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"Mercy Lytton, a scout with keen eyesight raised among the Mohawks, and Elias Dubois, a condemned traitor working both sides of the conflict, must join together to get a shipment of gold safely into British hands."--Amazon website.
Mercy Lytton straddles two cultures, yet both are united in one cause: to defeat the French. Daughter of a captive white woman and a Mohawk indian, she has a rare gift of unusually keen eyesight, and is chosen as a scout...
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Daughters of the Mayflower volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Can a religious separatist and an opportunistic spy make it in the New World? A brand new series for fans of all things related to history, romance, adventure, faith, and family trees. Mary Elizabeth Chapman boards the Speedwell in 1620 as a Separatist seeking a better life in the New World. William Lytton embarks on the Mayflower as a carpenter looking for opportunities to succeed--and he may have found one when a man from the Virginia Company offers...
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Daughters of the Mayflower volume 7
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Ellis Dumont finds a man in New Orleans Grey unconscious on Dumont property in 1836. As his fevers rage, the man mutters strange things about treasures and war. Either Claiborne Gentry has lost his mind or he's a spy for the American president--or worse, for the Mexican enemy that threatens their very lives. With the men of her family away, Ellis must stand courageous and decide who she can trust. Will she put her selfish wants ahead of the future...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In 1794, when Kate Gruener's father is ready to move the family farther west into the wilderness, Kate is eager to live out her own story of adventure. And she sets her sights on learning more about their scout, Thomas Bledsoe. Thomas's job is to get settlers safely across the Kentucky Wilderness Road to their destination while keeping an ear open for news of Shawnee unrest. But naïve Kate's inquisitive nature could put them both in the middle of...
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Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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1849. Can Olivia survive the crime and Gold Rush fever of 1849...and the countless marriage proposals? Olivia Brighton finds herself widowed and working her brother's restaurant in San Francisco during the height of the rush for gold. Even though she receives at least twenty marriage proposals a day, she will never marry a gold miner. Her brother's friend Joseph Sawyer has gotten caught up in local politics and the plight of Chinese in forced labor....
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"During the clash between Union and Confederacy, quiet Tennessean Pearl MacFarlane is compelled to nurse both Rebel and Yankee wounded who seek refuge at her family's farm. She is determined to remain unmoved by the Yankee cause--until she faces the silent struggle of Union soldier Joshua Wheeler, a recent amputee. The MacFarlane family fits no stereotype Joshua believed in; still he is desperate to regain his footing--as a soldier, as a man, as a...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Abigail Bracey arrives in Nebraska in January 1888 to teach school...and to execute a task for the government: to identify a student as the hidden son of a murderous counterfeiter--the man who killed her father. Agent Dashiell Lassiter doesn't want his childhood sweetheart Abby on this dangerous job, especially when he learns the counterfeiter is now searching for his son, too, and he'll destroy anyone in his way. Now Dash must follow Abby to Nebraska...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Eliza Gentry's pursuit of marriage to the son of her family's sworn enemy has cost her greatly. Furious at his daughter's choices, her father sends her off with the cattle drive heading toward Fort Worth and the Barnhart ranch, but under the watchful eye of Wyatt Creed, a Pinkerton man he has hired to see to her safety. With danger at every turn--not the least of which to his heart--can Wyatt Creed keep his focus with Eliza Gentry around? Is the...