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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London,...
3) Ghost light
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
1907 Edwardian Dublin. At the Abbey Theatre W. B. Yeats is working with John Synge, his resident playwright. It is here that Synge will meet a teenaged actress named Molly Allgood. Rebellious, beautiful, and irreverent, Molly has many admirers, but it is the damaged older playwright who is her secret passion. 1950s postwar London. An old woman walks across the city drifting in and out of the present as she remembers her life's great love...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
John Silver had never killed a man. But on a smoldering deck off the coast of Madagascar, his shipmates dead or dying, his cutlass has just claimed the lives of six pirates. Surrounded by their crewmates, Silver fears his merchant navy career is at an end. Then the pirate captain makes him an offer. On the other side of the world, Joseph Flint, a naval officer wronged by his superiors, plots a bloody mutiny. These two will become deadly partners -...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art of Death, to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer's identity ... and whether he is stalking the princess or Adelia herself.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Christmas in Paris, 1686. The spirit of the season is shattered when Martine Mynette is murdered while trying to prove that she is the adopted daughter of the last surviving Mynette heir and thus claim her inheritance - money that the family otherwise intended to go to the Jesuit school, Louis le Grand. Now, with Jesuits being implicated in Martine's death, rhetoric teacher Charles du Lac will not rest until he finds her murderer.
7) Etta
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Beautiful, refined, and elusive, Etta Place captivated the nation at the turn of the last century as she dodged the law with the Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Her true identity and fate have remained a mystery that has tantalized historians for decades. Now, for the first time, Gerald Kolpan envisions this remarkable woman's life in a stunning debut novel.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Rebekah Hendricks dreams of a life far beyond her family's farm in Oklahoma, and when dashing aviator Arthur Samson promises adventure in the big city, she is quick to believe he's the man she's meant to marry. Waiting for the end of the Great War and Arthur's return, Rebekah travels to Texas to care for her ill Aunt Adabelle, sure that her glamorous and exciting life is about to start. But the Spanish flu epidemic changes everything.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
As the Civil War rages across the land, two courageous young women embark on separate perilous missions ...Heading west on the Oregon Trail with he family's with her Thoroughbreds and a ragtag band of freed slaves, Jesselynn Highwood and her companions are forced to separate from their wagon train and begin a new journey fraught with hardship and peril. Back East, while smuggling medical supplies, her sister Louisa and brother Zachary are captured...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles. San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Archbishop of Canterbury's request for help from former spy Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is undeniably intriguing: The bodies of two men have been found in an ancient crypt, their violent deaths separated by decades. One is the Bishop of London, the elderly Archbishop's favored but controversial successor. And the last person to see him alive was Miss Hero Jarvis, with whom Sebastian shares a strained, and complicated, relationship.
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