Julie Berry
1) Lovely war
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it's...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Historical Fiction - YA
Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
Womens History Month - YA
YA Once Upon A Summer Reading
Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
Womens History Month - YA
YA Once Upon A Summer Reading
Description
In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
Author
Series
Wishes and Wellingtons volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Maeve Merritt, chafing against the rigid rules of her London boarding school, finds her life transformed by the genie she happens upon--and by those who want to steal him.