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Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on southwestern ranches in the 1930s, while across the border Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where a dreams are paid for in blood
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1835, 13 year old Thomas Jefferson Boyd is used to facing new challenges having left homes in South Carolina and Alabama. Now he finds himself in the Mexican territory of Texas and is left with the burden of helping his family adapt to their new homes. In the months that follow, he struggles to decide the difference between his friends and his enemies.
Author
Series
Fire and steel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In 1884, the Westland family arrives to settle in the harsh country of San Juan County, Utah, and works hard to make a life as the 19th century comes to a close. In 1908, the Schutze family raises their children and milks their cows in Graswang Village, Germany. For both families, although they don't know it, events are moving them and their world toward World War I.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Love Guides Hearts Along the Road to Freedom. Nine historical couples walk the road to love even as they dare to escape and help others break free from the injustices of slavery between 1849 and 1860. From Southern states of Georgia and South Carolina to above the Mason-Dixon Line in Indiana and Pennsylvania, they work within the network known as the Underground Railroad. There is hope for the future when people come together to fight evil, and when...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"A new anthology from Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler, centered around the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Of all the real-life serial killers whose gruesome deeds have splashed across headlines throughout human history, few have reached the near-mythical status of Jack the Ripper. Terrorizing the world with a rash of violent murders in London's East End...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"HEARTS SEWN WITH LOVE by Darlene Panzera Gold Bar, California, April 1850 During the California gold rush, a beautiful seamstress finds her heart torn between the men who want to marry her and the one fortune hunter who won't. WOVEN HEARTS by Jacquolyn McMurray New York City, 1911 A shirtwaist factory fire survivor struggles to provide for her family despite the disastrous misguided intentions of the handsome union organizer who tries to help. A...
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Leedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite a family curse determined to destroy their legacy and erase them from history. 1870. After a disastrous dinner at the Astor mansion forces her to flee New York in disgrace, socialite Beatrice Holbrook knows her performance in London must be a triumph. When she catches the eye of Charles Alnwick, one of the town's most enviably-titled bachelors, she...
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Some were unmarried by choice, others by circumstance, but single women in the 1800s carried the unfortunate label of "spinster." India Cunningham is happy running the ranch her father left her. Lawyer Anika Windsor is pitted against her first and only love. Elaine Daly has dedicated her life to caring for orphaned children. And Jody McMillan is determined to raise the money to expand the crowded orphanage. Once branded, can these spinsters find love?...
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