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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Life is hard for Ruby growing up in poverty on the wrong side of the mountain on her grandfather's farm where literally the sun didn't shine. The Appalachian setting isn't her friend as she searches for an easy life at the "tippy-top" with contentment and security. Two different men come into her life, one virtuous and the other rebellious. Ruby makes a series of bad decisions, causing her life to tumble into an unexpected outcome.
162) Twenty and ten
Author
Pub. Date
1978, c1952
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
76 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Twenty school children, living in a refuge in France, hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II and vow never to betray them.
163) Lucky
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her Uncle Drew took her to the racetrack, where she got lucky - and that roll of two-dollar bills she won has never since left her side. Jodie thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then - through a combination of hard work and serendipity - started a singing career, which catapulted her from St. Louis to New York...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Scotland, the 11th Century. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother's death and the weight of an unknowable prophecy. When she is married, at fifteen, to the Mormaer of Moray, she experiences firsthand the violence of a sadistic husband and a kingdom constantly at war. To survive with her young son in a superstitious realm, she must rely on her own cunning and wit, especially...
166) Always remember
Author
Series
Ravenswood novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
359 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Description
"Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society--even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and children, and of walking--and dancing. When Ben Ellis comes...
167) Afterlives
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza too, is...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
169) A season most unfair
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Scholastica, or Tick, has grown up helping her father make candles in his shop. The experience has its ups and downs--while constantly smelling like tallow makes it hard for Tick to keep friends, stray cats love her. Still, she delights in the work and the fact that she can help Papa. Every summer, they use the long daylight hours to make as many candles as possible to sell at the Stourbridge Fair, the highlight of their year. And this year Tick is...
170) All my secrets
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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"New York, 1898. The only thing more shocking than Arthur Stanhope III's unexpected death is the revelation that his will bestows his company--and most of the vast fortune that goes with it--to the nearest male heir, leaving his mother, wife, and daughter nearly impoverished. His widow, Sylvia, quickly realizes she must set aside her grief to ensure their daughter, Adelaide, is launched into society as soon as the appropriate mourning period passes....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A haunting, remarkable debut about secrets, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center. In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land... ...Rosie lived peacefully in Moscow and her mother told her fairy tales. Magical stories that could have been the folklore of their people, or her mother's own imaginings-Rosie was...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Description
The daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s, Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are inseparable due to Molly's bouts of mental confusion, and as Peggy goes to great lengths to protect her sister's secret, she falls in love with a charming composer, which sparks the bitterest of betrayals.
Author
Series
Kyiv mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions continue to vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the political turmoil, young Samson Kolechko is forced to place his engineering career on hold. But in the city of Kyiv everything remains up for grabs and new opportunity lurks just around the corner. When two Red Army soldiers commandeer his home, Samson's life is completely upended. But as Samson juggles his personal...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
519 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
A fictionalized account of the professional life of Frances Perkins, who served as the United States's fourth Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945--the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet and the developer of the social security program.
176) Warbonnet Creek
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
263 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"Kirby had carried a seven-year grudge with him wherever he went. He'd followed Joe Lowry from Wyoming through Montana, New Mexico, Missouri and the Dakotas. But now that he'd found his man, Mason Kirby was stuck. Because there was real trouble in the territory. Further north, the Sioux and Cheyenne were joining forces as they had never done before. At Fort Fetterman the Army sat, tense with anticipation, waiting for a call for help. Now, of all times,...
178) Montana snowfall
Author
Series
McCutcheon Family volume 7
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"When Roady Guthrie, longtime foreman for the McCutcheon ranch, takes time off to go bear hunting, he never expects to find a young woman asleep in his hunting cabin in the midst of a snowstorm. Worried what their unchaperoned situation will do to her reputation, Roady is uneasy when the snowfall keeps them stranded -- just long enough for him to lose his heart. Sally Stanford has a secret -- one that sent her running from St. Louis to Y Knot and...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble With You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Sister Seven Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her cousin Mimi who is determined to keep her a "nice girl" -...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
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