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2) Bluebird
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2022.
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Present Day: When a cache of whisky is unearthed during a home renovation, aspiring museum curator Cassie Simmons stumbles upon a century-old mystery about a legendary family of rumrunners who ferried illegal booze across the Detroit River during Prohibition.
1918: Corporal Jeremiah " Jerry" Bailey of the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company is tasked with planting mines in the tunnels beneath enemy trenches. After Jerry is badly wounded in an explosion,...
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"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
6) Quicksilver
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Baroque cycle (Neal Stephenson) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
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The exploits of an alchemy-rejecting scientist, a vagabond leader, and a former Turkish harem prisoner intersect in the world of the American colonies, the Tower of London, and the courts of Louis XIV.
7) River lady
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James River trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[1985]
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In eighteenth-century Virginia, despite her poverty Leah Simmons struggles to achieve her dream of marriage to Wesley Stanford and follows him into his new life in Kentucky.
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Woodbridge Trilogy volume Bk. 3
Pub. Date
2021
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Captain Tom Woods, an escapee from Blacksburg, is on leave from serving under Colonel George Washington at Loyal Hannon. As he passes through Quaker country, a desperate little boy bursts out of a cornfield beseeching him for help. Following the child into the woods, he finds a Quaker woman who has clearly been foully used. With his caretaker heart, he cannot abandon her.
Elizabeth Walker, having followed God all her life, naively believed nothing...
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Woodbridge trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
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Megan Forrester is a woman bent on taking over her father's far-reaching business ventures in the Carolinas. However, he will never agree as she is merely a woman. He would have her marry the man he has chosen and forget her foolish notions.Megan's identical twin sister married and her husband has moved Margaret and their daughter to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Since then, all communication has ceased. Recognizing the evil in Jordan Higgins, Megan...
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