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Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1942.Though she survived the bomb that destroyed her home, Yvonne Rudellat's life is over. She's estranged from her husband, her daughter is busy with war work, and Yvonne―older, diminutive, overlooked―has lost all purpose. Until she's offered a chance to remake herself entirely... The war has taken a turn for the worse, and the men in charge are desperate. So, when Yvonne is recruited as Britain's first female sabotage agent, expectations...
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe volume 23
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north, the other to the south; if they meet, the British...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Mary Fawcett refines the healing recipes she's inherited from generations of women before her--an uncanny and moral calling to empathize with the sick. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins arrives in her small village, stoking the fires of hate, he sees not healing, but the devil at work. Mary's benevolent skills have now cast her and her young brother under suspicion of witchery. Soon, the husband of one of Mary's patients is found murdered, his body...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"On August 22, 1860, an enslaved woman from Mississippi named Eliza Winston petitioned for her freedom before a judge in Minnesota--and won. For more than 150 years, historians' accounts have focused on the implications of the events for Minnesota politics rather than on Winston's own story. With It Took Courage, Christopher P. Lehman sets the record straight. Lehman uncovers the never-told story of Winston's first forty-two years and her long struggle...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reflects on her 42-year marriage with Dick Goodwin, one the shining stars of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and the journey of going through the letters, diaries, documents and memorabilia he saved over the years.
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