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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of The Absence of Mercy, comes a gripping and darkly psychological novel about family, suspicion, and the price we are willing to pay to protect those we love the most. It's the summer of 1954 and the residents of Cottonwood, California are dying. At the center of it all is six-year-old Danny McCray, a strange and silent child the townspeople regard with fear and superstition, and who appears to bring ruin to those around...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
"Spanning more than sixty years from the Civil War to the early 1920s, and moving from the battlefields of the South to New York City, through Paris, London, Constantinople, and Coney Island, [this novel] features Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, an improvisational pianist who believes his music is sometimes inspired by the spirit world. He is in love with Isaac Kemp, an ex-slave who only sporadically returns his affections and who himself...
Author
Publisher
Alyson Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In Patti Frazee's astonishing debut novel, enchantment and illusion casually commingle with reality as the Borefsky Brothers Circus makes its way across the American Midwest in the summer of 1900.Mariana, the fortune teller, makes herself invisible and drifts through the nighttime circus, listening in on conversations and watching over her beloved Shanghai, a fire-breathing dwarf who closely guards his secrets, even from Mariana's second sight. Conjoined...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1974, c1959
Language
English
Description
A WWII soldier embarks on affairs with two very different men in a landmark novel that “transcends categorizations” (The Telegraph).
After being wounded at Dunkirk in World War II, Laurie Odell is sent back home to a rural British hospital. Standing out among the orderlies is Andrew, a bright conscientious objector raised as a Quaker. The unspoken romance between the two men is tested when Ralph, a friend...
After being wounded at Dunkirk in World War II, Laurie Odell is sent back home to a rural British hospital. Standing out among the orderlies is Andrew, a bright conscientious objector raised as a Quaker. The unspoken romance between the two men is tested when Ralph, a friend...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In Argentina, Anglo teacher Richard Garay is recruited as a spy by the Americans and gradually comes to the conclusion he has sold his soul. A study of homosexuality in a country which disapproves of it and a look at what it meant to be of English origin at the time of the 1982 war between England and Argentina. By the author of The Heather Blazing
Author
Series
Legend of the golden feather volume 5
Publisher
Golden Feather Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Pub
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A novelization of the life of the 16th Century playwright, Christopher Marlowe, portraying him as a spy for Elizabeth I's government in its war with Catholics. Lots of color on Elizabethan London, the court, the intrigues, the theater, the slums. The author's last book before his death, it comes 30 years after his Nothing Like the Sun, a novel on Shakespeare.
10) The long trail
Author
Publisher
Naiad Press
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
School teacher Blanche Bartholomew and dance hall girl Teresa Stark, living in Texas in 1869, discover a forbidden love and flee together, attempting to cross the Texas prairie in a covered wagon.
Author
Publisher
Intaglio Publications
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Travel through history with the O'Malley women, from the 14th century and Branna O'Malley, the Irish Barbarian, to the 1820s and sail the Jamaica Winds with Quinlan Stoddard, and finally to Seana Riordan, fighting for her love and country during the weeks before the invasion of Normandy during WWII in Twilight's Own. Though vastly different in time and generations, the fiercely loyal, independent blood that courses through their veins connects these...
12) Full circle
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
History professor Ned Brummel is living happily with his partner of twelve years in small-town Maine, when he receives a phone call from his estranged friend, Jack, telling him that another friend, Andy, is very ill and possibly near death. As Ned boards a plane to Chicago on his way to his friend's bedside, he embarks on another journey into memory, examining the major events and small moments that have shaped his world and his relationships with...
Author
Publisher
Airlift (distributor)
Pub. Date
2001, ©1998
Language
English
Description
Since her ex-lover left her hurt and humiliated, carpenter Kasey Hollander has been determined to play it safe. Owner of a successful renovation company, she hires accountant Connie Bradford - who has just ended a relationship with her boyfriend - to do the books. And the two hit it off!
14) Dusty answer
Author
Publisher
H. Holt and company
Pub. Date
[1927]
Language
English
Description
Lehmann's first novel, Dusty Answer , published in 1927, delves into a young woman's life and mind in an emotional coming-of-age story. It also explores the then taboo theme of homosexuality. Judith Earle grows up in rural England with mostly indifferent parents who homeschool her.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A sprawling novel of gay and lesbian life in America, tracing its evolution from the closets of the 1940s to New York City's gay pride parade in 1991 and aids. Featuring dozens of characters and locations, the novel mixes the poignant with the comic. By the author of I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore.
16) Hot valley
Author
Publisher
Cleis
Pub. Date
[2007], ©2007
Language
English
Description
Move over, Scarlett O’Hara! It’s New England, 1861, and the troubles in the southern states seem a long way off for Jack Edgerton, the spoiled son of a prominent Vermont family. Howver, when he meets and falls in love with Aaron Johnson, the sexy son of a slave on the run from Virginia, Edgerton’s world is turned upside down. Separated by circumstances, the lovers pursue each other through the escalating madness of the Civil War and both find...
17) Was: a novel
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
An account of the life and times of Dorothy Gael with, along the way, details about Judy Garland's stunted childhood and unhappy fame and her definitive role as Dorthy in L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz.
19) Pembroke Park
Author
Publisher
Naiad Press
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
When Lady Joanna Sinclair meets Lady Diana March, on horseback and clad in male attire, she is outraged by such bizarre and unacceptable behavior. Still, she is irresistibly drawn to the headstrong Diana, under whose influence she asserts her independence from her arrogant and overbearing brother, Hugo. But in England's regency period, to love one's own sex was a risk taken only by the most daring.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairy maid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember--after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work in the bustling naval port of Harwich, as a lady's maid to a wealthy captain's daughter, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. There she meets Rebecca, her haughty young mistress, who is unlike anyone Louise has encountered...