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No escape: a Masey Baldridge/Luke Williamson mystery
Par James Brewer. 1998
1873. When a yellow fever epidemic strikes Memphis, Captain Luke Williamson is quarantined on his steamboat. The rest of the…
staff of the Big River Detective Agency, Masey Baldridge and Salina Tyner, are hired to find out who is murdering patients while panic spreads. Some violenceThe captain's bride
Par Lisa Bergren. 1998
Following their marriage in Norway in 1880, Elsa and Peder Ramstad sail to America, where Peder owns a shipyard in…
Maine. Others are along, including Karl, Peder's business partner, and Elsa's sister Tora. Problems abound, but perseverance, faith, and fidelity triumph in the end. Prequel to Deep Harbor (BR 13142). 1998Gob's grief
Par Chris Adrian. 2000
Real and imagined characters help Gob Woodhull transcend his grief over the death of his twin, Tomo--a bugle boy killed…
in the Civil War at age eleven. With Walt Whitman's aid, Gob invents a machine to bring Tomo back to life. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2000Letters from Yellowstone
Par Diane Smith. 1999
Collection of letters portraying the formation of a scientific expedition in the summer of 1898 and the team's subsequent misadventures.…
Group leader Howard Merriam almost rejects the field botanist A.E. Bartram when he realizes Bartram is a woman. As the work proceeds, the diverse group becomes a unified "science clan." 1999Ship of the line
Par C. S Forester. 1938
May 1810. Horatio Hornblower is now in command of his first ship, the HMS Sutherland, but he has one major…
problem--the crew is short by about 250 men. He hires whoever are willing and has them trained well enough to stage five solo raids against the French army and navy along the coast of Spain. Sequel to Beat to Quarters (RC 46120, BR 11555)American dreams
Par John Jakes. 1998
Continues the Crown family saga begun in Homeland (BR 09462). Paul, twenty-nine, a well-known photographer, travels the world making news…
documentaries, some of which get him in trouble with the British government. His cousin Carl satisfies a passion for cars and flying, becoming a daring aviator, and cousin Fritzi becomes an actress in Hollywood. Some strong language. BestsellerHuman voices
Par Penelope Fitzgerald. 1980
BBC employees struggle to keep Broadcasting House in operation during the bombing of London in World War II. Young intern…
Annie Asra, two department directors, and those around them face daily questions of survival but also grapple with workplace dramas and personal crises. Based on Fitzgerald's own wartime experiencesJitterbug: a novel of Detroit
Par Loren Estleman. 1998
Detroit, 1943. A serial killer is roaming the city murdering people suspected of hoarding ration coupons. Lieutenant Max Zagreb uses…
all the methods available--legal and illegal--to track down the culprit. Meanwhile, police contend with growing racial unrest that explodes into a race riot. Violence and strong language. 1998Scandalmonger
Par William Safire. 2000
Political scandals of the late eighteenth century revealed by James Thomson Callender, a Scottish fugitive and journalist hired to write…
incendiary articles regarding men of power. Selecting Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson as his primary targets, he describes their alleged sexual indiscretions. 2000Last trolley from Beethovenstraat (Verba Mundi)
Par Grete Weil. 1992
After World War II, Andreas, a poet, marries Auschwitz survivor Susanne. Their marriage and his writing career are jeopardized by…
his obsession with the memory of Daniel, Susanne's young cousin Andreas had attempted to hide during the Holocaust. 1997Sarah on her own (American dreams)
Par Karen Coombs. 1996
Orphaned fourteen-year-old Sarah survives the 1620 trip from London to the New World, but her aunt does not. Her aunt's…
fiance, who sent for them, has also died. Not wanting to marry, become an indentured servant, or settle on the land she has been allotted, Sarah searches for a way home. Violence. For junior and senior high readersWings of fires
Par Charles Todd. 1998
Inspector Ian Rutledge from Scotland Yard is sent to Cornwall to investigate three recent deaths in a prominent family. He…
discovers one victim was a famous poet whose works involved the Great War. Although still suffering from shell shock, Rutledge discovers more ghastly murders in the family's past. Some violenceSiam, or, The woman who shot a man: a novel
Par Lily Tuck. 1999
Thailand, 1967. Newly wed Claire meets silk entrepreneur Jim Thompson at a party shortly before he mysteriously disappears. Her obsession…
with Thompson's fate, mixed with culture shock and anxiety over her husband's war-related work, lead her to commit an irrevocable act. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1999The remember box
Par Patricia Sprinkle. 2000
When her aunt dies, writer Carley receives her "Remember Box," which contains mementos from the summer of 1949 in Job's…
Corner, North Carolina. Carley was just eleven, as she and her family were confronted with murder, rape, communism, and the struggle for civil rights. Prequel to Carley's Song (BR 13872). 2000The tree of bells
Par Jean Thesman. 1999
Seattle, 1922. When a storm fells The Ornament Tree (BR 11448) outside the Deveraux boarding house, it is replaced with…
a tree that house residents decorate with bells to symbolize their hopes. Clare, sixteen, wonders about her future until she rescues an abused young boy. For junior and senior high readers. 1999The rose grower: a novel
Par Michelle Kretser. 1999
Relates the intertwining lives of a Gascony magistrate's three daughters (one who grows roses), a local doctor in love with…
the rose grower, an American balloonist who lands on the magistrate's estate, and the town's mayor as they all gradually become caught up in the French Revolution. Violence. 1999Lord Hornblower
Par C. S Forester. 1946
The Hornblower saga continues as the intrepid commodore becomes a peer of the realm by quelling a mutiny and concluding…
his private war with Napoleon. Incidentally, he rekindles his romance with the lovely French Marie. Sequel to Commodore Hornblower (RC 26916, BR 11558)The history of the siege of Lisbon
Par José Saramago. 1996
Nobel prize-winning author describes the solitary life of a proofreader, Raimundo Silva, who has the audacity to rewrite history on…
one of his assignments. Silva decides that in 1147 the king of Portugal reconquered Lisbon without the help of Crusaders. His boss, Maria Sara, then falls in love with himDoña Inés vs. oblivion: a novel (Pegasus prize for literature)
Par Ana Torres. 1999
Caracas aristocrat Doña Inés is obsessed with regaining title to a piece of jungle land. The legal battle between her…
white heirs and the descendants of her husband and a black slave woman go on for centuries after her death in 1781. Mobil Pegasus Prize for Lit. 1999Death on a silver tray
Par Rosemary Stevens. 2000
London, 1805. George "Beau" Brummell is beseeched by his friend the duchess of York to clear a ladies' companion, whom…
she had recommended, of murder charges. The dreadful old Lady Wrayburn has been poisoned and the duchess wants to avoid a scandal. 2000