Justine Eyre
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When their humiliated father, an ex-army Colonel, severs their access to the family fortune, Maddie and Ellis Hyde travel to war-torn Scotland, where colorblind Ellis plans to find the Loch Ness monster his father failed to locate, hoping to win his father's approval once more. Meanwhile, Maddie embraces her true identity. Society awakens the true woman within as Hitler's war rages.
2) Evil genius
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Stella West's artistic talent made her the toast of London, but when her beloved sister dies under mysterious circumstances, she abandons everything, heads for Boston, and tries to pierce the ring of secrecy surrounding her sister's death. When she meets Romulus White, a publisher with innumerable connections, she decides he could be a valuable ally. He decides to help her as a means to induce her to create art for his magazine. Neither one is prepared...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nirrim endures a grim and punishing life as a Half Caste until she encounters Sid, a rakish traveler from far away who whispers rumors that the High Caste possess magic and tempts Nirrim to seek that magic for herself.
Life in the Ward is grim and punishing. People of Nirrim's low status either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences. Nirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest. She meets Sid, a rakish...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Skye O'Malley's magnificent daughter Velvet embarks on her own adventures in this sensuous bestseller.
Velvet de Marisco is the daughter of one of fiction's most beloved heroines, the hot-blooded adventuress, Skye O'Malley.
Now, in this journey into pure sensual delight by Bertrice Small, Velvet proves she's every inch her mother's daughter.
When Alexander Gordon arrives from the Scottish Highlands to claim Velvet as his bride, he...
Velvet de Marisco is the daughter of one of fiction's most beloved heroines, the hot-blooded adventuress, Skye O'Malley.
Now, in this journey into pure sensual delight by Bertrice Small, Velvet proves she's every inch her mother's daughter.
When Alexander Gordon arrives from the Scottish Highlands to claim Velvet as his bride, he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Emily thinks she's lost everything...until a mysterious painting leads her to what she wants most in the world. The new novel from the author of international bestsellers The Sweetness of Forgetting and The Life Intended shows why her books are hailed as "engaging" (People), "absorbing" (Kirkus Reviews) and "enthralling" (Fresh Fiction). Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad ran out on the family when she was a just a kid, her mom died when...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hazel Stillman is a woman of rare independence and limited opportunities. Born with a clubbed foot, she was sent away as a child and, knowing her disability means a marriage is unlikely, she devoted herself to scholarship and education. Now working as a teacher in an elite private girls' school, she is content with the way her story has unfolded. When her uncle Elliott Mayfield presents her with the prospect of a substantial inheritance if she marries,...
9) The invited
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In 1924, a young mother, Hattie Breckenridge, is hanged from a tree in her yard by the town mob, accused of a crime that was actually committed by her daughter. Nearly a century later, a young married couple, Helen and Nate abandon the comforts of suburbia to begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams on the same forty-four acres of rural land where Hattie once lived. When they discover that this charming...