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Author
Series
Destiny volume 02
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
It is 1907 and Stefan Vladeslav returns home after traveling for two years to find his family totally changed. His adopted cousin Katya's love affair with a Gypsy leads to an accidental death. Stefan's half brother, Ivan, who loves Katya, is hunted by the Gypsies seeking revenge for the death of the Gypsy girl. The members of the Vladeslav family must make radical changes and decisions in order to save Katya and Ivan.
Author
Series
Destiny volume 01
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A newborn baby girl is taken to a village near Zagreb, Jugoslavia. She is raised by an orphaned girl everyone believes to be her sister. When Katya becomes fifteen, she is thrust into an adventure that takes her from the poor village of Selna to the marbled walls of a seaside home in Trieste. She is pursued by a Turk, hated by a woman on the edge of madness, and accused of being a witch.
3) The big sky
Author
Series
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The big sky introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers, three of the most memorable characters in Western American literature. Traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers. The story centers on Caudill, a young Kentuckian driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of big, wild places. Caught up in the freedom and savagery...
5) Yankee pasha
Author
Language
English
Description
Jason Starbuck's search for the Golden Fleece from the harbors of Salem to the harems of Tartary.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Justin Savage, the son of a wealthy American shipowner, heads to sea in 1851 as a cabin boy on one of his father's clipper ships. He is captured by Chinese pirates, marries a pirate queen and when the Taiping Rebellion breaks out is sent to Italy to learn the art of modern warfare from Garibaldi, the revolutionary.
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