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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The author of the "magnificent...complex, vivid" (New York Journal of Books) Sin Eater returns with a rousing and propulsive novel based on the astonishing true story of the first female Pinkerton detective whose next assignment could end the Civil War. Kate Warner is many things: the country's first female detective, a Pinkerton agent, and a union spy. It's August 1863, and her latest assignment could finally end the bloody war and bring the fractured...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''"Every so often a book comes along that is so brave and necessary, it extends a lifeline when it's needed most. This is one of those books." - Katherine Applegate, author of the Newbery Medal-winning, The One and Only Ivan Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu explores anorexia - and self-expression as an act of survival - in a wrenching and transformative novel-in-verse. But another voice inside me says, We need help. We're...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''A "beautifully written" (Hilary Mantel) story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renowned 1700s English painter Thomas Gainsborough, who struggle to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits. Peggy and Molly Gainsborough—the daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s and the frequent subject of his work—are best friends. They spy on their...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, describes the life of Ellen Lark, a deaf woman who became a favorite student of Alexander Graham Bell while he raced against Western Union to cast a human voice over wires.
''A mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that follows a deaf former student of Alexander Graham Bell as she learns to reclaim her own authentic voice. Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.
"Rachel was a girl who loved science and the sea, books and writing and all the creatures of the world. Rachel was quiet, a listener by nature. But when she saw problems, she could not remain silent. Some people thought...
6) Mrs. Mike
Author
Series
Mrs. Mike series volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
''A classic and wholesome romantic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide, Mrs. Mike brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life—and masterfully evokes the tender, touching moments that bring a man and a woman together forever. Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta after a long, hard journey from Boston, sixteen-year-old Katherine Mary O'Fallon never imagined that she could lose her heart so easily—or so completely....
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 396
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A hardcover omnibus volume containing the two novels by Peter Carey that have won the Booker Prize: Oscar and Lucinda (first published by Harper & Row in 1988) and True History of the Kelly Gang (first published by Knopf in 2000). With an introduction byPaul Giles and chronology of author's life and times"--
"Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her formidable intelligence, outspoken opinions and headstrong determination gain her the favor of the beau monde's leading taste-maker Beau Brummell, Lady Hester Stanhope learns to bend the rules of the ton to her own advantage until England is plunged into war, changing her world forever.
"Even with her privileged life, Lady Hester Stanhope knows that claiming the adventurous life she truly wants will not be easy, thanks to her eccentric father's...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots's darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom"--
"Scotland, 1567. A pregnant Mary, Queen of Scots is dragged out of her palace by rebel lords and imprisoned in the isolated Lochleven Castle, an ancient fortress surrounded by a vast lake. Her infant son and heir,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the letters and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, this moving novel inhabits his life and mind"--
""A luscious novel . . . [Helen] Humphreys offers a fresh view of a philosopher thought of as a loner, depicting his family home as a place for communion and companionship . . . This is Thoreau as he really lived." — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak...
Author
Publisher
Imbrifex Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A time-travel experiment that transported Julius Caesar from his last Ides of March to a covert lab in Pasadena in the year 1999. The plan is for him to stay in the lab for four days and then return to Rome to meet his fate"--
"When 20-something Cassandra Fleury is invited to join an elite team of classicists and scientists to test new technology for dating ancient artifacts, she jumps at what appears to be the opportunity of a lifetime. But after...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller-America's first feminist and the pioneering journalist who inspired a generation of writers and activists-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post"--
"A "sweeping" (Entertainment Weekly) novel of America's forgotten leading lady, the central figure of a movement that defined a nation - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"April,1912: It's the perfect finale to a Grand Tour of Europe—sailing home on the largest, most luxurious ocean liner ever built. For the Fortune sisters, the voyage offers a chance to reflect on the treasures of the past they've seen—magnificent castles and museums in Italy and France, the ruins of Greece and the Middle East—and contemplate the futures that await them. For Alice, there's foreboding mixed with her excitement. A fortune teller...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The runaway international bestseller - part sweeping historical epic, part legal thriller - following the trial that shaped the life of the young Julius Caesar and gave root to an immortal legacy. Every legend has a beginning. Rome, 77 B.C. Senator Dolabella, known for using violence against anyone who opposes him, is going on trial for corruption and has already hired the best lawyers and even bought the jury. No man dares accept the role of prosecutor...
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