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Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
London, 1938. The effervescent "It girl" of London society since her father was named the ambassador, Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy moves in rarified circles, rubbing satin-covered elbows with some of the 20th century's most powerful figures. Eager to escape the watchful eye of her strict mother, Rose, the antics of her older brothers, Jack and Joe, and the erratic behavior of her sister Rosemary, Kick is ready to strike out on her own and is soon swept...
Author
Publisher
GraphicAudio, a division of The Cutting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"William Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone take on the deadliest and most feared outlaw to ever walk the Old West--John Wesley Hardin... He was 15 when he killed his first man. Before his murderous ways ended, Hardin killed 42 men in cold blood--one, the legend goes, because he snored too loudly. From then on John Wesley Hardin stayed true to his calling, killing man after man after man, spending most of his life being pursued by both local lawmen and...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 32
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack and Annie are whisked back in time by the magic tree house to meet Benjamin Franklin in Old Philadelphia"--
324) Learned by heart
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen"--
326) Juba!: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged retail edition.
Language
English
Description
An engaging historical novel based on the true story of the meteoric rise of an immensely talented young black dancer, William Henry Lane, who influenced today's tap, jazz, and step dancing. With meticulous and intensive research, Walter Dean Myers has brought to life Juba's story.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A richly imagined novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family by the #1 International bestselling-author of Miss Austen.
On January 21, 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. At thirty-one years old, she has no previous experience of either teaching or fine country houses. Her mother has died, and she has nowhere else to go. Anne...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight across the Atlantic, his father, Charles, Sr., is the country's golden boy, with his wealthy, lovely wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, by his side. But there's someone else in their household-Betty Gow, a formerly obscure young woman, now known around the world...
329) Escape from Syria
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers - all to find safety in the West."--
Author
Series
Ladies in waiting (Sandra Byrd) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed author of To Die For comes a stirring novel told that sheds new light on Elizabeth I and her court.
Like Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, Sandra Byrd has attracted countless fans for evoking the complexity, grandeur, and brutality of the Tudor period. In her latest tour de force, she poses the question: What happens when serving a queen may cost you your marriage--or your life? In 1565, seventeen-year-old Elin von Snakenborg leaves...
331) Helen of Troy
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
Married at a tender age to the Spartan king Menelaus, the beautiful Helen bears him a daughter and anticipates a passionless marriage before falling in love with the Trojan prince Paris, with whom she flees to Troy, with devastating consequences.
332) My contrary Mary
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and ... queens? Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she's a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is a shapeshifter in a kingdom where Verities rule. It's a secret that could cost her a head--or a tail. Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis. But things at the gilded court take a treacherous turn after the king...
333) The maniac
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas"--
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A Paperback Original
A big, juicy biopic novel by the author of Mademoiselle Chanel about the scandalous life of Jennie Jerome Churchill, mother of Winston, an heiress from New York who married into one of England's most storied families, but who always lived life on her own terms, as a royal mistress with a series of younger husbands and a son whose political rise she happily stage-managed.
Daughter of famed financier Leonard Jerome, Jennie was...
335) Eighth shepherd
Author
Series
A.D. chronicles volume 8
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three figures, Zachai, the chief tax collector in Jericho, Shimona, a leper from the Valley of Mak'ob, and Salmon, a former prince of the Nubian tribes who was betrayed and sold into slavery, turn to the Good Shepherd known as Yeshua for salvation.
Author
Series
Wars of the Roses volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Winter 1461--Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Yet in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed the sons. Edward of March, now Duke of York, proclaims...
337) The gates of Athens
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon ... Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army--swollen by 10,000 warriors known as The Immortals--have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, stands an army of freeborn Athenians. Among them is a clever, fearsome, and cunning soldier-statesman, Xanthippus. Against all odds, the Athenians emerge victorious. Yet people soon forget that...
338) The Winthrop woman
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. Against a background of rigidity and conformity she dared to befriend Anne Hutchinson at the moment of her banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; dared to challenge a determined army captain bent on the massacre of her friends the Siwanoy Indians; and, above all, dared to love a man as her heart and her whole being commanded. And so, as a response...
339) Second touch
Author
Series
A.D. chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lily, cast out from her family and village as a leper six years earlier, has taken refuge in the leper colony in the Valley of Mak'ob where she and her friends long for the appearance of the Messiah, but their courage is tested when rumors reach them that the miracle healer is now walking the Earth.
340) Jackie & me
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
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