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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 violenceShip 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 experiencesSarah 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 violenceLord 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 good lord bird (national book award winner): A novel
Par James McBride. 2023
Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From…
the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store , Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856-a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces-when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. When an argument between Brown and Henry's master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town-along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity to stay alive. Eventually Brown sweeps him into the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859-one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride's meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survivalThe garden of the Finzi-Continis
Par Giorgio Bassani. 1977
A fictionalized account of a moody and tragic Jewish youth in Italy just before the rise of Hitler. Portrays his…
relationship with Micol, the beautiful and pampered daughter of the Finzi-Continis, the richest and most important Jewish family in the town of FerraraHornblower and the Hotspur
Par C. S Forester. 1962
Commander Hornblower marries in England and soon afterward sails for duty off the French coast. War breaks out with France…
involving Hornblower in several sea battles and in a land raid, which destroys a French signal station. Sequel to Lieutenant Hornblower (BR 11553)Away from the dead
Par David Bergen. 2023
From Giller Prize-winning novelist David Bergen, an electrifying novel set in early-twentieth century Ukraine amidst the chaos of revolution. As…
anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen tells a deceptively stunning story of the restorative power of love amidst the destruction of warFlying colours
Par C. S Forester. 1966
In this sequel to Ship of the Line (BR 11556), Captain Hornblower, having surrendered his ship, finds himself in a…
French prison facing possible execution. If he manages to escape, he still must deal with a court martial in EnglandAfter Dunkirk
Par Milena McGraw. 1998
England, 1939. Young Wayne Luthie leads a squadron of pilots, known as the Wonders, as they learn to fly Spitfires.…
Luthie reminisces about his childhood in India, his uncles who died in World War I, his capture after Dunkirk, and falling in love with a WAAF. Then the Germans attack Britain. Some violenceThe players: a novel of the young Shakespeare
Par Stephanie Cowell. 1997
Fictional portrayal of William Shakespeare as a young man. An impoverished playwright and actor in London, Shakespeare is caught in…
a love triangle between his Italian mistress, Emilia Bassano, and his patron, the young earl of Southampton. Includes historical notes. Descriptions of sexThe emperor's general: a novel
Par James Webb. 1999
Ambassador Jay Marsh recounts serving as aide-de-camp to General Douglas MacArthur during the final days of World War II. Marsh…
recalls the roles MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito played and the trial of Japan's general Yamashita. He also reminisces about his mistress and that of MacArthur. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexScarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind
Par Alexandra Ripley. 1991
Continues the saga of Scarlett O'Hara which began in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (BR 11427). Scarlett returns to…
Tara after Melanie's funeral, but then makes her way to Ireland where she struggles to get Rhett Butler back into her life. The author was chosen by Mitchell's heirs to write the sequel. BestsellerGroucho Marx, private eye
Par Ron Goulart. 1999
Radio star Groucho Marx and his scriptwriter Frank Denby have had it with costar Polly Pilgrim, a spoiled child prodigy,…
when her actress mother is accused of murdering a plastic surgeon. Marx and Denby set out to prove the actress's innocence and uncover interesting information on the doctor. Some strong languageThe way to Bright Star
Par Dee Brown. 1998
At the turn of the century, Ben Butterfield looks back on his years as a young boy during the Civil…
War. Along with wagon master John Hawkes, Ben and animal handler Hadjee drive two camels captured by a Yankee captain from Texas to Bright Star, Indiana. They encounter many hardships, and Ben loses his heart to a young adventurerCity of light
Par Lauren Belfer. 1999
Buffalo, New York; 1901. Niagara Falls is harnessed for electricity, and environmentalists and union agitators fight the power company for…
control. Louisa Barrett, the progressive headmistress of a girls' school, becomes involved when the head engineer is murdered, and she suspects the adoptive father of her illegitimate daughterUnicorn's blood
Par Patricia Finney. 1998
As a young princess, Elizabeth I wrote of her affair with Thomas Seymour and of Mary Queen of Scots as…
the royal heir in a diary. Now queen, Elizabeth must find the stolen journal--identified by an embroidered unicorn with a ruby eye--before her opponents do. Companion to Firedrake's Eye (BR 11880). Some strong language