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9661) Mutiny!
Author
Series
Pirate hunter (Brad Strickland) volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Davy, an orphaned fourteen-year-old boy, becomes a pirate with his uncle after they escape the British frigate upon which they were to be hanged after the captain believes they were involved in a mutiny.
9662) The guns of Tortuga
Author
Series
Pirate hunter (Brad Strickland) volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Davy and his uncle, Captain Hunter, take their ship and its crew to the island of Tortuga where they must make some alliances with some of the pirates in order to try to rescue some British officers being held for ransom.
9663) Heart of dreams
Author
Series
A Colorado hearts novel volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Still reeling from a broken heart, Katie Brinkman, the youngest of the Brinkman sisters, does her best to keep busy. When the sympathetic glances of the townspeople drive her into the wilderness for a much-needed day away, she stumbles upon a man close to death. A man who appears to be on the other side of the law. Unwilling to leave him to die, Katie throws her sisters into a panic when she returns with the dangerous-looking fellow and insists on...
9665) Sacred hearts: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core.
9667) The Castle Keepers
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Leedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite a family curse determined to destroy their legacy and erase them from history. 1870. After a disastrous dinner at the Astor mansion forces her to flee New York in disgrace, socialite Beatrice Holbrook knows her performance in London must be a triumph. When she catches the eye of Charles Alnwick, one of the town's most enviably-titled bachelors, she...
9668) Sky in the deep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan, but when faced with her brother's betrayal, and driven by a growing love for her brother's friend Fiske, she attempts to unite the two clans.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Daisy Bumgarten isn't thrilled to be trying to catch a duke's attention while dressed like a flower pot caught in a swarm of butterflies. But, after all, when in Rome (or in this case London society) . . . . Since her decidedly disastrous debut among New York's privileged set, the sassy Nevada spitfire's last chance to "marry well" lies across the pond, here in England. If she must restrain her free spirit, not to mention her rib cage, so be it. She...
9671) Say to this mountain
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
9672) The piano tuner
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design." - From cover p.4.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Clara Estby is hauled by her mother, Helga, on a 7,000-mile walk from Spokane, Wash., to New York in 1896. The fashion industry is looking for promotion of the new, shorter dress for women; Helga is looking for a cash prize to save the family farm from foreclosure ... and Clara dreams of becoming a businesswoman.
9674) The devil's weapons
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis most dangerous weapon in this new entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series"--
April 1940. By terms of the Soviet Nazi Nonaggression pact, the two dictatorships divided the helpless nation of Poland. Now, the Russians are rounding up enemies of the state in their occupation zone, but one essential...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A fictionalized account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, or Greasy Grass as the Indians called it, told by a series of first-hand accounts from both white and Indian points of view provides a panorama of the battle in which a sense of what most likely happened powerfully emerges"--
9676) Joseph's choice-- 1861
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In the early days of the Civil War, Joseph must decide whether to defend his stepfather's abolitionist and pro-Union beliefs or side with the slave owners and Southern rights supporters in his home town of Branson Mills, Kentucky.
9677) Sinking sand: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After suffering a devastating loss, Dr. Holden Winters steels his heart against the idea of love and against the God he once served. Army nurse Callie Myers wants to learn as much about medicine as possible so she can help care for the people in her small mountain town of Shyler's Point, Arkansas. Dr. Winters is willing to teach her, but only if she stays quiet about her God. Will the idyllic beauty of Oahu convince Holden that God exists? Or will...
Author
Language
English
Description
1944. Elizabeth's mother works at Dresden Zoo, where her favorite animal is an elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be shot to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden to save her. And then the bombs start to fall ...