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Secrets of the Nile volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
Set in 1884, nineteen-year-old Inez travels to Egypt after the sudden death of her parents to uncover the truth about their deaths, and as she attempts to unravel the mysteries her parents sought, she becomes a pawn in a larger game that threatens to killher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
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Series
Lucky ladies of London volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant Eli Williams was supposed to be dead. In the two years since his shipwreck, his friends and family mourned him, his brother spent his savings, and his fiancaae married someone else. So, when he turns up in the middle of the London social season, he quickly becomes the talk of the town. All Eli wants is to set his life back in order and reconnect with Jane Bishop, a friend who has always meant so much more to him, before returning to sea....
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Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A history of pioneer settlement in the western United States also provides craft activities related to the daily lives and social customs of the pioneers, including cooking johnnycakes, building a covered wagon, and making a braided rug.
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Language
English
Description
"Published by Oxford University Press in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows relied on new and exhaustive research to tell the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history. On September 11, 1857, southern Utah settlers slaughtered more than 100 emigrants of a California-bound wagon train. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown follow up that volume with an examination of the aftermath of...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"This book should be in school libraries everywhere..." Amazon Top Ten Hall of Fame reviewer, 5 stars
Does your son play video games for hours but avoids picking up a book?
Does he think history is just a bunch of boring old facts?
What if you could give him all the excitement of screen time but also spark his love of reading and history?
You can with these exciting tales of military battles
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Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Harper Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
After their family's cattle farm is attacked in the 1890s Australian Outback, two estranged brothers reunite to attempt to revive the business and are called to testify after a reprisal slaughter is perpetrated against the Kurrong.
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Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the incidents of body snatching and murder in Edinburgh in the nineteenth century, where criminals would commonly sell corpses to the medical community for dissection.
9) Murder at the mission: a frontier killing, its legacy of lies, and the taking of the American West
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry...
10) Windsong Manor
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Language
English
Description
"The London Countryside, 1820. Eleanora Coventry comes from a life of title and privilege, but even that isn't enough to prevent her from being wed at sixteen to a controlling and dismissive husband. So when she finds herself a widow at only twenty-six, the idea of choosing her own path forward both thrills and terrifies her. She knows how to be a daughter and a wife, but she has no idea how to be Eleanora. She moves her son and daughter to her late...
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Series
Lady Whistledown anthologies volume 1
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Harper Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
Offers a collection of romantic stories narrated by the fictional Lady Whistledown, including the tale of Susannah Ballister as she finds herself being pursued by the Earl of Renminster, the brother of her ex-beau.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Marshal John Breaker and his trusted deputy, Bugle, escort a wanted outlaw West for his day in court. When they come across a town defending their gold from an evil gang, they must decide what human price is too high for doing the right thing.
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A cookbook featuring rich soups, juicy roasts, and luscious desserts come to life through historic images and artistic photography. Gilded Age details and entertaining stories of celebrities from the era-the Vanderbilts, Astors, Carnegies, and Rockefellers-are melded with historic menus and recipes updated for modern kitchens"--
Author
Publisher
Greg Kofford Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This thoroughly researched and vivid account examines a murderous spree by one of the West's most notorious outlaw gangs and the consequences for a small Mormon community in Arizona's White Mountains. On March 27, 1900, Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons joined a sheriff's posse to track and arrest five suspected outlaws. The next day, LeSueur and Gibbons, who had become separated from other posse members, were found brutally murdered. The outlaws belonged...
15) The three-cornered war: the Union, the Confederacy, and Native peoples in the fight for the West
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A deeply-researched, dramatic, and character-driven narrative account of the violent struggle between Union and Confederate forces to claim the American West during the Civil War"--
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in England in a desperate search of investors to keep her family business afloat, American Leonora Garrison finds fate leading her to Viscount Wren and torn between desire and duty, risks everything to be in his arms.
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Series
Language
English
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Phoebe Kimball grew up believing in love, but after failing to find a gentleman capable of capturing her heart, she has turned more practical than romantic. She is determined to find a husband in London this Season. If only the annoying Mr. Fenwick would stop appearing every time she sets her cap at someone! When an anonymous letter arrives warning her that her current target is unsuitable marital material, Phoebe begins a relationship with the letter...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
�2010
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Language
English
Description
In 1851, London is in the throes of the industrial revolution. But among the dirty red bricks and smokestacks are four young, thrill-seeking artists: steadfast William Holman Hunt, naive John Millais, mischievous Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and budding journalist Fred Walters, otherwise known as the Brotherhood. Their quest for artistic immortality takes them into some of the lewdest, darkest, and funniest corners of the city.
Author
Series
Unexpected seasons volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1817 England, teenagers Thalia, Charis, and Kallie navigate a London Season gone awry.
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