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Koda

Traveling with his owners from Missouri to Oregon in 1848, Koda, an energetic two-year-old quarter horse, finds the long journey increasingly tedious and tiring until his young owner goes missing on the trail and he must use all his skills to find her.

A pirate tale

2000
Mary disguises herself as a boy and signs on to work as a deckhand on a pirate ship.

Daring Darleen, queen of the screen

It's 1914 and twelve-year-old Darleen Daring is a silent film star. When a fake kidnapping set up by her studio goes wrong, Darleen finds herself in the hands of actual criminals who have also just kidnapped Victorine Berryman, the heiress of one of America's largest fortunes. Darleen and Victorine will have to live their own adventure serial, with dramatic escapes, murder plots, and a runaway air balloon in order to survive.

I survived the battle of D-Day, 1944

The next installment in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series! In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Lauren Tarshis shines a spotlight on the story of the Normandy landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history and foundation for the Allied victory in World War II.

While we're far apart

2010
The lives of three people, including Esther, whose father enlists in the army after the death of her mother; Penny, who tries to win over Eddie Shaffer, who she has long been in love with; and Mr. Mendel, an elderly landlord waiting to hear about the fate of his son, who has been trapped in war-torn Hungary; intersect during World War II as they consider their understanding of God's love in light of life's challenges.

The wondrous and the wicked

2015
"Turn-of-the-century Paris is in turmoil, with demons prowling the streets, unless the Waverly sisters and their gargoyle protectors can stop them. Except there is an otherworldly power rising up that could mean the end"--Provided by publisher.

The Greenlanders

a novel
2005
The family of Asgeir Gunnarsson, a wealthy Greenlander farmer, struggles to survive personal tragedies, famine, political upheaval, and harsh conditions.

The far side of the sky

2012
In 1938, Dr. Franz Adler, a renowned surgeon, flees the anti-Semitic violence of Europe with his daughter only to find starvation and disease in Shanghai. Franz struggles to keep the refugee hospital open and protect his family from a terrible fate.

The angel makers

2011
During World War I, Sari Arany, a herbalist in a small Hungarian village falls in love with on of the Italian POWs housed nearby, when her fianc? returns Sari poisons him. Soon other women in the village are coming to her for help in similar situations.

That anvil of our souls

a novel of the Monitor and the Merrimack
2005
Seven people find their lives forever changed as they face the decisive Civil War battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack.

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