Working in the ER, Dr. Marie Lavant sees the darkest side of New Orleans. But the bloody wounds of patients are not the only things that haunt her. As the descendent of a legendary voodoo queen,...
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Author: Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSummary:Genre: Historical fiction
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Author: Heartfield, KateSummary:
1768. Charlotte, daughter of the Habsburg Empress, arrives in Naples to marry a man she has never met. Her sister Antoine is sent to France, and in the mirrored corridors of Versailles they rename...
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Author: Foran, Timothy P.Summary:
"Defining Métis" examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues...
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Author: O'Faolain, NualaSummary:
Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May. O'Faolain uses May's autobiography, primary sources from the turn...
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Author: King, Laurie R.Summary:
Presents a young woman who manages to apprentice herself to the retired Scotland Yard master himself, Sherlock Holmes.
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Author: Simons, JosephSummary:
Mary is certain that her parents are giving her new shoes for Christmas, but the Depression has hit her Saskatchewan farming family hard. Mary tries to hide her disappointment when she receives a...
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Author: Schäffer, Mary T.S.Summary:
“We seemed to have reached that horizon, and the limit of all endurance, to sit with folded hands and listen calmly to the stories of the hills we so longed to see, the hills which had lured and...
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Author: Gould, LeslieSummary:
For years Marie Bachmann thought of herself as the "good" daughter. She was the most loving to their mother, the most dedicated to their Amish way of life. But when a Mennonite farmhand...
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Author: McGregor, FionaSummary:
A novel about connections in a changing world of friends, lovers, family, illness, and death, this unique narrative tells the story of Marie King--a 59-year-old divorcée from Sydney's affluent...
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Author: George, AnneSummary:
Retired Alabama school teacher Patricia Anne thinks her older sister, flamboyant Mary Alice, has lost her cotton-pickin' mind. On a whim, Mary Alice bought the Skoot 'n' Boot, the local country...
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Author: Foster, LoriSummary:
''I rescued you on this island . and you rescued me right back." Ben Logan never asks anyone for help. Until, during a deadly hurricane, he's washed up on a deserted island....
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Author: Lambert, AnnSummary:
As winter approaches a small village in the Laurentians, north of Montreal, a reclusive older woman is found strangled outside her home. Roméo Leduc, the enigmatic Chief Inspector for Homicide, is...
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Author: LeZotte, Ann ClareSummary:
Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, over a...
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Author: King, Laurie R.Summary:
Haunted by her dreams, Mary Russell arrives in San Francisco in 1924 to settle her parents' estate. But she quickly encounters a few surprises and learns there may be a great deal more to her...
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Author: Healy, SarahSummary:
A gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother's death and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young chargeThe hardscrabble Chase...