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Author: Ann Rinaldi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1993-11-30
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 054735116X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Carefully researched and lovingly written, Rinaldi’s latest presents a girl indentured to John and Abigail Adams during the tense period surrounding the 1770 Massacre. . . . Fortuitously timed, a novel that illuminates a moment from our past that has strong parallels to recent events. Bibliography.”—Kirkus Reviews
Author: Andrew Keith
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1614753970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An uprising from an alien species threatens a futuristic foreign legion in this military sci-fi. As the Terran Commonwealth expanded the borders of the interstellar territories it controlled, a waning alien race was forced to yield much of their once glorious star empire. But they had never been fully conquered, and they would never cease trying to undermine the Commonwealth’s power. When Commonweath diplomats and the command officers of the Terran Fifth Foreign Legion gathered in the alien capital city to meet with a local ruler, no one suspected the trap they were walking into. As assassins attacked the diplomatic party, native forces struck the fortress of the Fifth Foreign Legion, which was still under construction and not yet secure. The ranking surviving officer from the fort has to lead his troops on an impossible march through the heart of enemy territory, fighting every step of the way in a last-ditch effort to reach the main base . . . or die in the attempt.
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0307428575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.
Author: Rhonda Noonan
Publisher:
Published: 2013-03
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780988659704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In a family memoir that reads like a detective novel, Rhonda Noonan recounts her thirty-year quest to find the truth of her own background ... Her father was none other than Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston Churchill. The State Department of Human Services and the FBI laid down an intricate cover-up, with Averell Harriman and President Truman on the periphery. The evidence was clear - there was no question in her mind (though her efforts to secure incontrovertible proof in the form of a DNA test were stymied by the Churchill family). Rhonda had gone about finding her heritage just as her paternal grandfather had conducted his military campaigns: relentlessly and with no small amount of courage" --p. [4], Cover.
Author: Scott O'Dell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006-09-04
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 0547349688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Newbery Honor Book: A “stunning” historical novel of a teenager’s journey from Spain to the New World in search of gold (Kirkus Reviews). Mapmaker Esteban de Sandoval is only seventeen years old, but he has experienced much adventure, traveling to the New World to hunt for gold with the Conquistadors. Whatever treasure they find, they were expected to give one-fifth of it to the king. But Esteban is accused of withholding the king’s fifth—and of murder. As he waits for his trial to begin, he recalls the experience of his journey: the men he sailed with, the young Native American girl who guided him—and the ways that it changed him—in this remarkable novel about Spanish colonialism by the author of such classics as Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Author: Karen Robards
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 148808873X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With her back against the wall, everything’s on the line for Bianca St. Ives. She’s either going to save the world—or die trying. It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it’s far from the capture she expected. Instead of taking her in, there’s an offer on the table, a one-shot deal that would allow Bianca to walk away scot-free as if they’d never found her. And all she has to do is run one last mission—the kind she might never return from. But if Bianca wants to go back to her normal life in Savannah, it’s not like she has a choice. An intelligence operation is already under way in North Korea, one that’s poised to end the country’s existing tyrannical regime for good. But first, the US need one of their own to go undercover as the female hacker who recently stole top secret intel from NORAD. Enter Bianca. After everything she’s seen, Bianca knows feeding fake information directly into the belly of the beast is about as dangerous as it gets. It could mean torture or endless imprisonment—assuming she survives. But it might also ignite the kind of chaos that forces a revolution. It might just change the world. Besides, if Bianca has to go down, she’s gonna go down swinging…
Author: Ian Caldwell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-02-23
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1501131966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A Catholic priest must place his family at risk to solve the death of a Vatican curator" -- back cover.
Author: Roland Perry
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steven M. LaBarre
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-07-19
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1476623422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In January 1863, a long-anticipated military order arrived on the desk of Massachusetts Governor John Andrew. President Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, had granted the governor authority to raise regiments of black soldiers. Two units--the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry--were soon mustered and in December, Andrew issued General Order No. 44, announcing "a Regiment of Cavalry Volunteers, to be composed of men of color...is now in the process of recruitment in the Commonwealth." Drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs and official reports, this book provides the first full-length regimental history of the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry--its organization, participation in the Petersburg campaign and the guarding of prisoners at Point Lookout, Maryland, and its triumphant ride into Richmond. Accounts of the postwar lives of many of the men are included.
Author: Margaret Helms
Publisher: Blue Feather Books
Published: 2007-03-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780977031870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Claire Blevins is approaching her 40th birthday, and is on her own for the first time in her adult life. She muddles through daily routines, her only respite coming in the form of a harmless crush on Rebecca Greenway. When Rebecca shows signs of interest, Claires past unravels, revealing an immeasurable love and a dark secret.
