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Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the Confederate Army firing on Fort Sumter, the Civil War has begun--and an invasion of Washington, DC, from Secessionist Virginia seems imminent. As the population evacuates, the President is in desperate need of men to defend the capital. Lincoln's trusted aide, Adam Speed Quinn, and Quinn's old friend from the Bloody Kansas conflict, Senator Jim Lane, hastily assemble a motley crew of just over a hundred men and garrison them in the East Room...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, New York-set historical novel following a Jewish cigarette girl who moonlights as a spy and attempts to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II"--
1603) Prophecy: a thriller
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When several of the queen's maids of honor are found dead, rumors of black magic abound. Elizabeth calls upon her personal astrologer, John Dee, and Giordano Bruno to solve the crimes. While Dee turns to a mysterious medium claiming knowledge of the murders, Bruno fears that something far more sinister is at work.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights. When London's finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having a roaring good time. But the festivities at Bilverton House take a turn for the worse when the group are stranded by a summer storm. And when a member of the Bilverton family turns...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1943. Across the city, prominent figures in science and the military are bursting into flame and being incinerated. Convinced that the Germans have deployed a new terror weapon, a desperate government turns to the one man who can track down the source of this dreadful menace--Sherlock Holmes. The quest for a solution drives Holmes into an uneasy alliance with the country's most brilliant scientific genius, Professor James Moriarty. Only Sherlock...
1606) The golden key
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Titan edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"1901. After the death of Queen Victoria, England heaves with the uncanny. Seances are held and the dead are called upon from darker realms. Helena Walton-Cisneros, known for her ability to find the lost and the displaced, is hired by the elusive Lady Matthews to solve a twenty-year-old mystery: the disappearance of her three stepdaughters who vanished without a trace on the Norfolk Fens. But the Fens are an age-old land, where folk tales and dark...
1607) After the rain
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
108 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her diary, a ten-year-old girl writes about her family's experiences living in Washington, D.C., in 1864-65, during which time the Civil War comes to an end and President Lincoln is assassinated. Includes historical notes.
1608) Chain of thorns
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Love, duty, and danger collide in Edwardian London, as the Shadowhunters face the greatest threat they have ever known.
1609) The penmaker's wife
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Birmingham, 1880. Angelica Chastain has fled from London with her young son, William. She promises him a better life, far away from the terrors they left behind.Securing a job as a governess, Angelica captures the attention of wealthy widower Stanley Hampton. Soon they marry and the successful future Angelica envisaged for William starts to fall into place.But the past will not let Angelica go. As the people in her husband's circle, once captivated...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A thrilling tale of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incredible true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the Russians and the United States, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton. 1963: Reeling from the death of her mother and President Kennedy's assassination, Catherine Gray shows up on Elizabeth Bentley's doorstep demanding answers to the shocking mystery just uncovered about her family....
1611) Sarah meets Silas
Author
Publisher
The Troy Book Makers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
155 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Ruth Bass is SO GOOD at this! In her captivating prequel to Sarah's Daughter she returns us to an earlier time of (mostly) benevolent country folk, furnished with barns, square dances, quilting needles, and dinners of beans and biscuits, capturing the joys and sorrows, the struggles and hopes of the past with absolute authenticity and freshness. (-Judith Viorst, best-selling author).'"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
E.P.I.C. Publishing Services
Pub. Date
©2016
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This book completes the trilogy about Rose Hibbard. She and her family are on their own from now on, but this book finds her blissfully married and still coping with the grand and the not so grand on a New England farm in the late 19th century. If you think it's silly that they continue to live and grow and love and die, that just means you've never had a bunch of characters roam around in your brain awhile. They are quite real ... this trilogy is...
1613) Cinder Bella
Author
Publisher
Kathleen Shoop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"One Christmas morning, while young Amish twins Henry and Harvey are sledding, they find a big black dog wandering in a field. They adopt the Newfoundland and name him Lucky, and he soon becomes their best friend and playmate. When tragedy strikes and Harvey drowns in a spring creek, Henry's only source of comfort is his furry companion. To make matters worse, the Depression is especially hard on Henry's parents who have more children than they can...
1615) Brooklyn Bridge: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life takes a dramatic turn when, in 1903 Brooklyn, his parents turn their apartment into a factory for making teddy bears; and Joseph wonders whether he will ever see the glitter of Coney Island.
1617) Cold Rock River: a novel
Author
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1963, pregnant seventeen-year-old Adie Jenkins is intrigued by the diary of a young slave girl who had three illegitimate children with her master; and after she gives birth, Adie starts to wonder if her midwife is the daughter of the woman who wrote the journal.
1618) Always Noel
Author
Publisher
Kathleen Shoop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
62 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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