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The 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. AdultLaura's ma: adapted from the Little house books (Little House Chapter Bks. #No. 11)
Par Heather Henson. 1999
New 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. UnratedThe dark room
Par Rachel Seiffert. 2001
Stories of three Germans affected by the Third Reich. Physically deformed Helmut, excluded from the Nazi army, becomes obsessed with…
photographing wartime Berlin's citizens. During the Allied occupation, Lore, a devoted sister, perceives her parents' participation in evil. And Micha, in 1997, probes his grandfather's role in the SS. Booker Prize finalist.Will you still love me tomorrow?
Par Edward Gorman. 2001
Black Water Falls, Iowa; 1959. Anti-communism is at its peak after a visit to the state by premier Nikita Khrushchev…
of the USSR. When a high-profile local liberal, attorney Sam McCain's client, is murdered, Sam investigates. Trouble arises when the two main suspects are also killed. Some strong language.Flight to freedom (First Person Fiction Ser.)
Par Ana Veciana-Suarez. 2002
Writing in her diary thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her family in Havana, Cuba, in 1967. She continues her journal…
after they escape from the communist island to join relatives in Miami, Florida, where Yara, speaking only Spanish, attends a new school. For grades 6-9.Death of Riley
Par Rhys Bowen. 2002
New York City, 1901. Irish immigrant Molly Murphy, last seen in Murphy's Law (BR 14095), cajoles private investigator Paddy Riley…
to hire her as his assistant. When Paddy is murdered, Molly gets a glimpse of the culprit and attempts to track him down.Wolf 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. Violence