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"When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight across the Atlantic, his father, Charles, Sr., is the country's golden boy, with his wealthy, lovely wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, by his side. But there's someone else in their household-Betty Gow, a formerly obscure young woman, now known around the world...
2) Three Junes
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In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage. Six years later, again in June, Paul's death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as...
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Hannah Howell's new series features the MacEnroys, seven strong, seductive Scottish brothers who have come to America. A brutal attack on her family left Emily Stanton for dead. Iain MacEnroy found her, and vowed to protect her. With her noble English background, Emily shouldn't keep company with such a man. Do the divisions of the old world apply in the new?
4) Bone rattler
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Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2008
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460 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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English
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"The timeless romance, soaring passion--and gorgeous men--of Scotland come to modern-day America. And the rules of love will never be the same ... Isabel Buchanan is fiery, funny, and never at a loss for words. But she is struck speechless when her mother returns from a trip to Scotland with a six-foot-tall, very handsome souvenir. Izzy's mother is so infatuated by the fellow that Izzy has to plan their annual Highland Games all by herself. Well,...
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"Iain Connors is the poster boy for the strong and silent type. Growing up a loner at Cairndow Castle in Scotland with only the cliffs and moors for company, it's understood Iain will assume the mantle of Cairndow groundskeeper when his father is ready to relinquish it. But his stint in Her Majesty's Armed Forces has opened up a whole new world--and now, rather than settle down, he accepts an invitation to travel to the States to take charge of the...
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"When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. But as murderers stalk him Duncan discovers that the fossils of this American incognitum are not nearly as mysterious as the political intrigue driving his mission. The Sons of Liberty insist, without explaining why, that the only way to keep the king from pursuing...
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"When a ship arriving from London explodes in Boston Harbor, both the peace of the colonial city and Duncan McCallum's life are shattered ... Duncan discovers that the ship was deliberately sabotaged, apparently to cover the theft by French agents provocateurs of a secret document being carried to the Sons of Liberty ... Fearing that the intrigues of [John] Hancock and the Sons might set the colonies ablaze, Duncan relentlessly pursues the truth,...
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Bone rattler volume 4
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 417 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"The fourth entry in the Bone Rattler series advances the protagonist Duncan McCallum to 1765 and into the throes of the Stamp Tax dissent, which marked the beginning of organized resistance to English rule. Duncan follows ritualistic murders that are strangely connected to both the theft of an Iroquois artifact and a series of murders and kidnappings in the network of secret runners supporting the nascent committees of correspondence-which are engaged...
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Abigail Jenson works tirelessly to protect her small Missouri farm. She doesn't require saving -- but an officer appears on horseback just as marauders set her cabin ablaze. Abigail allows the soldier with the seductive Highlander's gaze to escort her to shelter in a nearby town. Matthew MacEnroy joined his adopted nation's conflict when an attack wounded two of his brothers. But battle has its price with a proud, independent beauty under his watch....
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Highland Georgia novel volume 3
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St. Martin's paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
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St. Martin's paperbacks edition.
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296 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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"Holt Pierson is dreading Christmas. His parents absconded to Florida for the season and left him to handle the family farm which will be his one day - whether he wants it or not. Driven by duty, Holt has always followed the path expected of him. But lately, he's been questioning what he wants and where he belongs. Will assuming the responsibility of the Pierson farm make him happy or is there something - or someone - else out in the wider world calling...
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After cheating the hangman twice--once after the Battle of Culloden in Scotland and again at Marshalsea Prison--Jamie MacGillivray is sentenced to indentured servitude in colonial America where he teams up with a poor village girl similarly sentenced through serfdom, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements.
Scotland. In 1746, at the Battle of Culloden, Jamie MacGillivray, narrowly escapes a roadside execution only to be recaptured by the victors...
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Jeremiah Brown, a Scottish immigrant in his early thirties, has lived in the United States for twelve years. He has moved as many times, from the east coast to the west coast and back again, all in the hope his luck would change. To add to his restlessness and indecision, he now has a nonrefundable ticket to Glasgow to visit his mother for the first time in seven years. The question is, will the visit help him get over the pain of separation from...
14) Dirt road
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Catapult
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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After his mothers recent death, sixteen-year-old Murdo and his father travel from their home in rural Scotland to Alabama to be with his émigré uncle and American aunt. Stopping at a small town on their way from the airport, Murdo happens upon a family playing zydeco music and joins them, leaving with a gift of two CDs of Southern American songs. On this first visit to the States, Murdo notices racial tension, religious fundamentalism, the threat...
15) Crime
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Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
482 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person she's meant to love. In New York, Aldine answers an ad soliciting a teacher for a one-room schoolhouse in a place she can't possibly imagine: drought-stricken Kansas....
17) Out of the mist
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Stewart sisters trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
365 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
18) Fanny: a fiction
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Publisher
Ecco/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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