Seminole Indians and accompanies a widower to Florida in the 1800s.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Three Chinese youngsters, Steel Hope, his bookmate Mountain Pine, and Firecracker, a gravekeeper's daughter, vow to remain true to each other and their country, a promise that becomes impossible to keep as war, upheaval, and personal tragedies intrude.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Running Fawn must accept the changes forced upon her people by the coming of the white man, but life at the Mission Boarding School in Calgary, where she has been sent with the chief's son Silver Fox, is very strange and lonely, and she is further confused by Silver Fox's new belief in God and his marked interest in her.
6) The alienist
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In New York City of 1896 reporter John Moore, psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, and police secretary Susan Howard join forces to catch a serial murderer.
7) Obasan
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1994, c1981
Language
English
Description
Naomi Nakane, a child of Japanese immigrant parents, is interned by the Canadians at the beginning of World War II when she is five years old.
9) Mirror image
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of identical twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson and their coming of age at the turn of the century.
10) Brother Wind
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
The story, set in Alaskan prehistory, of three individuals from different tribes who find their destinies intertwined as they fight for survival.
11) Unicorn's blood
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Queen Elizabeth I, holding her people together in the midst of internal and international strife, finds her authority and her entire monarchy threatened when a private diary she kept as a young princess is stolen.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Young Titus Bass abandons his home and the tempting neighbor girl Amy, to answer the call of the wilderness, traveling south from Kentucky to New Orleans, back up river to St. Louis, and into the unexplored Great Plains, encountering vixens and villains along the way.
15) Redeeming love
Author
Publisher
Multnomah
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the biblical story of Hosea and Gomer, set in California's gold country in the year 1850. Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel must make peace with God and accept the love of her husband, Michael.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Civil War novel traces the lives, passions, and careers of military leaders Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee, who all meet on the same battlefield for the first time at Fredericksburg, where they experience the battle from four very different points of view.
19) Nightjohn
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
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