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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent Newport family: for thirteen years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker. Unable to marry the black woman he loved,...
2) Masquerade
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
1886, New York City: Charlotte Gleason, a rich heiress from England, escapes a family crisis by traveling to America in order to marry the even wealthier Conrad Tremaine. She soon decides that an arranged marriage is not for her and persuades her maid, Dora, to take her place. What begins as the whim of a spoiled rich girl wanting adventure becomes a test of survival amid poverty beyond Charlotte's blackest nightmares. As for Dora, she lives a fairy...
Author
Series
Luxe series (Anna Godbersen) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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...
4) The Luxe
Author
Series
Luxe series (Anna Godbersen) volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives, despite the strict rules of society and the best-laid plans of parents and others.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One morning in March 1888, twelve-year-old Milton Daub awoke to find the world buried in snow. The blizzard was like nothing Milton and his neighbors in the Bronx had ever seen. No one dared go out into the storm. No one, that is, except Milton. He and his father made a pair of snowshoes from barrel hoops and old roller skates. Then Milton stepped bravely into the storm to buy milk for his family. Soon he was buying supplies for everyone in the area....