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Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In 1879, Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations. When she meets Andrew Gratton, an injured riverboat captain, a friendship grows between them--but will secrets and rising tensions prevent them from finding true happiness?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie lives alone in the mountains of Alaska. Clay is totally focused on his goal of being a missionary like his father-- until he meets a young, independent Indian woman with the most striking blue eyes he's ever seen. Will he be forced to choose between ministering to the natives, and the quiet nudging of his heart?
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's student diaries, chronicling his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London. She discovers that he eventually became the president - some would say the dictator...
11) Wake of vultures
Author
Series
Shadow volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface.
13) Storm riders
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even before the Civil War, a number of slaves escaped bondage and sought sanctuary in the American West. This includes the narrator of Storm Riders, who becomes enmeshed in the life of Waco Joseph Callahan, a.k.a. Brother Wolf, a.k.a. the Comanche Kid. Both the narrator and Waco are born of mixed parentage, which creates a bond between them. When Wacos brothers set out to kill him, they initiate a series of events that climaxes in a full-blown range...
14) Dead of winter
Author
Series
August Snow volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit's Mexican town for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city-block-long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexican town native August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentico Foods. Its owner, Ronaldo Ochoa, is dying, and is being blackmailed into selling the company to an anonymous entity. Worried...
15) Alligator lake
Author
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Avery, a white Southern woman, has raised her racially mixed daugther Celi in Colorado for the past ten years. Now Avery anxiously anticipates reconciling with her family in order to return home for her brother's wedding.
16) Cinnamon baby
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sebastian falls in love with Miriam after smelling her cinnamon bread. They marry and have a beautiful child who won't stop crying. What will make her stop?
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Trapped in the forsaken town of Dead River, where the townsfolk are out for his blood and for his gold, half-breed Yakima Henry, desperate to find a doctor to care for his wounded friend, must weather the oncoming storm, as well as a killer.
18) Dead man's trail
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A mysterious gunman saves Yakima Henry and his partner from attack and dies in the process, leaving behind a large poke of gold. Yakima vows to take the gold to the shooter's family but his way is made difficult by snow and predators, both human and animal.
19) Hide and seek
Author
Series
Animal rescue team volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Carter family's Halloween preparations are complicated by a deer with a pumpkin stuck on its head and a puppy that is part dog, part coyote.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with only a mongrel dog for company.
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