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61) Silk and song
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In Beijing, 1322 Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father's death, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan. Johanna's destiny--if she has one--lies with her grandfather, in Venice. So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road--the Silk Road--that storied collection of routes that link the silks of Cathay, the spices of...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4, Eliza has taken over the business of Nash & Sons (not that he has any sons) and things are not going entirely smoothly, although help comes from some familiar sources. Outside of work, her relationship with William 'The Duke' Wellington builds towards a looming decision that will shape both their lives.
Author
Series
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 31
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
"Gripping and provocative, the latest Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry peers unflinchingly into the corrupt affairs of Victorian society on the brink of the century's turn. The world is poised for social and political change, but England holds tight to its traditions, classes, and prejudices. When an explosion in London kills two policemen and seriously injures three more, many believe that anarchists...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The second volume of a comprehensive companion guide to each book in the "Outlander" series includes a complete chronology of the series, a guide to research sources, a Scottish glossary and pronunciation guide, and photos from the set of the "Outlander" TV series.
65) Undisclosed
Author
Publisher
A & M Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A veteran of the Iraq war is appointed Under Secretary of Defense in order to penetrate a secret government purposely black-shelving zero-point-energy, a clean, abundant energy source reverse-engineered from downed UFOs. Are Extraterrestrials and UFOs real? Are there secret subterranean military bases hiding advanced technologies that date back to the incident at Roswell? Is there a False Flag in the works intended to wipe out billions? Steve Alten's...
66) Adam Bede
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Adam Bede, an honest, hard-working carpenter, has his heart set on marrying his sweetheart, pretty dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. Hetty wants nothing to do with her boring life on the farm and she allows herself to be seduced by the heir to a local estate. She finds herself abandoned and pregnant from her ill-fated dalliance.
69) Rashomon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
71) River
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A woman in a canoe takes the reader on a journey down the Hudson River, from its source, a lake in the Adirondack Mountains, to the point where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean at New York City. Includes a note on the history of the Hudson River.
Author
Series
Luke Ransom man of the mountains volume 1
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one-hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River -- the longest in North America -- all the way to its source. They would hunt and trap furs for one, two, or three years. Along the way, they would face unimaginable hardships: grueling weather, wild animals, hunger, exhaustion, and hostile...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
75) Sources of light
Author
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sam, having moved with her mother to Jackson, Mississippi, after the death of her father, finds the conservative 1960s values of the town clashing with her family's liberal views and struggles to navigate difficult relationships and understand segregation.
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Loki and Amora cause the destruction of one of Asgard's most prized possessions, Amora is banished to Earth, where her powers will slowly and excruciatingly fade to nothing. She was the only person who ever looked at Loki's magic as a gift instead of a threat; without her, he slips further into anguish and the shadow of his universally adored brother, Thor. When Asgardian magic is detected in relation to a string of murders on Earth, Odin sends...
Author
Series
Martha Patterson novel volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When a former colleague offers Martha Patterson a job as a pro-bono lawyer, she looks forward to resuming her career. On her first day of work, she meets Wilma Oberfell, a woman with a history of psychiatric problems who tells her, I dont know whom I can trust. The next day Martha sees Wilma lurking outside her apartment building. When Wilma is later found strangled, Martha finds herself in the middle of a tenants association dispute thats turned...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ranger the time-travelling Golden retriever and young Isaac Pope come together in 1776 during Washington's retreat after the Battle of Long Island, and Ranger stays with Isaac while he slowly recovers from Smallpox--but Ranger's real mission comes later when Isaac is sent to spy out the Hessian troops' intentions before the Battle of Trenton.
79) Blindness
Author
Series
Blindness novel volume 1
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
"A city is struck by an epidemic of "white blindness." The first man to succumb sits in his car, waiting for the light to change. He is taken to an eye doctor, who does not know what to make of the phenomenon - and soon goes blind himself." "The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape. Inside, the criminal element among...
80) Cleopatra
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Formats
Description
The epic saga of legendary Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and her attempt to stabilize her power and gain control of the Roman Empire. When Caesar visits Egypt, Cleopatra gains control by ousting her brother with his help. She marries Caesar, and bears him the son fate had previously denied him. Joining him in Rome--to ensure that the boy takes his rightful place after his father--her plans are thwarted when Caesar is assassinated and she must flee....
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