Suzanne Toren
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
139 pages : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gail Jarrow reveals in riveting detail the events leading up to the 1938 broadcast of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds. Listeners were terrified that the United States was actually being invaded by and army with strange and powerful weapons.
62) Sun kissed
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When Samantha Harrigan attends the local rodeo, she doesn't expect to wind up in jail. But that's precisely what happens when she tries to stop a drunkard from abusing his horse. At least she isn't alone. Tucker Coulter, a handsome local veterinarian, comes to her defense-and is arrested too. The charges are dropped, but Sam's troubles have only started. Her champion quarter horses are falling ill and the culprit is poison. As the insurance beneficiary,...
63) Sweet nothings
Author
Series
Publisher
Onyx
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing her abusive ex-husband, Molly Wells journeys across the country to seek refuge at the ranch of horse whisperer Jake Coulter, with her ex-husband's valuable stallion, Sonora Sunset, hoping that Jake will help her save the horse.
Author
Series
Heirs of Acadia volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Davis and his wife, Isabella, are continuing the historical saga of a pivotal time in America's past with descendants of those courageous Acadians. In The Innocent Libertine, the impulsive young American Abigail Aldridge becomes increasingly outraged by the chasm between her Christian ideals and the plight of the poor. A well-intentioned social outreach puts her right in the middle of disaster, which turns into a scandal, and soon she is on a ship...
Author
Series
Heirs of Acadia volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Historical drama and romance set in Venice and the English countryside of the 1800s. Two lives become intertwined despite the burdens of their past. A place that once seemed only a dreaded detour becomes a sacred venue for the unveiling of God's Providence"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Heirs of Acadia volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
319p. 21cm.
Language
English
Description
Book 1 of Heirs of Acadia, continuing the story told in the bestselling Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn Song of Acadia series. Erica Langston's comfortable home and loving family living near Washington, D.C., carry no outward hint of the sorrows and fears faced by her Acadian forebears, but she will soon discover that similar determination and fortitude will be required of her. When the British once again invade the nation's capital and leave death...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
171 pages ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in...
71) My son's secret
Author
Series
Jews the Third Reich and a web of secrets volume Book 1
Publisher
[Roberta Kagan]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
My beautiful boy ... Created in love ... born into hatred. There were so many terrifying stories about the Jews. People called them useless vermin, filthy, dangerous. Before I met Abram, I was afraid of them too. But I am about to tell you a very different story - a forbidden story. My love for Abram defied all reason ... as well as German law. Tonight our son giggles with excitement as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But our safety...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This sequel to Hadassah parallels the lives of Hadassah and Queen Esther in modern day Israel and the Persian kingdom. Each woman must remain strong as she fights for her people"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The continuing adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew; a single uncle findss romance; World War I approaches and the family heads to Rockaway Beach to avoid infection during an outbreak of infantile paralysis.
75) Eggs
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
76) The lost wife
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry--only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
351 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Tommy Tenney expands the extraordinary story of Esther like no novelist has done before. Both a thriller and a Jewish woman's memoir, Hadassah takes readers to ancient Persia (now known as Iraq), into the inner sanctum of the palace and back out into the war zones of battle and political intrigue. This gripping drama of a simple peasant girl chosen over many more qualified candidates to become Esther, Queen of Persia, captures the...
78) The Sacred Shore
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A historical epic brings together a group of banished French Acadians, a lonely British nobleman, and a couple on the verge of separation.