Kate Williams
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. Rudolf and Verena are planning the wedding of their daughter Emmeline, while their eldest son, Arthur, is studying in Paris and Michael is just back from his first term at Cambridge. Celia, the youngest of the de Witt children, is on the brink of adulthood, and secretly dreams of escaping her carefully mapped-out future and exploring the world. But the onslaught of war changes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In the glittering city of 1920s New York, Celia is hunting for her son Michael, who was taken from her at birth. In her desperation to find him, thwarted at every turn, she looks to the valiant girls of an underground flapper army and a runaway boy for help. Then the Great Depression erupts and everything seems lost. But the Depression brings Michael to her, and although Celia has lost her brother and her business, she has her child. They return to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In the aftermath of the Great War, the De Witt family is struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of their lives. Rudolf and his wife Verena, still reeling from the loss of their second son, don't know how to function in the post-war world. Stoneythorpe Hall has become an empty shell with no servants to ensure its upkeep. Celia, the de Witt's youngest daughter, is still desperate to spread her wings and see more of the world. To escape...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A vivid biography of Emma Hamilton re-creates her dramatic rags-to-riches saga from her birth as the daughter of a blacksmith in a poor English mining town, through her colorful career as a mistress to one aristocrat and wife of another, to her notorious association with British naval hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.
6) Who's who?
Author
Series
Sweet Valley High. Original series volume 62
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When she fails to find Mr. Right in the hallowed halls of Sweet Valley High, Jessica Wakefield signs up with a computer dating service as two people, and when the offers pour in, sister Elizabeth must pick up the slack.
Author
Series
Babysitters coven volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
When the Synod, the Sitterhood's governing circle, calls a once-in-a-generation Summit, Esme should be excited to get the answers she wants, but she is struck, instead, by a building sense of panic.
Author
Series
Babysitters coven volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
After new student Cassandra Heaven joins seventeen-year-old Esme Pearl's babysitters club, the girls learn that being a babysitter really means a heroic lineage of superpowers, magic rituals, and saving the innocent from evil.
Author
Series
Babysitters coven volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Esme suspects that the trouble brewing in Spring River has something to do with a new band that reeks of Red Magic.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Williams provides a gripping account of Queen Victoria's rise to the throne and her early years in power-as well as the tragic, little-known story of the princess whose demise made it all possible. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, monarchies across Europe found themselves in crisis. With mad King George III and his delinquent offspring tarnishing the realm, the English pinned their hopes on the only legitimate heir to the throne: the lovely...
12) The Whole Truth
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Defense attorney Richard Ramsay takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter that he will keep her son Mike out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime. But as the trial proceeds, chilling evidence about the kind of man that Boone Lassiter really was comes to light. While Ramsay uses the evidence to get his client acquitted, his new colleague Janelle tries to dig deeper....
13) Empire Falls
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
14) Last orders
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
Follows the lives of four men, covering nearly a half-century of these South London buddies lives, from thier adopted pub to Margate Pier. Through a series of flashbacks, they take you on a journey of a lifetime. Along with them are the ashes of Jack, their larger-than-life friend, whose deathbed request sends them on their way.
15) Berkeley Square
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
Three nannies in turn-of-the-century London and their friendship and unpredictable twists and turns of love, happiness, and secrets in the posh world of Berkeley Square.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"This explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality. An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy. A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next. A trans man's pregnancy forces them to approach their key relationships...