Barbara Caruso
41) Calico Captive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
SUMMARY: A historical novel based on an actual narrative. In 1754, on the brink of the French and Indian war, young Miriam Willard and her older sister's family are captured in an Indian raid on Charleston, N.H., where they are held for ransom.
42) San Miguel
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The lives of three women on turn-of-the-20th-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious aspiring actress daughter and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure in the face of looming war.
Author
Series
Canadian West series volume 5
Language
English
Description
A novel of two entwined love stories set in the majestic Canadian West.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, Jill Ker's parents bought a sheep farm on the western plains of New South Wales. In 1944, they lost nearly everything when a drought hit. Forced to leave Coorain, 11-year-old Jill and her mother settled in Sydney where Jill struggled to find a place for herself among Sydney's elite. Her story, both a chronicle of life in the Australian outback and the odyssey of a brilliant woman fighting the constraints of her time, offers a loving...
Author
Series
Ladies of liberty volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
46) Fallen women
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Center Point Large Print ed.
Language
English
Description
From the ballrooms and mansions of Denver’s newly wealthy, to the seamy life of desperate women, Fallen Women illuminates the darkest places of the human heart. It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver. What they do not tell her is that Lillie had become a prostitute and...
47) Misty's twilight
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captivated by the story of "Misty of Chincoteague," a woman with a horse farm in Florida raises one of Misty's descendants to become a champion show horse.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America's most prolific and horrifying serial killer.
In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near the sandy shore of Washington's Green River. Authorities have...
In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near the sandy shore of Washington's Green River. Authorities have...
Author
Series
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Minnie and Moo are two of the most entertaining and charmingly wacky bovine buddies ever to hit the printed page, and Barbara Caruso brings them refreshingly to life on audio...The background music and sound effects combine to enhance the stories, and add just the right touch and mood. A winning combination! - AudioFile
50) And Eternity
Author
Series
Incarnations of immortality volume 7
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In the triumphant finale to the Incarnations of Immortality series, the Incarnation of Good dominates. Orlene has died and we follow her into the afterlife. Joining forces with two women--Jolie, Satan's consort and Vita, a troubled mortal--together these three women will test the limits of morality.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Deborah Tannen has saved thousands of marriages, friendships, and jobs with her classic best-sellers on communication between the sexes. Now, in this remarkable best-seller, she explores the verbal power games that keep men and women from communicating in the workplace. Talking from 9 to 5 is filled with true stories and fascinating insights into conversational styles that will drastically alter your perception of management styles, office confrontations,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1903, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" is the charming and classic children's novel beloved the world over. Written by the American author and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, it is the story of young and poor Rebecca Rowena Randall, who goes to live with her spinster aunts in the town of Riverboro when she is ten years-old. Rebecca's father had died three years before and the family farm had become heavily indebted. In order to ease the...
55) Main Street
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
56) Downtown
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The year is 1966, a time of innocence, possibility, and freedom. And for Atlanta, the country, and one woman making her way in a changing world, nothing will be the same . . . After an airless childhood in Savannah, Smoky O'Donnell arrives in Atlanta, dazzled and chastened by this hectic young city on the rise. Her new job as a writer with the city's Downtown magazine introduces her to many unforgettable people and propels her into the center of momentous...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the most extraordinary journey Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than forty-nine young women. For twenty-one years, the Green River Killer carried out his self-described "career" as a killing machine, ridding the world of women he considered evil. His eerie ability to lure his victims to their deaths and hide their bodies...
Author
Series
Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 12
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stillness of the mountains, the pines covering the hillsides, the gurgle of the spring... this was her home... The prairie fires that sweep the grazing lands, the coming of white men with their guns and diseases, and the quick slaughter of the vast buffalo herds leave Running Fawn's Blackfoot tribe with little choice but to take up residence on the assigned Reserve. All her life, Running Fawn has known only contentment, but now what will become...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the premature death of her husband. But Genevieve rose from those ashes of grief and built a fashion empire that was respected the world over, even when it meant neglecting...
Author
Series
Little Women series volume 3
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Little women, Jo founds a school at Plumfield.