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El caso del pictograma (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #05)
Par Nancy Springer. 2020
"London, late 1850s. Enola, the much-younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when Enola's investigation into…
the disappearance of her landlady Mrs. Tupper, a Crimean War widow, grows cold." -- Provided by NLSA Christmas waltz
Par Josi S Kilpack. 2020
One dance, once a year. Marta and David first meet at the Yuletide Ball. Now, dancing the annual Christmas Waltz…
is a tradition in which they agree to tell each other the truth about their lives. Over the years, their lives take different directions, wrong turns, and heartbreaking spirals, but they never miss their chance to reconnect and encourage one another to live their best lives, even if they can't live them side by side. LDS fiction. Adult. UnratedThe printmaker's daughter
Par Katherine Govier. 2011
Against an exotic backdrop, comes this enthralling tale of one of the world's great unknown artists, Oei, the mysterious daughter…
of the legendary printmaker Hokusai creator of Japan's most famous image, The Great Wave. Oei defies all expectations of womanhood--rejecting domesticity in favor of dedication to the arts. A lost voice of old Japan, she reclaims her rightful place in this story of daughter-hood and duty, art and authorship, the immortality of creation and the anonymity of historyThe Lambs of London: a novel
Par Peter Ackroyd. 2004
A lightly fictionalized historical novel about real-life essayist Charles Lamb and his sister Mary, their shared love of Shakespeare and…
their fraught friendship with William Henry Ireland, a bookseller who unearths a trove of mystery of the play's origin shapes an enchanting, slightly melancholy, exploration of London societyGathering twigs (Twigs #03)
Par Charles Tabb. 2022
"Fifteen-year-old Brandy Shaw, like most girls her age, deals with private demons. Forced to leave her hometown of Winston-Salem, North…
Carolina, for Denton, Florida, she manages to forget the boy she left behind for a new one, Travis Daly. But Travis has his own problems that end up affecting Brandy in a number of destructive ways. After a chain of events lead to tragedy, Brandy must defend herself against charges of a heinous crime. All she has in her favor is a growing understanding of the mistakes she has made, her attorney and friend, Jack Turner-whose own early life had its problems as well-and her family. A story of love and redemption, Gathering Twigs captures the power of realizing we are worth more than we ever believed possible." -- Provided by publisherThe widow's war
Par Sally Gunning. 2007
Mystery author Gunning moves to literary historical with this provocative tale of a whaling widow determined to forge a new…
life in colonial Cape Cod after her husband drowns in 1761, forcing her struggle to remake her life credible and deal with complex living arrangementsYuma gold: Return Of The Sea
Par Steven Law. 2022
After serving an eight year sentence, for a crime he didn't commit, Ben Ruby is paroled from Yuma Territorial Prison.…
Along with detailed knowledge of a 300 year-old Spanish Galleon buried in the dunes of Imperial Valley, Ben uses a treasure map, in the form of trinkets, to set out to find the ship. If following up on an old tale wasn't difficult enough, Ben has to outrun the man that put him in prison, as well as a breach in a Colorado River dam that threatens to flood the entire valley. Adult. Some strong language. Some violenceThe lodestar (Heron Family #04)
Par Pamela Belle. 2017
"When Christopher Heron's favourite and much loved sister, Meg, marries Sir Robert Drakelon, against her family's wishes, Christie makes a…
vow to be there for her whenever she needs him. Meg's dreams of an idyllic married life are shattered almost immediately. Innocent and naïve, she accepts the ways of her husband and soon falls pregnant. In desperation, she reaches out to Christie, hoping he fulfils the vow he once made her. Despite his inexperience, Ambitious Christie has just secured a position in the services of the Duke of Gloucester, Richard Plantegenet. When Meg's cry for help reaches him, Christie is torn between keeping his vow or embarking upon a potentially victorious achievement over the Scots. Split between honouring his commitment to Meg and forfeiting the good will of the Duke, Christie pegs Meg's concerns down to her pregnancy and continues with the army. A mistake that will cost him a great deal.... Will Christie learn from his errors and find a way to put his ambitions to the side for once?" -- Provided by publisherA good death
Par Elizabeth Ironside. 2008
"It is 1944 and Theo Cazalle is returning to the family he left in Bonnemort, an estate deep in the…
French countryside, when he went off to fight with the Free French. Memories of Bonnemort have sustained him through four years of war-an image of a golden world to which he hoped, desperately, to return. But when at last he comes home, he finds that world in tatters. The house has been abandoned, a family servant has been shot, Theo's wife has been accused of collaborating, and a Nazi officer has been found dead-naked, with his throat slit-in front of Bonnemort's front gate. To save his sanity, Theo must restore order to Bonnemort, but first he must understand the disorder into which it has fallen. Is his wife a whore? A murderer? Or could there be another alternative?" -- Dust jacketThe fifth slug
Par Peter Georgas. 2014
The art critic for a metropolitan daily is looking forward to reviewing the hot new exhibit, but is assigned instead…
to cover a murder that occurred in his rural hometown. Adult. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. ViolenceMontana woman
Par Rosanne Bittner. 1990
"A Civil War widow, young Joline Masters leaves "bleeding" Kansas for Montana to settle under the Homestead Act. Mountain man…
Clint Reeves knows Montana well, having lost a wife and child there to an Indian attack. He has come home to Kansas, but his father-in-law and others blame him for his wife's and he child's deaths. Chance brings Clint and Joline together, and, feeling unwanted in Kansas, Clint agrees to take Joline to Montana. Clint and Joline are both brave, strong-willed people who balance off each other's strengths and courage, both of which are uniquely tested by the challenges of a lawless land filled with outlaws and Indians. As they help each other forge a new future, passion and desire become part of their determination to succeed in a new land. Through hardship and danger, two broken hearts become one full heart. Together Jo and Clint tame the savage land and learn to live with past tragedies to form new joys and a life shared as one." -- Provided by publisherOído atento a los pájaros (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain) #329)
Par Luis Goytisolo. 2016
"Ramón Rada is a successful painter who finds himself at a vital crossroads: he feels the need to connect his…
life and his work, and to do this he plans a memory book that will also be a guide for the reinterpretation of his artwork. His memories will take us to Miralrío, a village where someone is investigating some tragic events that occurred forty-five years earlier. From there, Luis Goytisolo develops a kaleidoscopic novel where historical recreation, artistic reflection and the chronicle of everyday life run parallel." -- Translation provided by NLSThe giant Joshua
Par Maurine Whipple. 1976
Set in the 1860s at Utah's Dixie Mission, this is a moving story of a desert outpost where a band…
of Mormons fight to survive in an arid land. A young Mormon girl finds herself torn between fear of her older husband and love for his son; between her passionate faith in the stern tenets of Mormonism and her equally passionate desire for beauty and gaiety. Considered a classic historical novel. LDS fiction. AdultLong journey home (Hope Springs #05)
Par Sarah M Eden. 2018
Widowed by war, Maura O'Connor has raised her son alone under the weight of poverty in the slums of New…
York City. That harsh life has taken a toll on them both. Desperate to save her son from the misery around them, she moves to the tiny town of Hope Springs, where her late husband's family lives, hoping that the decade of silence between them does not mean she and Aidan will be rejected outright. LDS fiction. AdultThe whispering city
Par Sara Moliner. 2015
In Franco's Spain, wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca has been murdered and Journalist Ana Martí Noguer is assigned to cover the…
case. What begins as a sensational murder case exposes revelations that implicate the regime's most influential figures. Adult. UnratedThough none go with me: a novel
Par Jerry B Jenkins. 2000
Elisabeth, born at the turn of the century, wants something more. One night as a young teen she finds what…
her heart has been yearning for. The defining moment in her life comes when she stands and promises to deepen her commitment and follow Christ, no matter the cost. So begins a remarkable journey of resolve, winding through valleys of loss and deserts of testing toward a legacy of faith. AdultSaga forastera: Libros 7-8 (Saga forastera #07, 08)
Par Diana Gabaldon. 2017
Books 7 and 8 in the Outlander Series. In An Echo in the Bone (DB 70073) from 2016, Jamie Fraser…
and his time-traveling wife Claire face suffering despite knowing the Revolution's outcome. In Written in My Own Heart's Blood (DB 79331) from 2017, Jamie, Claire and John must resolve the latter's marriage during the Revolutionary War. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2017Fall of kings (Troy #03)
Par David Gemmell. 2007
"On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King mass. Among them is…
Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ally to the Mykene, who knows that he must soon face his former friends in deadly combat. Within the city, the Trojan king waits. Ailing and bitter, his hope is pinned on two heroes: his favourite son Hektor, and the dread Helikaon who will wreak terrible vengeance for the death of his wife at Mykene hands. War has been declared. As enemies, who are also kinsmen, are filled with bloodlust, they know that many of them will die, and that some will become heroes: heroes who will live for ever in a story that will echo down the centuries." -- Provided by publisherEl caso del marqués desaparecido (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #01)
Par Nancy Springer. 2018
"England, 1888. When her sixty-four-year-old mother disappears on Enola's fourteenth birthday, Enola sends telegrams to her much older brothers Mycroft…
and Sherlock Holmes. After deciphering why her mother left, Enola escapes to London to search for her and becomes involved in a second mystery." -- Provided by NLSA captain for Caroline Gray (Proper romance)
Par Julie Wright. 2021
Caroline Gray would rather be daring and intelligent than demure and insipid, which is why she is still unmatched after…
her third season in London. Her family's threadbare finances leave Caroline with only one choice to secure her future: sail with the Fishing Fleet to India, where the son of a family friend is willing to consider an engagement to her. LDS fiction. Adult