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Learned By Heart: A Novel
Par Emma Donoghue. 2023
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love…
at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen.Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages.Where the ground meets the sky
Par Jacqueline Davies. 2002
During World War II, Hazel and her parents move to New Mexico where her father works on a confidential army…
project. Hazel's mother has trouble adjusting while Hazel and her curious classmates ferret out spies and the big secret. For grades 5-8. 2002Soldier boys
Par Dean Hughes. 2001
Two teenagers--Spencer Morgan, an American Mormon from Utah, and Dieter Hedrick from Germany--eagerly join the armies of their countries during…
World War II. Their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge, where they learn that war is more than bravado. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2001Cyanide Wells
Par Marcia Muller. 2003
The disappearance of Matthew Lindstrom's wife fourteen years ago, just before their divorce, branded him a murderer and destroyed his…
career. When he discovers Gwen is alive, Matt heads for California to look for answers and possibly revenge--but instead finds her lesbian lover and an even bigger mystery. Some strong language. 2003Je suis un tremblement de terre (Neuf)
Par Martin Page. 2009
Des portraits de lui sont affichés un peu partout dans la ville. Une photo de classe, avec ces phrases :…
Avis à la population. Vous êtes priés de prendre garde à cet individu qui peut représenter un danger pour la sécurité de tous. Ce garçon est un tremblement de terre. C'est vrai que de temps en temps, là où il passait, il y avait une vibration, une secousse, une fissure. Et puis les choses se sont accentuées. Aggravées. À présent, les objets qu'il côtoie se craquellent. Les bâtiments dans lesquels il se trouve tremblent sans raison apparente. Il met tout le monde en danger. Il faut agir. Voir des spécialistes. Prendre des mesures. Des mesures graves, des mesures d'urgence. -- 4e de couvEnemy women
Par Paulette Jiles. 2002
As the Civil War sweeps through Missouri in 1864, Adair Colley turns eighteen witnessing Union militia atrocities. Arrested as an…
enemy collaborator, Adair suffers the indignities of wartime prison while having an unexpected romance with Union major William Neumann, her interrogator. Some strong language. 2002Short stories about Union and Confederate spies. In "Hobson's Choice," a captain from Tennessee hangs only one spouse after both…
were declared enemies. In "The Dead Line," an old man discovers his wife, a Confederate spy who betrayed him, alive almost fifty years later. Some violence and some strong language. 2001Duke of Egypt
Par Margriet De Moor. 2001
Holland, 1960s. Joseph, a Gypsy, falls in love with Lucie, a settled farm girl. They marry, but Joseph can't shake…
his wandering ways and accompanies his family every summer. When he returns, Joseph spins poetic tales of Gypsy life, gradually revealing wrenching details of his family's experience during World War II. 1996Cassada
Par James Salter. 2000
A fighter pilot, assigned to an air force squadron in occupied Germany in 1955, aspires to become a star in…
target gunnery. Suddenly there is a moment of terror when he and a comrade fly too high, and run out of fuel in a heavy rain. Some strong language. 2000The hunters
Par James Salter. 1999
Thirty-one-year-old Cleve Connell is sent to Korea and soon becomes a flight commander. All of the fighter pilots eagerly want…
to shoot down the enemy MIGs and become "aces." But, with every mission, Connell gradually loses his nerve. Some violence and some strong language. 1956The other side of dawn
Par John Marsden. 2002
The war to defeat Australia's invaders is drawing to a close. Ellie and her guerilla band of teenagers assist the…
liberators from New Zealand in a final assault. But peacetime resettlement isn't easy. Sequel to The Night Is for Hunting (BR 13778). Some violence. For junior and senior high readers. 1999Under a war-torn sky
Par Laura Elliott. 2001
Europe, 1944. After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Lieutenant Henry Forester of Virginia begins trekking across…
occupied France. With help from members of the resistance, Henry tries to avoid capture and reach the safety of the American lines. Some violence. For senior high readers. 2001Jane and the final mystery (Jane Austen Mystery #15)
Par Stephanie Barron. 2023
The final volume of the critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Jane Austen as amateur sleuth March 1817: As winter turns…
to spring, Jane Austen's health is in slow decline, and threatens to cease progress on her latest manuscript. But when her nephew Edward brings chilling news of a death at his former school, Winchester College, not even her debilitating ailment can keep Jane from seeking out the truth. Arthur Prendergast, a senior pupil at the prestigious all-boys' boarding school, has been found dead in a culvert near the schoolgrounds-and in the pocket of his drenched waistcoat is an incriminating note penned by the young William Heathcote, the son of Jane's dear friend Elizabeth. Prendergast had been widely reviled for his ruthless bullying. Has William exacted revenge on his tormentor, or is there a larger conspiracy looming? Jane takes up lodging near the idyllic college in order to untangle the duplicitous testimonies surrounding the prefect's death. But Winchester College is a world unto itself, with its own language and rites of passage, cruel hazing and dangerous pranks. Can she clear William's name before her illness gets the better of her? This audiobook edition includes an exclusive afterword narrated by the authorShip 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)Dupont Circle: a novel
Par Paul Kafka-Gibbons. 2001
Three couples who live in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., contemplate love and matrimony. Judge Bailey Allard falls in love with…
the female housemate whom his son recommended. Allard's clerks, Max and Eve, plan to wed, and his gay son wants to marry his lover. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2001Number the stars: A Newbery Award Winner
Par Lois Lowry. 1989
For ten-year-old Annemarie, life in occupied Copenhagen in 1943 is not much changed by the war--until the Nazi persecution of…
Danish Jews begins. Annemarie's family helps a Jewish friend by having her pose as Annemarie's dead sis- ter. When a packet must be taken to the captain of a ship smuggling Jews to Sweden, Annemarie learns that being brave means "not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do." For grades 3-6 and older readers. Newbery Medal. 1989Lord 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)Tree by leaf
Par Cynthia Voigt. 1988
In 1920 twelve-year-old Clothilde lives with her family on an isolated peninsula waiting for her father to return from the…
war. When he arrives, maimed and broken, he retreats to the boathouse. A mysterious voice helps Clothilde breach the gulf between her father and the rest of the family. For grades 6-9Dandelion Daughter
Par Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. 2023
A runaway bestseller in Québec, where it has captured the hearts of readers and pushed trans-identity into the mainstream conversationDandelion…
Daughter is an intimate, courageous portrait of what it's like to grow up having been assigned the wrong sex at birth. Set against the windswept countryside of the remote Charlevoix region some five hours north of Montreal, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay's autobiographical novel immortalizes her early years as an alienated boy trapped in a world of small-town values and her parents' dissolving marriage, through complex adolescent years of self-discovery and first loves, to the harrowing episodes that fuel the growing realization that she must transition and give birth to her new self if she is to continue living at all. One of the first novels of its kind to appear in Québec, this inspiring story has already connected with a wide readership, and has been adopted by many schools to help expand worldviews and curriculums.Whistle me home
Par Barbara Wersba. 1997
Being a tomboy, Noli is surprised when the new boy in school asks her out. She soon discovers that TJ…
is truly her soul mate and falls deeply in love with him. Noli is disappointed when, even after months, their relationship is still chaste. Then TJ confesses his sexual orientation to her. For senior high and older readers