A Barrel of Laughs: A Vale of Tears |
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'Feiffer follows 'The Man in the Ceiling' with another winner, this time a rollicking medieval farce that pokes fun at medieval farces--and just about everything else--while managing at the same time to be hilarious, engaging and thoroughly entertaining'.--'Family Life'.
A Barrel of Laughs: A Vale of Tears
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A Doctor Like Papa |
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When a virus hits her community in early twentieth-century Vermont and causes friends and family to become very ill, Margaret finds herself rethinking her longtime dream of becoming a doctor.
A Doctor Like Papa
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A Lion to Guard Us |
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Left on their own in seventeenth-century London, three impoverished children draw upon all their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father.
A Lion to Guard Us
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All Their Names Were Courage: A Novel of the Civil War |
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Black Bess. Kangaroo. Burns. Traveller. All the horses of the Civil War. And Belle, the Burd family's mare. Sallie Burd loves horses. She wants to know everything about them. What she's going to find out is that all their names are Courage.
All Their Names Were Courage: A Novel of the Civil War
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An Earthly Knight |
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A cloud has descended over the household of Lady Jeanette Avenel. THe year is 1162. Sixteen-year-old Jenny has always enjoyed her freedom as second daughter of a Norman nobleman in Teviotdale, Scotland. But when Jenny's sister, Isabel, disgraces the family by running away with a dangerous suitor, Jenny is thrust reluctantly into the role of elder daughter. While Jenny worries about her sister's future, her father's attention turns keenly toward Jenny, and finding her a worthy suitor. When Jenny is chosen as a potential bride for William de Warenne, brother of the king of Scotland and heir to the crown, redemption of her family's name seems within reach. Amid formal banquets and jousting tournaments, she struggles to impress the aloof Earl William. At the same time, however, she finds herself drawn to Tam Lin, a mysterious young man. Rumored to have been kidnapped by fairies, Tam harbors a dark secret from his past that threatens everyone close to him . . . including Jenny. Glimmering with exquisite detail, Janet McNaughton's beautifully woven story t
An Earthly Knight
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An Earthly Knight |
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A cloud has descended over the household of Lady Jeanette Avenel. THe year is 1162. Sixteen-year-old Jenny has always enjoyed her freedom as second daughter of a Norman nobleman in Teviotdale, Scotland. But when Jenny's sister, Isabel, disgraces the family by running away with a dangerous suitor, Jenny is thrust reluctantly into the role of elder daughter. While Jenny worries about her sister's future, her father's attention turns keenly toward Jenny, and finding her a worthy suitor. When Jenny is chosen as a potential bride for William de Warenne, brother of the king of Scotland and heir to the crown, redemption of her family's name seems within reach. Amid formal banquets and jousting tournaments, she struggles to impress the aloof Earl William. At the same time, however, she finds herself drawn to Tam Lin, a mysterious young man. Rumored to have been kidnapped by fairies, Tam harbors a dark secret from his past that threatens everyone close to him . . . including Jenny. Glimmering with exquisite detail, Janet McNaughton's beautifully woven story t
An Earthly Knight
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Before the Creeks Ran Red |
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A tattered flag above Fort Sumter . . . riots in the streets . . . Union troops occupying private homes and harassing citizens . . . The months before the first major battle of the Civil War were marked by confusion, deep emotion, and bitter divisions between families, neighbors, and friends. Timothy Donovan, a bugler at Fort Sumter; Joseph Schwartz, a scholarship student from a working-class family in Baltimore; and Gregory Howard, son of a wealthy man in Alexandria, Virginia, all find their loyalties challenged by the gathering storm. For Timothy, the threat of bombardment by rebel troops, coupled with a near-starvation diet in a garrison that is under siege, forces him to question what it really means to lay down one's life for one's flag. Joseph's family is fiercely Unionist, but his privileged classmates -- including his one real friend -- are staunchly in favor of secession. And Gregory's Unionist father has disinherited Gregory's older brother, who, like the rest of the family, remains loyal to the South. 'Shades of Gray author Carolyn Reeder shows the
Before the Creeks Ran Red
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Boston Jane: An Adventure |
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After moving to the Northwest to be with her true love, gentile and proper sixteen-year-old Jane Peck of Philadelphia learns that living in the Washington Territory is something vastly different from her home back east and so must find the strength necessary to meet the many unexpected challenges ahead of her. Reprint.
Boston Jane: An Adventure
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Brilliance of the Moon: Battle for Marnyama |
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A tale set in an alternate medieval Japan follows the adventures of Takeo and Kaede as they find their destinies shaped by factors outside of their control. Reprint.
Brilliance of the Moon: Battle for Marnyama
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Brilliance of the Moon: Scars of Victory |
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When Kaede arrives at Shirakawa, she, along with her sisters, are taken prisoner at Lord Fujiwara's house, while Takeo must battle two armies when the forces of nature conspire to do him harm. Reprint.
Brilliance of the Moon: Scars of Victory
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