Catalog Search Results
9722) West against the Wind
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Abby seeks both her father and the secret of a handsome but mysterious boy during an arduous journey by wagon train from the middle of the country to the Pacific coast in 1850.
9723) My name is Eva
Author
Language
English
Description
"Evelyn Taylor-Clarke sits in her chair at Forest Lawns Care Home in the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by residents with minds not as sharp as hers. It would be easy to dismiss Evelyn as a muddled old woman, but her lipstick is applied perfectly, and her buttons done up correctly. Because Evelyn is a woman with secrets and Evelyn remembers everything. She can never forget the promise she made to the love of her life, to discover the...
9724) Galloway's gamble
Author
Language
English
Description
"After the Civil War, bickering brothers Jamey and Jake Galloway set out from Serenity Falls, Texas to seek their fortune at poker tables across the west. Cautious Jamey prefers being a live coward to a dead hero, but brash big brother Jake rarely backs down from a fight. Cheated out of a fortune, they return to Texas to find their hometown threatened by a land-grabbing cattle king and a shady banker. Can Jamey and Jake cook up a scheme to outfox...
Author
Series
Chosen volume 2
Publisher
Focus on the Family/BroadStreet Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Based on the acclaimed video series The Chosen, the most amazing story ever told - the life of Jesus - gets a fresh, new telling from New York Times bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins. The Chosen: Come and See captures all the action and drama in season two of The Chosen TV series. But it does much more than reflect the show. It also takes us into the backstory, thoughts, and motivations of key characters like Simon (who will later be called Peter),...
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 15
Publisher
Bregdan Publishing
Language
English
Description
Carrie joins hands with Janie and Elizabeth as threats against their medical clinic become reality. Anthony fights to support his wife, while facing threats of his own. In the midst of danger, a new love is born. Jeremy and Marietta embrace the historic beginning of blacks right to vote – only to lose someone who has become very precious to them. Abby is in New York City for a Bregdan Woman meeting, but she, Thomas, and Matthew are caught up in...
9728) Girl At Dunkirk
Author
Publisher
David Spiller
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It is May 1940 and people in the English coastal town of Ramsgate wonder what Britain's declaration of war with Germany will lead to. Then members of the British Expeditionary Force in France start dribbling back to Ramsgate harbour like defeated men. Gradually the truth emerges. Unless the 300,000 troops trapped on the French coast can be evacuated, Britain's war effort will be all but over. Amongst the private citizens volunteering to supplement...
9730) The Black Sparrow
Author
Series
The Little Folk Saga volume Book 1
Publisher
Dorrance Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The Black Sparrow is a great adventure of hardships and tales of a young man coming into manhood in a land so much like our own but different in many ways. Read all about the mythical creatures of many origins and a power in the land that provides for all. About the Author R. K. J. Sprock grew up in the bottomlands of Missouri, four miles from the river with a train track directly in front of her house. Being homeschooled gave her more free...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at a private school in Washington, DC. Everything changes when she's recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by family friend and legendary WWI hero Major General William Donovan. Donovan has faith in her - and in all his "glorious amateurs" who are becoming Anna's fast friends: Maggie, Anna's down-to-earth mentor; Irene, who's struggling to find support from her husband...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt watches uneasily as the world heads rapidly down a dangerous path. The Japanese have waged an aggressive campaign against China, and they now begin to expand their ambitions to other parts of Asia. As their expansion efforts grow bolder, their enemies know that Japan's ultimate goal is total conquest over the region, especially when the Japanese align themselves with Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy,...
9735) In care of Cassie Tucker
Author
Language
English
Description
When her teenage cousin moves in with her family on their Nebraska farm in 1899, eleven-year-old Cassie learns a lot, including the meaning of "heathen" and "bigot."
9736) The Sherbrooke bride
Author
Series
Bride series (Catherine Coulter) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Gentleman Smuggler's Lady Cornish Coast, 1815 When a prim and proper governess returns to England from abroad, she expects to comfort her dying father--not fall in love with a smuggler. Will Helen Fletcher keep Isaac Seaton's unusual secret? The Doctor's Woman (A Carol Award Winner!) Dakota Territory, 1862 Emmy Nelson, daughter of a missionary doctor, and Dr. James Clark, city doctor aspiring to teach, find themselves working side by side at...
Author
Series
The Spanish Bit Saga volume 29
Publisher
Goldminds Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Moon of Madness is the latest edition of the continuing Spanish Bit Saga, where the People gather to listen to a story by one of their young men, Badger, who, originally thought to be foolish and mischievous, tells a gripping tale of a great shaking of the earth."--Inside jacket cover.
9739) The passionate one
Author
Series
McClairen's Isle trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
9740) Love protects: a novel
Author
Series
Leaving Lennhurst volume 3, Anna
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From a desperate yet useful childhood at the Lennhurst Asylum and School for Disabled Children, Anna is married off to a plantation baron, a man old enough to be her father. When he collapses on the frozen pond and drowns, could it be the freedom she's never known? With barely a day of peace as a young widow, her cold-hearted stepsons throw her from their father's home. William Gibbs thinks he knows desperation. With the death of their mother, he...
