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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
4) The last book on the left: stories of murder and mayhem from history's most notorious serial killers
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Since its first show in 2010, The Last Podcast on the Left has barreled headlong into all things horror, as hosts Henry Zebrowski, Ben Kissel, and Marcus Parks cover subjects spanning Jeffrey Dahmer, werewolves, Jonestown, and supernatural phenomena. Deeply researched but with a morbidly humorous bent, the podcast has earned a dedicated and aptly cultlike following for its unique take on all things macabre. In their first book, the guys take a deep...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner--his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087....
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 4
Language
English
Description
Mazelina of Wexcombe has always dreamed of traveling with her father to lands beyond the confining walls of their castle. But his sudden death deprives her of the future she imagined. Abandoned by her eldest brother, Mazy is soon forced to seek help from her beloved brother Sir John at the great estate of Strachleigh. Her visit leads to a friendship with the dashing and noble Sir Berenger of Dericott. He has notions of rescuing a damsel in distress....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years -- a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II -- an experience Eva remembers well -- and the search to reunite...
9) Eternal
Author
Language
English
Description
"Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937,...
10) Castle of refuge
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
To live an unforgettable life, she would defy all expectations--including her own. Ever since she was a child, Audrey wanted her life to be extraordinary. But as the daughter of a viscount born in late fourteenth-century England, the only thing expected of her was to marry--until an act of malice by her sister, Maris, four years ago damaged her prospects even further. Though Maris was sent away, twenty-year-old Audrey is still suffering the scars...
11) Blood infernal
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As an escalating scourge of grisly murders sweeps the globe, archaeologist Erin Granger must decipher the truth behind an immortal prophecy, one found in the Blood Gospel, a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries. With the Apocalypse looming, Erin must again join forces with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and Father Rhun Korza to search for a treasure lost for millennia, a prize that already has fallen itno the hands of the enemy.
Author
Series
Daughters of the promised land volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The breathtaking story of the prostitute who risked everything to protect two Israelite spies before the battle of Jericho. --Provided by Publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Julian's Grandmére's childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II and how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
14) A night divided
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.
Publisher
Underdog Games
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
You're about to go on a 3-day tour of history, traveling thousands of years in a time machine to experience great moments from our past. Each day, you'll visit a series of historical events, spending a different number of hours at each. Along the way, you'll score points by sticking to your travel itinerary, and visiting dates in chronological order.
16) Lady of disguise
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
All her life, Louisa has dreamed of finding the rumored “Giant’s Treasure,” a collection of ancient, lost riches said to be hidden on a mountaintop in Scotland, guarded by a fierce monster. It’s a story her father used to tell her, and when he dies and she and her younger sister have to go live with their shiftless, greedy uncle, Louisa is determined to find that treasure.
17) Among wolves
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Villains afoul of two religious ladies are forced to go on the run and find themselves under the wing of two morally gray outlaws who ferry them to safety.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the strange...
19) Love takes wing
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Dr. Belinda Davis leaves the prairie for Boston.
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