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24641) Dreamer: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Set against the tensions of Civil Rights era America, Dreamer is a remarkable fictional excursion into the last two years of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, when the political and personal pressures on this country's most preeminent moral leader were the greatest. While in Chicago for his first northern campaign against poverty and inequality, King encounters Chaym Smith, whose startling physical resemblance to King wins him the job of official stand-in....
24642) Much ado about murder
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Out of work because of the plague, fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and would-be thespian Symington Smythe become involved in the murder of a wealthy merchant trader by a young craftsman, a situation that inspires a new play.
24643) A viscount's proposal
Author
Series
Publisher
Waterfall Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Leorah Langdon has no patience for Regency society's shallow hypocrisy and unnecessary rules, especially for women. She's determined to defy convention by marrying for grand passion instead of settling for a loveless union like her parents--or wedding a stuffy, pompous gentleman like Edward, the Viscount Withinghall. But when a chance meeting in the countryside leads to Leorah and Withinghall being discovered in his overturned carriage--alone and...
24644) We fly beneath the stars: An utterly heartbreaking and powerful WW2 novel based on a true story
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
202.
Language
English
Description
1942, Europe: Based on the true story of a female-only bomber battalion, this is a totally heartbreaking and unforgettable story about sacrifice, sisterhood and a love that transcends war. When the love of Tasha's life, Luca, joins the air force to fight against the evil Nazi invaders, she knows she has to follow her heart-and him-into battle. Headstrong, impulsive and a daredevil, she's the perfect recruit. Tasha's sensible older sister Nadia...
24645) The way of the warrior
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by his father's suicide, Jimmu secures a position as one of the lord's samurai guards, where he hopes to fulfill his destiny and learn the truth about his father's death."--
24646) Claire's last secret
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"1873, Florence. Claire Clairmont, the last survivor of the 'haunted summer of 1816' Byron/Shelley circle, is living out her final years in genteel poverty, but the appearance of British tourist, William Michael Rossetti, brings hope that she may be able to sell some of her memorabilia to earn enough cash to support her and her niece/companion, Paula. But Rossetti's presence in Florence heralds a cycle of events that links the summer of 1816--when...
24647) Mother to mother
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
An American girl is murdered by blacks in 1993 South Africa while preparing them for democracy. The novel is in the form of a letter to the girl's mother, from the mother of one of the killers, describing the way apartheid brutalized her son. A first novel based on real events by a black South African writer.
24648) Murder at the Met
Author
Series
Publisher
Ink Dog Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"New York, November 1928. No one can keep a secret like high society -- especially when that secret is murder. A month after her cousin's headline making party, Penelope Harris has tried to put the incident behind her. Focused, instead, on restarting her opera career, she is distracted only by the flirtations of handsome former policeman Thom Lund. When two tickets ensure Penelope and Lund get some precious time together at the Metropolitan Opera,...
24649) Under attack
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison and Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"June, 1917. While another daylight air raid batters London, the body of respected businessman and devoted family man Gilbert Donohoe is fished from the Thames, the victim of strangulation. Inspector Marmion struggles with the case alongside his anxieties for his now-missing son, Paul, but the pressure increases when the Metropolitan Police are the target of a series of vicious press attacks. As Marmion is pilloried in the press, he uncovers a seedy...
24650) Murder at the St. Alice
Author
Publisher
Coteau Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Murder, mayhem, mystery--the St. Alice Hotel is shaping up to be more than a summer job for Charlotte. It's 1908, and 16-year-old Charlotte O'Dell is forced to move away from her great Aunt Ginny in Victoria, and live and work at the St. Alice Hotel in order to make enough money to finish school. Her unruly red hair instantly makes her a new friend in Lizzie, though her equally fiery temperament doesn't go over quite as well with her boss, Mrs. Bannerman....
24652) A picture of murder
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell. Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady's maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colourful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture, The Witch's Downfall, is being shown to mark Halloween. But things take a macabre turn when the first night's screening ends with a mysterious murder, and the second night with another......
24653) La guarida del león
Author
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Aristócrata empobrecida Isabella Vernaducci desafiará la misma muerte para rescatar a su hermano encarcelado. Ella incluso valiente el encantada guarida, maldita del león - el palacio amenazante del legendario y letal Don Nicolai DeMarco. Rumor dice el poderoso don puede ordenar a los cielos, que las bestias continuación hacen su voluntad, y que está condenado a destruir a la mujer que toma como su esposa." --
"Impoverished aristocrat Isabella...
24654) Um caminho para a liberdade
Author
Publisher
Intrínseca
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient...
24658) The last word
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 1861 London, eighteen-year-old Lucinda Leavitt evades plans to find her a suitable husband by enlisting the help of childhood friend David to seek the ending of her favorite author's last, unfinished book." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning, critically acclaimed author Terrence McCauley has drawn comparisons to Elmore Leonard for his skilled writing of traditional historical Westerns with a crime fiction soul. Now be brings his signature historical accuracy, three-dimensional characters, and non-stop, adrenaline-fueled action to the first in a brand new series featuring Jeremiah Halstead. He may be the newest Deputy Marshal in the Montana Territory, but it doesn't take...
24660) A Paramount kill
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"Mystery writer Raymond Chandler, creator of private investigator Philip Marlowe, finds himself heading his own one-man investigation in this wry comic-mystery set in 1945 Hollywood. Chandler is laboring over the script for the movie The Blue Dahlia, and chronically at odds with co-worker Billy Wilder, when he succumbs to the suggestion of gag writer Corky McGrath and plays a macabre practical joke on Wilder. Events turn serious when Chandler discovers...
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