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Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary psychologist and investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community involving mysterious fires, petty crimes, and the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid.
Author
Language
English
Description
Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life while writing honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments.
Author
Language
English
Description
1817 Kent, England. Imogene Chively's father has chosen Ernest Steeple as her future husband. But his younger brother, Benjamin, wins her heart while she is giving him drawing lessons. When a series of accidents threaten the pair, it becomes evident that someone seeks to do Ben harm.
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is suprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the fate of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Author
Series
Song of Acadia volume 3
Language
English
Description
Facing the threat of war, can two families be united in peace amid the heartbreak?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident--and may very well have been an act of assassination. "Killing Patton" takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton's tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.
10) King George III
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the eighteenth-century British monarch during whose reign the American colonies fought to break away and form an independent nation.
Author
Series
At Somerton volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The intertwined lives of the prominent Averley family and the servants of Somerton Court are forever changed when an old secret comes to light"--
13) Soldier boy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages : map ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy who grew up in the slums of late nineteenth-century Chicago runs away, joins the cavalry, and fights with General Custer in the battle of Little Big Horn.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books Children's Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xi, 247 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In post-World War II London, two street-tough children attempt to build a hidden garden, an act that awakens hidden courage in the children and profoundly disrupts the neighborhood.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the Mexican-American War brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation.
In 1770, the fuse of revolution is lit by a fateful command "Fire!" as England's peacekeeping...
In 1770, the fuse of revolution is lit by a fateful command "Fire!" as England's peacekeeping...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the legendary Civil War general who began his career as a West Point cadet and after becoming a legend in the west was perhaps best-known for his "last stand."
17) La petite four
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In London in 1815, sixteen-year-old Lady Emily Southwell, who aspires to be an artist, enlists the aid of her three best friends from the Barnsley School for Young Ladies, in helping her out of an unwanted betrothal to a man she suspects of evil intentions, even as she is drawn to a mysterious stranger.
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