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1) Brionne
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English
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Major James Brionne brought Dave Allard to trial for murder. Just before the hanging, Dave swore his brothers would take vengenance. . .Four year later the Allard boys retumed to settle the score. Only Brionne's son escaped. They murdered his wife, destroyed his home, and left Brionne nothing but the charred ruins of his past to haunt him. Seeking peace and a new life, Brionne and the boy headed west. But the Allards hadn't finished with him. He knew...
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Series
The Broadmoor legacy volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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An arranged marriage, to someone she doesn't know, is being forced on Amanda. Can she believe her mother's words. Is it possible they may eventually love each other?
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English
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So many men, so little time...New York City, 1894. Heiress Caroline Maxwell would like nothing more than to join her brother and his friend, Jack Culhane, on their adventures. While they are off seeing the world, shes stuck at home, frightening off the list of men her mother hopes will ask for her hand in marriage. Caroline longs for adventure, passion, love, and most of all...Jack Culhane, an unconventional Irish-American bachelor with new money...
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English
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British born Emmaline Bradford pledged her life to Geoffrey Garrett and then bid him farewell when he sailed to America. Although Geoffrey anticipated a short separation, several years passed before he was able to send for Emmaline. But by then, the fiery flame of her youthful passion had burned down. Emmaline is shocked by the conditions on Geoffrey's Kansas sheep ranch, and wishes to return to England immediately. Crestfallen, Geoffrey offers a...
5) The Lawless
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English
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This seventh volume of The Kent Family Chronicles follows the lives of family members during the last half of the nineteenth century.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
Author
Series
The Broadmoor legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Fanny and her cousins find their friendship tested by their grandfather's bequest. With her nefarious Uncle Jonas now her guardian, Fanny struggles to keep all that's rightfully hers - including a love that's true.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After his departure from New York two years ago to meet up with his almost-fiancé, Zayne Beckett is the last person Agatha Watson wanted to stumble upon in her travels as a reporter with the New York Tribune. Pathetically bedraggled, he clearly needs to be taken in hand and sent back East -- and Agatha realizes she'll have to be the one to get the obstinate man home. Once they arrive, Zayne sets out to repay Agatha's help with some of his own.
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Series
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
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English
Description
Book 2 of Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance. Cheney and Shiloh Irons-Winslow return to New York from their honeymoon and enthusiastically begin workShiloh at Winslow Brothers Shipping and Cheney in her medical career. But their tranquility is shattered when Cheney discovers that a young doctor she hired as an assistant hides a scandal in his past and possibly murder in his heart! Danger and plot twists abound as the Morrises pen yet another thrilling...
11) City of orphans
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
12) Always a witch
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Haunted by her grandmother's prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a terrible decision, witch Tamsin Greene risks everything to travel back in time to 1887 New York to confront the enemy that wants to destroy her family.
13) 1876: a novel
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Series
American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
On a desperate quest to find her father, a missing business tycoon, Ana, a beautiful heiress, ventures into the lush wilderness of the tropical rain forest, accompanied by rugged Brad Eliot, a handsome American working to save the endangered rain forests.
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English
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"New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night-soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island sideshow. But the Church has burnt to the ground, their...
15) Time and again
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
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English
Description
"Simon Morley moves into the Dakota apartments and returns to the year 1882 under hypnosis, where he falls in love and refuses to change records for the government agency controlling his experiment."--NoveList Plus.
17) The Broken Lands
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"Set in the seedy underworld of nineteenth-century Coney Island during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, two orphans are determined to stop evil forces from claiming the city of New York"--
18) Heaven and Hell
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English
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The saga of the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina continues into the turbelent decade following the Civil War. And as the growing country struggles to unite vengeful victor and plundered loser, the survivors of the two families try to keep the faith
Continues the saga of two American families, the Mains of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania, in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
In 1888 New York City, sixteen-year-old governess Verity Newton agrees to become a spy, whatever the risk, after learning that the man for whom she has feelings sympathizes with rebels developing non-magical sources of power, via steam engines, in hopes of gaining freedom from British rule.
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Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
1992, c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves.