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The emigrants (Emigrant novels ; #1)
Par Vilhelm Moberg, Gustaf Lannestock, Roger McKnight. 1995
Emigrants Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their three children and eleven others are fleeing poverty, religious persecution and social oppression…
in Smaland, Sweden. For ten long weeks the emigrants suffer cramped, filthy quarters of the sailing vessel finally arriving in New York. Followed by "Unto a good land" (DC36567). 1995. (Emigrant novels ; 1) Uniform title: Utvandrarna.The emigrants (New Directions paperbook)
Par Michael Hulse, Winfried Georg Sebald. 1996
The Emigrants is composed of four long narratives which at first appear to be the straightforward accounts of the lives…
of several Jewish exiles in England, Austria, and America. The narrator literally follows their footsteps, but gradually, Sebald's prose, which combines documentary description with almost hallucinatory fiction, exerts a new magic, and the four stories merge into one. 1996. Uniform title: Ausgewanderten.The Elephant Man
Par Frederick Drimmer. 1985
The elusive flame
Par Kathleen E Woodiwiss. 1998
Cerynise Kendall, born in Charleston but raised in England, is suddenly orphaned and penniless. Hoping to return to Charleston, Cerynise…
heads for London's wharfs. She finds childhood friend Beau Birmingham, who offers to take her aboard his ship if she marries him. Sequel to "The Flame and the Flower". Some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1998.The emperor's bones
Par Adam Williams. 2005
Catherine Cabot arrives in China, trying to uncover the truth of her past. Against an uneasy political background, a love…
triangle develops between Catherine and Edmund and George Airton. As the Japanese mass themselves on the borders, waiting for an excuse to invade, Catherine unwittingly becomes the perfect tool to settle the scores of two men who will stop at nothing to wreak their revenge. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2005.The emperor's babe: a novel
Par Bernardine Evaristo. 2001
Through the bustling city of Londinium we follow Zuleika - feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants made good. Married…
at the age of eleven to Felix, a rich Roman three times her age perpetually away on business, Zuleika drifts about his villa, bored, until one night several years later when Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor, newly arrived in town, spots her at the theatre... The story is told through a fusion of poetry and fiction, history and myth. Descriptions of sex. 2001.The heart specialist: a novel
Par Claire Rothman. 2009
Agnes is stripped of a regular childhood when her father is accused of a horrific crime and abandons the family.…
Never considered ladylike, she is drawn to the "wrong" things, such as microscopes, anatomy, and dissection, that lead to her finding her calling as a doctor. Yet despite a rapid rise to stardom in the medical community, she soon finds herself up against the same glass ceiling faced by women in her field. Inspired by the life of Doctor Maude Abbott. Some descriptions of sex. 2009.The hiring fair
Par Elizabeth O'Hara. 1994
The hour of the donkey
Par Anthony Price. 1980
During the Battle of Dunkirk, two young officers are stranded behind enemy lines. The officers, an inarticulate ex-draper and a…
resourceful ex-schoolmaster, witness a secret meeting which could determine the fate of the war. 1980.The house by the churchyard
Par Sheridan Le Fanu, Paul M Chapman. 2007
Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an…
old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relates to murders, both recent and historical, whose repercussions disrupt the complacent pace of village affairs and change the lives of many of its notable characters forever. 2007.The Hart brand: a western story (Five Star First Edition Western Ser.)
Par Johnny D Boggs. 2006
New Mexico Territory, 1896. Fourteen-year-old Caleb Hart is packed off on a train from St. Louis to his uncle's ranch…
in New Mexico, where he learns that he "rides for the brand," "real cowboys don't wear denim," and rustlers are a plague. Intrigue, kidnapping, and action abound when Pat Garrett, lawyer Captain Fountain, manhunter Kim Harrigan and rustler Mary Magdalene Holliday are added to the mix. 2006.The haunting of Falcon House
Par Eugene Yelchin. 2016
In 1891, twelve-year-old Lev Lvov travels to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to assume his duties as Prince, but must first use…
his special gift to rid the House of Lions of a ghost. Grades 4-7. 2016.The hours count: a novel
Par Jillian Cantor. 2015
A tale based on the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only Americans put to death for espionage during…
the Cold War, traces the experiences of their friend and neighbour, who takes in the couple's young sons when they are arrested by the FBI in 1950. 2015.The hired girl
Par Laura Amy Schlitz. 2015
Ever since the untimely death of her mother, 14 year-old Joan Skraggs has been desperately unhappy. Under the thumb of…
her cruel father and three sullen brothers, Joan lives like a servant on their farm just outside of Lancaster, forever cooking, cleaning, and attending to the many demands of the home. She has little freedom, and less support from her family for her love of reading and blossoming interest in education. When her father tells Joan she can't go to school anymore, it sets off a journey that will see her become first a runaway, then a hired girl on $6 a week, and finally her very own young woman. Set in America during the years before the First World War. Grades 5-8. 2015.The Horus road (Lords of the two lands. #3.)
Par Pauline Gedge. 2000
By the middle of the Seventeenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, the country has been ruled by the foreign Setui, who…
only care to plunder it, for two hundred years. One family in Thebes, descendants of the last true Egyptian king, vow to overthrow the Setui. Ahmose, continuing the struggle that has claimed his father and brother, knows that he need a miracle to take the Setui capital and defeat his enemies. Sequel to "The oasis". 2000. (Lords of the two lands ; 3)The hourglass
Par Barbara Metzger. 2007
Crusader Sir Coryn of Ardsley dies and becomes one of many beings known as "Death", but after hundreds of years…
he tricks Satan into giving him a chance to regain his mortality, as long as he finds a specific hourglass within six months. Meanwhile, Genie Macklin is a widow and an outcast, finding her calling helping wounded soldiers. They meet at Waterloo and marry - with nothing to her name, Genie has nothing to lose, and with his soul on the line, Coryn has everything, including love, to gain. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. c2007.The horse goddess
Par Morgan Llywelyn. 1982
Rich tapestry of Celtic lore and culture in a rousing, romanticized tale of love, adventure, and magic set at the…
turn of the Iron Age. Epona, daughter of a Celtic chief, avoids being forced into the priesthood, and runs away with Kazhak, leader of a small band of horsemen from Asia Minor's Sea of Grass. Some descriptions of sex. 1982.The house: a novel
Par Teresa Waugh. 2002
Sydney Otterton returns from the war penniless and moves into his crumbling family home with his wife, children and servant.…
What follows is a murder mystery evolving through the eyes of four characters who narrate the events in a variety of formats (journal, letters, research). Some strong language. 2002.The house girl
Par Tara Conklin. 2013
Intertwining the story of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia with that of an ambitious young lawyer in contemporary…
New York, the novel asks questions of justice, love and family, in slave-holding Virginia and today. 2013.The horseman's graves: a novel
Par Jacqueline Baker. 2007
Set in the farmland on the Saskatchewan-Alberta border. The Schoffs are immigrant farmers fractured by the tragedy that has marked…
their son forever. Métis farmhand Lathias becomes the unofficial guardian to the boy. Both boys are drawn to young Elisabeth. When she falls into the river, no one can foresee how this event will mark everyone. 2007.