19th century

Tells the story about the forbidden union between two enlsaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.

In the gaslit splendor of late 19th-century New York, rage builds inside 14-year-old Daphne. The sudden death of her father has left her alone with her grief-stricken mother who becomes easy prey for a group of occultists promising to contact her dead husband. While fighting to disentangle her mother from these charlatans, Daphne begins to sense a strange, insidious presence in her own body; an entity with unspeakable appetites. What does ?Brother? want? And could Daphne stop him even if she tried?.

"Chief Detective Captain Edward Hyde has a strange gift, or curse, he keeps hidden from all but his personal physician. He experiences two realities: one actual, the other a dreamworld state brought on by a severe neurological condition. When Hyde finds himself at the scene of a heinous murder by the riverbank, with no inkling of how he got there or if the events leading up to the discovery, his alarm is triggered by two terrifying facts. First, the burtal crime scene involves the Threefold Death, an ancient Celtic rite of sacrifice entangled with dark Scottish spiritual mythology. Second, Hyde's inability to remember any detail of his arrival at the crime scene may indicate a strenghtening of the rare form of epilepsy he suffers from that causes him to lose time. He experiences amnesiac absences where he cannot account for his actions and nocturnal seizures that manifest as vivid and lucid dreams. With the city on edge, Captain Hyde wades blindly into the murder investigation, finding himself not only searching for real-world clues, but trying to unravel the significance of the imagery in the otherworld of his dreaming"--Provided by publisher.

". . . Odette faces a vampire's final death. The Court of the Lions have done everything they can to save her but have failed. A healer from the Sylvan Vale could help her, but only Arjun Desai, as a half fey, can cross the boundary between realms. The Sylvan Vale is a world Arjun despises, and in return, it despises him. But knowing it could save Odette, he returns to the Vale with all haste, leaving the mirrored tare between the two worlds open and unwittingly setting the stage for both love and war. It's mere days until Pippa Montrose is to wed Phoebus Devereux and become a member of his well-heeled family, offering salvation to her own. But Celine is missing. Pippa has no idea where her best friend has gone, but she's certain it's in the company of vampire S?bastien Saint Germain and that Arjun can lead her to them. Pippa enjoins the help of Eloise, the daughter of a powerful sorceress, to discover the gateway Arjun uses to travel between worlds. Pippa, tired of hesitating in life, marches right through in search of her friend. But what she discovers on the other side is a dangerous, duplicitous world full of mischief and magic she doesn't understand, and most unexpectedly, she finds love"--Dust jacket.

In this retelling of an episode from Uncle Tom's Cabin, the slave Eliza Harris resolves to escape with her two-year-old son across the frozen Ohio River to prevent her master from selling the boy. Includes historical notes on Harriet Beecher Stowe, slavery in America, the Fugitive slave laws, and the Underground Railroad.

"London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. The story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? On the case is Inspector Cutter, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. Gideon Bliss, a Cambridge dropout in love with one of the missing girls, stumbles into a role as Cutter's sidekick. And clever young journalist Octavia Hillingdon sees the case as a chance to tell a story that matters--despite her employer's preference that she stick toa women's society column. As Inspector Cutter peels back the mystery layer by layer, he leads them all, at last, to the secrets that lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands"--Provided by publisher.

"Even though Ida B. Wells urges Black Americans to boycott the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, young Lorraine Williams will do anything for a chance to see her idol, the Black opera singer Sissieretta Jones, perform at the fair"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a history of Savannah, Georgia, focusing on events that transpired before, during, and after the Civil War. Draws on military records, diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs to recount the stories of individual men and women ranging from bankers and dockworkers to enslaved laborers and field hands.

"Camera in tow, Smith retraces his journey to photograph the people and places that have come to mean so much to him. Though he has vast ground to cover, the inevitable delays of travel afford Smith an opportunity to rest and reflect. On Amir and Karluk, who have since sought the tutelage of Karluk's hardy brother-in-law. On Pariya, struggling to complete the elaborate embroideries for her dowry. On the young, energetic twin brides, Laila and Leily. On the grand mansion that is to be the first stop on his return journey"--Provided by publisher.

"When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back in time, they land in the tallest tree in Yosemite, California where they join nature conservationist, John Muir, and US President Teddy Roosevelt on a historic trip through the woods"--.