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1) Outlander
Author
Series
Outlander volume 1
Language
English
Description
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
469 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century.
As the siblings leave home and fan across...
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set during the Golden Age of Pirates and the shadowy aftermath of the Salem witch trials, this vivid literary debut is inspired by the captivating true story of real-life pirate Samuel Bellamy, combining high seas adventure, star-crossed longing, surprisingly timely questions about social justice and freedom, and the emotionally satisfying tale of one strong-willed young woman determined to choose her own path.1715, Eastham, Massachusetts: As the...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xvi, 777 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory in this captivating epic from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters. Carrie Ballentyne's life was upended in 1845 when she had to leave the only home she'd ever known in the mountains of upstate New York. With her are her widowed mother and younger brother Nathan, but the separation from Bonner, Ballentyne,...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!
From the bestselling author of Truths I Never Told You, Before I Let You Go, and the The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer's powerful WWII novel follows a woman's urgent search for answers to a family mystery that uncovers truths about herself that she never expected.
"Fans...
From the bestselling author of Truths I Never Told You, Before I Let You Go, and the The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer's powerful WWII novel follows a woman's urgent search for answers to a family mystery that uncovers truths about herself that she never expected.
"Fans...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two 1990s Ugandan teens are kidnapped and forced into the Lord's Resistance Army where they dream of surviving their captivity and their intent to remain good people.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When TV producer Kit O'Neill discovers her late grandmother was Mercy Welles, an Oscar-nominated actress who disappeared just as her career was taking off, she puts her investigative skills to good use, which leads her to Martha's Vineyard-the island that holds the key to the fateful summer that changed everything forever.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler’s rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly.
After...
Author
Series
Bridgerton volume 8
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Gregory Bridgerton has fallen for Hermione Watson, who is in love with another, so he joins forces with Hermione's friend, Lady Lucinda Abernathy, to stop the disastrous alliance - only to find love turning everything upside down.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Harper paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth. Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into the world, a little girl they name Elida-meaning non-birth...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
320 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Max doesn't want to be sent to London. He's never left Berlin. He barely speaks English. He doesn't want to live with strangers. Most of all, he doesn't want to leave his parents behind.
On the Kindertransport boat to England, Max has never felt more alone--until he meets two unexpected traveling companion: a kobold named Berg and a dybbuk named Stein.
Germany is becoming more and more dangerous for Jewish families, but Max is still determined to...
12) The Night War
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
284 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1942, and twelve-year-old Miriam, who is Jewish, is not safe. With help and quick thinking Miri is saved from the roundup that takes her entire Jewish neighborhood. She escapes Paris, landing in a small French village, where the spires of the famous Chateau de Chenonceau rise high into the sky, its bridge across the River Cher like a promise, a fairy tale.
But Miri's life is no fairy tale. Her parents are gone--maybe alive, maybe not. When she's...
13) The divorcées
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry, a novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future "A delicious literary page-turner from a fierce new voice." -Rebecca Makkai. Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though,...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and lacking options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleon’s Grande Armée. As a naturalist, her near-magical ability to heal any wound with herbal mixtures invites awe amongst the soldiers…and suspicion. For behind Cornelia’s vast knowledge of the natural world is a secret...
Author
Series
A gaslight mystery volume 27
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must shine a light on the truth and catch the fiend who killed a young reporter in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. Louisa Rodgers is working as a magazine reporter and is hoping midwife Sarah Malloy can help her. New Century Magazine, like Colliers and McClure's, is branching out into investigative articles on pressing social issues. Louisa explains...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
101 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Flor's mother dies in early 1969, she is left with her abuelita who refuses to accept her identity as a trans girl. In order to be true to herself, Flor must leave home. She makes friends with Tami, a trans teenager, and the two girls make their way in the queer and trans community of New York City. But things quickly become dangerous when Flor and Tami meet up with friends at the Stonewall Inn on a night that leads to a police raid and violence....
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Bakis, author of Lives of the Monster Dogs, creates an atmosphere of gut-churning dread from the first chapter, when two strange women warn of trouble on Arkel’s island while the Forts wait for their boat. Trouble happens quickly, and there are scenes so anxiety-producing that you might want to put the book down and check to see that your windows and doors are secure.
Author
Series
Bridgerton volume 6
Language
English
Description
"In every life there is a turning point...A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. A fter a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiii, 349 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author comes the story of rising conflict between the super-powers that gripped the world, a global war that almost happened: The Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy, inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed miserably and set in motion the events that put the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a collision course that nearly started a war that would have enveloped much of...