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Author
Series
The House of Falconer volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has set...
2) 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
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Frederieke Teitler and her sister, Astra, live in a home, in a city, in a world divided. Their father left when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family. He's done his best to provide for them and shield them from antisemitism, but now being a Jew has become increasingly dangerous, even in their beloved home of Czernowitz, long considered a safe haven for Jewish people. And when Astra falls...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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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
Lake Union Publishing
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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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
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adam, a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Will he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls? Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people he interviews is his flatmate Sala, who is stoic, determined, and funny-and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller-America's first feminist and the pioneering journalist who inspired a generation of writers and activists-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post"--
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country's military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly-but secret-cross-country wilderness...
11) In memoriam
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, all of whom are safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. They receive weekly dispatches from The Preshutian, their school newspaper, informing them of older classmates killed or wounded in action....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Forced from her home in postwar Paris, aspiring young writer Delphine Auber embarks on a journey to New York’s Harlem, and then to Havana and Key West, in search of her father, whom she believes is famed luminary Ernest Hemingway.
14) Wolves of winter
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting-and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France 'til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield. Obsessed with tracking down...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
258 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life.
In 1492, during the Spanish Inquisition, Benvenida and her family are banished from Spain for being Jewish, and must flee the country or be killed. They journey by foot and by sea, eventually settling in Istanbul.
Over four centuries...
Author
Publisher
Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jazz-age Paris was the center of the artistic and literary world, and the center of the center was Gertrude Stein' s salon, where the famous and aspiring creative talents gathered to gawk at Stein' s Picassos and vie for status. Young Midwesterner Ida Caine arrives in Paris with her husband Teddy, a would-be Hemingway who thinks he can adventure first and write later. When Teddy falls in with the Stein set, he brings Ida to the salon, where she is...
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...
18) Trim Sets Sail
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
45 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Trim, a new ship's cat. Join Trim as he learns about: the parts of the ship, how to climb up--and down--the mast, and how to make friends with the crew. Trim wants to be the best ship's cat ever. Can he find the purr-fect way?
19) 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,...
20) The Kid
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Moves, an imprint of Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
234 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Destiny, Colorado: 1881. Fourteen-year-old Henry Upton reckons it's his job to keep his younger brothers together on the farm now that Mama and Papa are gone. Henry writes stories as The Kid, the fastest draw in the West, to keep meddling folks away from town. The stories are a major success, but the plan doesn't work. So Henry stops writing them stories.
Herbert might lose his job as an editor at Gunslinger Magazine if he can't find out why The...