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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
208 pages cm
Description
"Portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and the cruel and dictatorial family father, set against a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. The book spans the period from 1973, just before the Khmer Rouge genocide, to 2015"--
22) Loyalty
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To avenge his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British during the American Revolution, witnessing firsthand the hypocrisy, lies, and allegiances that come with war, and must determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies.
24) The last crown
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Series
Publisher
Forge/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
530 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"Across Baltic shores, English battlegrounds, and the land of Northen Lights, The Last Crown is the follow up to The Widow Queen, and the epic conclusion of Swietoslawa's journey from Polish princess to Queen of Denmark & Sweden and Queen Mother of England"--
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht-the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
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"Musician Natalie Curtis is broken by strict training and a lost love. After encountering Native American music, she is determined to save these ancient songs which are being silenced by the government. In doing so, Natalie steps inside the space betweenthe notes to discover something she'd forgotten-music powerful enough to heal. Based on a true story"--
28) Uprising
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
29) Light and air
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024].
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Halle and her mother find unexpected solace on a tuberculosis ward in 1930s upstate New York"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Two young friends are separated by unspeakable tragedy during the Greek Civil War, haunted by a vow to return to one another and their home on the island of Corfu where queens, villagers, and goddesses come together to prove there is no force more powerful than the magic of a mother's love"--
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 21 cm
Description
When Fabienne Bissette attends the annual Met Gala for an exhibit honoring her grandmother Estella, a famed designer, she begins to learn more about her grandmother's past, uncovering a story of tragedy, heartbreak, and secrets.
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 3
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the midst of his wedding reception, Hornblower receives orders to report the next day to his command in the Channel Fleet and help protect England against Napoleon's threatened invasion.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
ix, 337 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A novel inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry follows a penniless Irish girl who adopts the identity of a boy in order to enter medical school, and embracing the freedom of living life as a man, becomes one of the most well-respected physiciansin nineteenth-century Cape Town.
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Series
Refined by love volume 2
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"Rose McKay has just graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and is now making every effort to succeed in the pottery business in post-Civil War West Virginia, including taking advice from her handsome competitor--but has she put her trust in the wrong man?"--
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Series
Bounty novels (Paul Colt) volume 2
Publisher
Five Star Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 23 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"1992: French-Canadian factions renew Quebec's fight to gain independence, and wild, beautiful Véronique Fortin, daughter of a radical separatist convicted of kidnapping and murdering a prominent politician in 1970, has embraced her father's cause. So it is a surprise when she falls for James Phénix, a journalist of French-Canadian heritage who opposes Quebec separatism. Their love affair is as passionate as it is turbulent, as they negotiate a...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A prima ballerina. Two American medics. And a young Jewish girl with no name... At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save Italian Jews in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events"--
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Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyśl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
45 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Description
Thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens wants the world to know that her papa, Mark Twain, is more than just a humorist and sets out to write a comprehensive biography of the American icon.
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
En Tokio, 1971, el maestro Yoshikawa se desangra en el piso de su mansión. En Vladivostok, 1938, Ekaterina Nikolayéva, acusada de traición contra la patria, espera su juicio y condena. También en Vladivostok, pero en 2019, Takumi recibe una llamada de emergencia desde su país natal: su hermana fue encontrada casi muerta en una barranca del Estado de México y él decide volver a casa.
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