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City of refuge: A Novel
Par Tom Piazza. 2009
"In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families-one black and one white-confront a storm that will change the…
course of their lives. SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward, the community where he was born and raised. His sister, Lucy, is a soulful mess, and SJ has been trying to keep her son, Wesley, out of trouble. Across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern transplant and the editor of the city's alternative paper, faces deepening cracks in his own family. New Orleans' music and culture have been Craig's passion, but his wife, Alice, has never felt comfortable in the city. The arrival of their two children has inflamed their arguments about the wisdom of raising a family there. When the news comes of a gathering hurricane-named Katrina-the two families make their own very different plans to weather the storm. The Donaldsons join the long evacuation convoy north, across Lake Pontchartrain and out of the city. SJ boards up his windows and brings Lucy to his house, where they wait it out together, while Wesley stays with a friend in another part of town. But the long night of wind and rain is only the beginning-and when the levees give way and the flood waters come, the fate of each family changes forever. The Williamses are scattered-first to the Convention Center and the sweltering Superdome, and then far beyond city and state lines, where they struggle to reconnect with one another. The Donaldsons, stranded and anxious themselves, find shelter first in Mississippi, then in Chicago, as Craig faces an impossible choice between the city he loves and the family he had hoped to raise there." -- Provided by publisherWhen the nightingale sings
Par Suzanne Kelman. 2021
"1937, Europe and America. Based on a true story, this powerful novel about wartime courage and extraordinary friendship, tells how…
two women changed the fate of the Second World War and the course of history. When an impossibly shy young woman named Judy Morgan finishes her studies in Physics at Cambridge University, it is with dreams of changing the world for the better. Meanwhile, a beautiful, young Jewish woman decides to flee her beloved Austria, changing her name to Hedy Lamarr, and risking everything to get to America, as far away from the Nazi threat as possible. A powerful friendship is formed when the two women meet in pre-war London-with Judy's passion for science a perfect match for Hedy's brilliant talent for invention. So when the world is gripped by a war that nobody could have imagined in their worst nightmares, both Hedy and Judy know they must act now. As their lives repeatedly collide, in Cambridge, California, Pearl Harbor and beyond-throwing both their lives into danger and tragedy-Judy and Hedy both find themselves seeking ways to end the war. But neither of them will know that one of them is on a path of tragedy. A path that could change the outcome of the war, but also threaten their friendship forever..." -- Provided by publisherDeath at Dartmoor (Victorian-Edwardian mysteries #08?)
Par Robin Paige. 2002
"A sentence to Dartmoor Prison is a sentence to a living hell..." Lord Charles Sheridan and his American wife, Kate,…
have heard some truly awful things about Britain's most notorious prison. But Dartmoor and its mist-shrouded environs hold special appeal for both Sheridans. Kate hopes to find inspiration for her new Gothic novel, while Charles plans to implement a fingerprinting program at the prison--and arrange a meeting with one of its most infamous inmates, Samuel Spencer. He's convinced that Spencer--a Scotsman who admitted to killing his wife--is, in fact, innocent. AdultThe cabin book: or, National characteristics
Par Charles Sealsfield. 1852
Originally published in German in 1841, this novel, in part about Texas life in the 1830's, became a best-seller. It…
paints Texans as they have ever since liked to see themselves: bigger than life, better than most other people, mavericks, uncompromising about their freedom and dignity, sometimes cheats and tricksters, and courageous if not downright foolhardy. AdultLa mujer de la escalera (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Policiaca #398)
Par Pedro A González Moreno. 2018
"A suicide and a mysterious murder serve as the starting point for this story in which two recent university graduates…
face a mission that will change their lives forever: to locate some ancient medieval theater books. Thus begins a thrilling search in which the characters will end up finding themselves and their own destiny, outlining at the same time the portrait of a bridge generation that struggled to find its own space in the Spain of the late seventies and early eighties. A gripping story of intrigue, of ambitions and grudges, of love and heartbreak, of frustrations and desires, where the murkiest and the noblest feelings intermingle and clash dramatically, always against the backdrop of the theatrical world, that metaliterary space in which, as in a game of mirrors, not everything is what it seems...." Translation provided by NLS33 D.C: una novela (A.D #02)
Par Ted Dekker. 2016
"Maviah, a slave in Arabia, meets the prophet Yeshua and takes his teachings to heart. She gathers a large following…
of fellow outcasts and travels around Arabia, spreading what she learned from Yeshua. When what she has built is threatened, she goes to find him." -- Provided by NLS30 D.C: una novela (A.D #01)
Par Ted Dekker. 2015
"Maviah, daughter of a Bedouin sheik, is sent home from Egypt in disgrace when she becomes pregnant. After raiders kill…
her son and capture her father, she travels to seek an audience with King Herod. On her travels, she meets a man called Yeshua." -- Provided by NLSBreaking TWIG: a novel
Par Deborah M Epperson. 2012
"Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, |Breaking Twig| is a coming-of-age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman…
trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life. Not even Twig's vivid imagination, keen wit, and dark sense of humor is enough to help her survive the escalating assaults of Helen and a new stepbrother, but help comes from an unexpected source-Frank, her stepfather. Sometimes, having one person who loves and believes in you is all a girl needs to keep hope alive." -- Provided by publisherThe Devil comes courting (Worth saga #03)
Par Courtney Milan. 2021
"Captain Grayson Hunter knows the battle to complete the first worldwide telegraphic network will be fierce, and he intends to…
win it by any means necessary. When he hears about a reclusive genius who has figured out how to slash the cost of telegraphic transmissions, he vows to do whatever it takes to get the man in his employ. Except the reclusive genius is not a man, and she's not looking for employment. Amelia Smith was taken in by English missionaries when she was a child. She's not interested in Captain Hunter's promises or his ambitions. But the harder he tries to convince her, the more she realizes that there is something she wants from him. She wants everything. And she'll have to crack the frozen shell he's made of his heart to get it." -- Provided by publisherTo desire a wicked duke: a novel (Courtship wars #06)
Par Nicole Jordan. 2011
"Two years after losing her beloved fiancé to war, Tess Blanchard feels ready to chance love again. Thus she's aghast…
when a threatening scandal forces her to wed her longtime nemesis, Ian Sutherland, Duke of Rotham. The impossibly arrogant, irresistibly seductive nobleman is the last man Tess could ever imagine loving. Making matters worse, she discovers secrets in Rotham's wicked past that send her fleeing London for his remote castle in Cornwall. Having long desired Tess, Ian is exasperated that the ton thinks he's driven his reluctant new bride from their marriage bed and follows hard on her heels. Naturally, their spirited rivalry leads to glorious, pleasure-filled nights-complicated by a mysterious ghost who haunts Ian's castle and Tess's vexing insistence that he play matchmaker to her friends. But can blazing desire between two warring hearts turn into wedded bliss and timeless love?" -- Provided by publisherLa tierra maldita
Par Juan Francisco Ferrándiz. 2018
"In the 9th century, Barcelona was on the farthest edge of the Holy Roman Empire. The neglected town of 1500…
inhabitants had become an abandoned land, razed by savage hordes and subject to tyranny by corrupt nobles who exploited its citizens. To this cursed land arrives the young bishop Frodoí. Recently named to the post by the Frankish king, his destiny is closer to a punishment than an honor, but something inside him-innate rebellion or ambition-leads him to accept the challenge and make the journey along with a retinue of colonists seeking new opportunities in the far-off frontier." -- Provided by the publisherLa princesse au cobra: roman (Folio junior #742)
Par Alexandre Torquet. 2001
1813, au moment de la bataille de Vittoria en Espagne. La princesse Mariam, fille de Hervé de Kernaoüet et de…
la reine Bérénice, prend part au combat. Elle sera sauvée in extremis par son père... Dernier épisode de la trilogie entamée avec Les sultanes de Bonaparte et Le royaume de Bérénice.The mistress of Tall Acre: a novel (The ballantyne Legacy Ser. #4)
Par Laura Frantz. 2015
Sophie Menzies is left destitute after the Revolutionary War and is ostracized by her community. She befriends a motherless neighbor…
child and later agrees to a marriage of convenience with the child's father, General Ogilvy. In exchange for raising Lily Cate, Sophie will become mistress of his Virginia estate. But it's not that easy--she faces challenges that test her faith as she attempts to form a new family. 2015. AdultNew Mexico sunrise: faith and love hold generations together in four complete novels
Par Tracie Peterson. 2001
Garret Lucas was hired to take Maggie Intissar from Kansas to her estranged father's ranch in the New Mexico territory.…
But Maggie will do anything to avoid the painful memories of her past. AdultThe ballroom: a novel
Par Anna Hope. 2016
Friday nights are when the men and women at Sharston Asylum may mingle to dance in the ballroom. That's where…
John and Ella first meet and, despite their grim circumstances, they strike up a tenuous courtship. Adult. UnratedDanny and the boys: being some legends of Hungry Hollow (Great Lakes books)
Par Robert Traver. 1951
Anatomy of a Murder author, Robert Traver, tells tales full of mischief and pranks pulled by Danny an his four…
friends who live in Hungry Hollow, deep in the backwoods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. AdultUnspeakable things
Par Kathleen Spivack. 2016
Life is a test of courage and silence, especially for refugees from Hitler's Europe. For Anna and her cousin, Herbert,…
New York gives opportunity, but not safety from the memories of the life they had before. Adult. UnratedWolf pass: a novel
Par Steve Thayer. 2003
Wrongfully labeled a chief suspect after a shooting by a long-range sniper, deputy sheriff and former wartime army ranger P.A.…
Pennington realizes an old nemesis, a Nazi colonel, has returned. Adult. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Strong language. ViolenceThe Betrayed
Par Reine Arcache Melvin. 2022
"Shy, idealistic Pilar is resolved to carry on her dead father's fight against the dictatorial regime in control of their…
homeland, while her flamboyant older sister Lali reacts to their father's death by marrying the enemy--Arturo, the dictator's godson. Each sister is prey to her desires and ambitions as she tries to find her place in a rapidly changing world." -- Provided by publisherShield of thunder (Troy (Series) #02)
Par David Gemmell. 2006
"The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each…
with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder. Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come." -- Provided by publisher