Davina Porter
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to 1743 Scotland, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for a young soldier, James Fraser.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte/Delta Trade
Pub. Date
c1997, 2007
Language
English
Description
Cast ashore in the American colonies, the Frasers are faced with a bleak choice: return to a Scotland fallen into famine and poverty, or seize the risky chance of a new life in the New World - menaced by Claire's certain knowledge of the coming Revolution. Still, a Highlander is born to risk - and so is a time-traveler. Their daughter, Brianna, is safe - they think - on the other side of a dangerous future; their lives are their own to venture as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
As battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-travelling wife Claire Randall flee from North Carolina to the high seas during the American Revolution, they encounter privateers and ocean battles. Meanwhile in the relative safety of the 20th century Brianna (Claire and Jamie's daughter) and Roger MacKenzie, Brianna's husband, search for clues not only to Claire's fate--but to their own fate in the Highlands.
5) Voyager
Author
Series
Outlander volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Time-travelling Claire Randall returns to her own time, pregnant and weary, and resumes her life, but her memories of her eighteenth-century Scottish lover Jamie Fraser will not die, leading her to a desperate decision to return to him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fifth book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series.
“A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].”—CNN
The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it,...
“A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].”—CNN
The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743...Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart's Blood. 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In 1772, on the eve of the American Revolution, Jamie Fraser is asked by the governor to help protect the colonies for King and Crown, but, thanks to his time-traveling twentieth-century wife, Claire, Jamie is aware of the ultimate result of the rebellion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell's teakettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won't...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
[c1988]
Language
English
Description
A three-year-old unsolved murder could prove fatal for Thomas Pitt-and his family When Thomas Pitt is required to reopen an unsolved murder case in exclusive Hanover Close, he doesn't know how dangerous it will be for his family-and himself. Three years before, Robert York, an important member of the British Foreign Office, was murdered. Pitt believes a mysterious woman may hold the key to the York's death, and his suspicion deepens when a York...
11) Days of gold
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The second book in the multi-generational Edilean series, Days of Gold is a sweeping romance set in 1766.
12) Half Moon Street
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot immediately ascertain exactly what segment of society the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames came from, but the sight of him is unforgettable. Is he, as Pitt fears, a French diplomat who has gone missing? Or merely someone who greatly resembles him?
13) Harm done
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Acknowledged as one of today's premier mystery writers, Ruth Rendell has won three Edgar Awards and four Gold Dagger Awards. She received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded the Commander of the British Empire. Among her most popular books are those in the Inspector Wexford series. Harm Done presents the inspector with a most volatile challenge: the various guises of domestic abuse. The residents of a shabby...
14) A kiss of fate
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Her captivating stories and vibrant characters have earned New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney enthusiastic praise from reviewers and readers alike. Now, from the majestic mansions of eighteenth-century London to the mist-shrouded wilds of the Scottish Highlands, she brings you her most breathtaking romantic adventure yet.
Laird of an ancient, powerful Scottish clan, Duncan Macrae is committed to ending the ceaseless strife...
Laird of an ancient, powerful Scottish clan, Duncan Macrae is committed to ending the ceaseless strife...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Flowers in the Rain & Other Stories collects sixteen of #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher's romantic tales set across Britain from the Scottish countryside to the city of London.
She makes you laugh...
She makes you cry...
She takes you to a world of hope and romance...
And, into the lives of people you'll never forget.
She's Rosamunde Pilcher,
America's most beloved storyteller...
And, this is her gift to you.
Author
Publisher
HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
In 1900s Australia, in the hill town of Byron, Missy's future stretched drearily in front of her with no particular direction and no man in view. It was hardly wise, then, for the local librarian, with a taste for purple prose, to suggest Missy consult a wildly romantic novel for the answer to her plight. But it was certainly effective.
17) King of the Wind
Author
Publisher
RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY
Pub. Date
1948
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
THE STORY OF THE GOLDEN-RED STALLION BEGINS AT THE SULTAN'S COURT. UPON HIS HEEL WAS THE WHITE SPOT - SYMBOL OF SPEED; BUT UPON HIS CHEST WAS THE MARK OF THE WHEAT EAR - A SIGN OF MISFORTUNE. AND THESE TWO SIGNS SEEMED TO GOVERN HIS LIFE IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
18) Anna Karenina
Author
Publisher
Bobbs-Merrill
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale...
19) Madame Bovary
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The complete and unabridged story of Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a provincial doctor, whose desires and illusions are shattered when reality catches up with her.