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Lion in the Valley - Elizabeth Peters
SUMMARY:The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son R... -
Lightning Man_ The Accursed Lif - Kenneth Silverman
From Publishers WeeklyThe New York Herald may have eulogized the inventor of the telegraph in 1872 as "perhaps the most illustrious American of his age," but Samuel Morse may have ... -
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain; Bill Mckibben
ReviewMemoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from it... -
Krakatoa_ The Day the World Exp - Simon Winchester
SUMMARY:Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, w... -
Kiss My Tiara - Susan Jane Gilman
Kiss My Tiara challenges The Rules and backlash books like In Defense of Modesty. Designed to help women 18-35 catch a life, not a husband, it's funny and politically irreverent, w... -
Junie B., first grader (at last - Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus
Amazon.com ReviewIt had to happen. The spunkiest sass mouth in room 9 finally B. I think I have mentioned that to you before... B., B., B., B., B.")The 18th installment in ... -
Journey to the Heart of Luna - Andy Frankham-Allen
Product DescriptionUntreed Reads is proud to present SPACE: 1889 & BEYOND, a brand-new series of books based on the award-winning steampunk role-playing game created by Frank Chadw... -
How Few Remain - Harry Turtledove
From Library JournalIn 1862, the Confederacy won the War of the Rebellion (not by interference of time travelers, as in Turtledove's Guns of the South, LJ 9/1/92, but by their own ... -
Hot Time in the Old Town - Edward Kohn
One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presi... -
Hope - Lesley Pearse
SUMMARY: Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother s adultery? Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearb...