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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.
43) The middle heart
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
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In post-Civil War Missouri, quiet twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Mayfield marries the brilliant and eccentric scientist Andrew Early. The couple eventually make their way by train to their new life in California where their marriage grows troubled as Margaret gradually comes to realize she has married a madman.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
When Nathaniel Hopson, journeyman to the cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, is sent to Cambridge to install a new library at the home of Lord Montfort, where he finds himself pulled into a mystery after Lord Montfort is found dead.
46) Panama: a novel
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old Ohio girl, longing for adventure, gets her wish when she moves to Panama with her father who has been hired to work on the Panama Canal, and meets Federico, an aristocrat toiling as a digger.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Julia Lovat travels to Morocco to try and learn more about Catherine Ann Treganna, a young seventeenth-century woman whose diary Julia has discovered, and in the course of her journey, Julia finds long-buried secrets and a surprising love that will change her life forever.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In 1959, Haruko marries the Crown Prince of Japan and becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to enter the Japanese monarchy, where she is met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, who tries to control Haruko at every turn.
50) The lion hunter
Author
Series
Mark of Solomon volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After losing his arm in a lion attack, Telemakos--the half-Ethiopian grandson of King Arthur--takes care of his infant sister and lives with Abreha, a family enemy turned friend who Telemakos was warned to watch carefully.
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.
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
Series
Hoofbeats volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Captured by members of another Irish clan, Lara continues to protect the young filly, Dannsair, and ponders how they might escape together.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
On Jamaica, a remote Caribbean colony in 1665, Captain Charles Hunter plots to steal Spanish gold from the galleon "El Trinidad," which awaits repairs in a nearby, heavily fortified harbor that is guarded by Cazalla, a bloodthirsty commander.
56) Dangerous
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008, c1993
Language
English
Description
Sebastian, the notorious Earl of Angelstone, is intrigued when he receives an entirely improper visit from country bred Prudence Merryweather, who has put her reputation on the line in an attempt to convince him not to duel her with her hot headed brother, and as their acquaintance grows, he finds himself torn between wanting to possess the innocently bold young woman, and needing to protect her.
Author
Publisher
PGallery Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A marine biologist tries to uncover the secrets of some mysterious Chinese artifacts that were discovered after a natural disaster struck Northern California in the early 1900s, but the artifacts disappear again, only to be rediscovered by a new generation of explorers who are eager to explore the ocean to find answers.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
British World War I nurse Bess Crawford, recovering from an injury, takes the opportunity to honor a promise she made to dying patient Arthur Graham to deliver a message to his brother, and becomes involved in trying to help yet another brother, Perrigrine, who has been locked up in an asylum for years on the charge that he murdered a maid, recover his memory and learn the truth about the crime.
59) The religion
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
French countess, Carla la Penautier, seeks a passage to Malta to find the son taken from her at his birth twelve years prior, and enlists the help of a Rabelaisian soldier of fortune and arms dealer named Mattias Tannhauser.
60) The fall of Troy
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.
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