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Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1889. Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love. In the City of Lights, she intends to expand the rum business her family built over three generations, but buyers and shippers alike can't imagine doing business with a woman...never mind a woman of color. This, paired with being denied access to her inheritance unless...
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
321 p.
Language
English
Description
The Martha years series, bk. 3. In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
189 p.
Language
English
Description
The Martha years series, bk. 4. Ten-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, experiences the larger world outside of tiny Glencaraid, Scotland, when she goes to visit her married sister in Perth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widowed and forced to remarry in three years' time or forfeit her son's inheritance, Daisy Bristol, Lady Chatwick, has plenty of suitors vying for her hand -- and her fortune. But a letter from a long-lost love sends Daisy and her young son to her Scottish Highland estate to buy time for his return. Along the way she encounters the powerful Cailean Mackenzie, laird of Arrandale and a notorious smuggler, and she is utterly -- though unwillingly --...
127) Grace under fire
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Navy SEAL will need every bit of his extensive skill set when he appoints himself as bodyguard to a woman determined not to need one in this thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood. Isabel Grace MacKenna had a hundred things to do today. Killing someone wasn't one of them. It was supposed to just be a quick visit to Boston for the Buchanans' anniversary party. But after getting lost, she ends up with a wounded...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scottish Highlander Jamie Fraser, made aware by his time-traveling wife Claire of the outcome of the impending American Revolution, and living under the shadow of a newspaper clipping from the future that reports the deaths of him and his family, faces a dilemma when the colonial governor of North Carolina asks him to secure the region for King and Crown.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"United in sisterhood by birth and marriage, Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England; Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots; and Mary Tudor, Queen of France immediately recognize each other as both allies and rivals in the treacherous world of court and national politics. Their bonds extend beyond natural and expeditious loyalties, as romance, scandal, war, and religion inextricably unite these three for better or for worse"-- Adapted from Booklist.
130) Poor things
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices...