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When Laura's sister, Carissa, marries her Confederate beau, Laura finds herself in a difficult situation when she overhears plots to kill Union soldiers. Though in her heart she feels she should share this information with Union officer-and-romantic interest Brandon Reid, Laura fears she will betray her sister's trust and possibly endanger her sister's life.
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Calhoun chronicles volume 3
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English
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"Washington, DC, 1870s: At a glittering White House gala, Abigail Cabot discovers the man of her dreams. Only, he's not interested--yet. So the gifted lady astronomer, whose passion for measuring stars has left her woefully lacking in social graces, seeks someone to educate her...someone who is a master at the art of seduction. Jamie Calhoun's handsome looks and easy charm have made him as popular on the Senate floor as he is with the capital's...
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Series
Westward winds trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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The last place Abigail wants to spend the summer of 1885 is Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, but can a handsome lieutenant change her mind?
Author
Series
Luxe series (Anna Godbersen) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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After bidding good-bye to New York's brightest star, Elizabeth Holland, rumors continue to fly about her untimely demise. All eyes are on those closest to the dearly departed: her mischievous sister, Diana, now the family's only hope for redemption; New York's most notorious cad, Henry Schoon-maker, the flame Elizabeth never extinguished; the seductive Penelope Hayes, poised to claim all that her best friend left behind, including Henry; even Elizabeth's...
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Ill-mannered ladies volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. Lady Augusta Colebrook, "Gus," is determinedly unmarried, bored by society life, and tired of being dismissed at the age of forty-two. She and her twin sister, Julia, who is grieving her dead betrothed,...
7) Little women
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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English
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Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
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Remixed classics volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
At the Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island, a haven for the recently emancipated, the four March sisters--Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst--come into their own as independent young Black women together facing love, sickness, heartbreak, and new horizons.
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Hollow kingdom trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In nineteenth-century England, a powerful sorcerer and King of the Goblins chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at their ancestral home, Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen.
Author
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Luxe series (Anna Godbersen) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Two months after Elizabeth Holland's dramatic return to Manhattan she still hasn't reunited with her sister Diana, the newlyweds Henry and Penelope Schoonmaker are the toast of the town but privately despise each other, and the social-climbing heiress Carolina Broad finds both her fortune and her position in danger.
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1814, when their father leaves them in charge of the Scituate lighthouse outside of Boston, two teenaged sisters devise a clever way to avert an attack by a British warship patrolling the Massachusetts coast.
12) The braid
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.
13) Tread of angels
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English
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The year is 1883, and the mining town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity from the high mountains of Colorado with the help of the pariahs of society known as the Fallen. The Fallen are the descendants of demonkind living among the Virtues, the winners in an ancient war, with the descendants of both sides choosing to live alongside Abaddon's mountain in this tale of the mythological...
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Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Emma Brinkman is the most eligible bachelorette in town and staying that way. After learning twice that romance is a lie, she's focused only on making the mine she and her sisters inherited a booming success. To do that, she'll need to put her trust in a notorious scoundrel. But no matter how flirtatious, handsome, or persistent he may be, Emma is interested only in his expertise in coaxing gold from the earth. The illegitimate son of a duke, Beranger...
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Series
Colorado cowgirls volume 2
Publisher
Northern Lights Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Charity Courtney is at her wit's end trying to save her boardinghouse from a bank foreclosure. Short of money but not short of marriage proposals, she dreads putting aside her fairy tale dreams of love and having to settle for a marriage of convenience. But with the need to provide for her two younger sisters, she doesn't have any other options.
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Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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In 1851 London identical twin sisters take turns swapping places over the course of a summer in order to pursue their secret ambitions, but things get out of control when they fall in love with two hansome gentlemen.
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.