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Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Exposed to fashionable society and romance--as well as clues about her mother--Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of a local apothecary, is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father's bedside to save the family legacy at a time when women are forbidden to work as apothecaries and the suspicious eyes of a scholarly physician and a competing apothecary are upon her.
43) The walnut tree
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the horrors she witnessed in France during the enemy invasion of 1914, Lady Elspeth Douglas, a titled young Englishwoman, is transformed by her experience and leaves her sheltered life behind to become a nurse and return to the battlefields of France to do her part.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
1969
Edition
1st Harvest ed.
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia.
46) Inescapable
Author
Series
Road to kingdom volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After receiving threatening letters from a stalker, Lizzie is forced to return to her childhood Mennonite home and reconsiders her initial judgments of her community and faith only to discover that the danger she ran from is closer than ever.
48) Beyond summer
Author
Series
Publisher
NAL Accent
Physical Desc
x, 383 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tam Lambert and Shasta Williams, new neighbors in Blue Sky Hill, team up to fight a corrupt deal that could force them from their homes, but find their friendships and loyalties tested in the process.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Working with the Search and Rescue bloodhound team to find missing people, single mother Delia Hopkins anticipates her upcoming nuptials, until a series of unsettling flashbacks threatens to devastate her life and the lives of those she loves.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Edition
1st Harvest ed.
Physical Desc
482 p.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by an old family photo of her mother and a high-ranking Nazi officer, historian Trudy Swenson begins to dig deep into the past to uncover the wartime experiences her mother refuses to talk about.
53) A hidden truth
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Karlina Richter discovers that a new shepherd will be sent to her village, she fears that she'll no longer be allowed to help her father with the sheep. She'll be relegated back to kitchen work, stuck inside all day. Her fears increase when the new shepherd shows little interest in the flock -- or in divulging why he's suddenly been sent East. Is he keeping secrets that will impact Karlina's family?" --P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder's The Devil of Nanking, takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to deep inside the secret history of one of the twentieth century's most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre.A young Englishwoman obsessed with an indecipherable past, Grey comes to Tokyo seeking a lost piece of film footage...
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2007], c2000
Edition
Warner Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
422 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Octavia E. Butler's acclaimed novels have won numerous awards, and she is a recipient of a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Parable of the Talents was selected as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of horrifying depravity. Assault, theft, sexual abuse, slavery, and murder are commonplace. Taking advantage of the situation,...
57) Rebellious heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Susanna's heart for the poor and Ben's disillusionment with British rule cross paths in 1763 Massachusetts, the two find themselves bound in a dangerous fight for justice.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
347p. 25cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
The American patriot volume 1
Publisher
Sheaf House
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Heritage ed., Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
432 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English