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  Our Daughters' Last Hope - A...

  Elaine Stock

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  Elaine Stock presents Book 2 in the Resilient Women of WWII series.

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  Langbourne's Rebellion

  Alan P. Landau

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  The remarkable story of the Langbourne brothers is picked up in 1893. Morris, just 17, makes the bold and risky decision to head north, deeper into Africa. Morris and his younger brother, David, thus embark on a new adventure - to set up business as traders.
  
  After walking through the African bush for three months with six wagons laden with goods and hardly a track to guide them, Morris and David stop in the settlement of KoBulawayo and build their first warehouse out of wooden poles and mud. Realizing a radical change in plan is needed, Morris devises a new business strategy that propels them toward success. A political impasse rapidly develops between the European administration and the ruthless King Lobengula's massive Ndebele army. A brief and savage war erupts between the two powers; the brothers' business is unavoidably affected, and David is hunted by the Ndebele army when he tries to rescue a friend. Undaunted, but wiser to the perils of Africa, Morris sets his mind to recover their pride, their reputation, and their business.
  
  Based on a true story and actual events.
  
  ©2014 Alan P. Landau (P)2016 Audioshelf

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  River People

  Margaret Lukas

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  Book 1 in the River Women series.
  
  River People  is a powerful novel with unforgettable characters.
  
  In Nebraska in the late 1890s, seventeen-year-old Effie and eleven-year-old Bridget must struggle to endure at a time when women and children have few rights and society looks upon domestic abuse as a private, family matter.
  
  The story is told through the eyes of the girls as they learn to survive under grueling circumstances.
  
  River People is a novel of inspiration, love, loss, and renewal.

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  Mr Darcy's Mail-Order Bride - A...

  J. Dawn King

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  Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice meets the Wild, Wild West. 
  In 1869, females are in short supply in the west while a single man in want of a wife is rare in the east. When lonely Charles Bingley convinces his good friend, Will Darcy, to write a letter offering marriage to Miss Jane Bennet, she likewise convinces her sister, Elizabeth, to pen the reply. Elizabeth is struck by the beauty of the letter and responds by opening her heart to the Oregon wordsmith, who she believes to be Mr. Bingley. It’s love at first letter—for both the couples. Misunderstandings and bad impressions abound as the true identities of the authors are discovered. 
  In the days following the double wedding, Will and Elizabeth Darcy face challenge after challenge while Mr. and Mrs. Bingley appear to live in wedded bliss. Will Mr. and Mrs. Darcy find their own true love? In this sweet variation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, we will see open disdain shift to a wary friendship and the wary friendship grow to the tenderest of emotions—or will we? 
  This variation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is appropriate for all audiences.

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  How to Marry a Rake

  Deb Marlowe

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  This spin-off from The Diamonds of Welbourne Manor is “a fun, flirty, fantastic read! . . . If you love Regency romances, don’t miss out on this one” (Love Romance Passion). 
   
  Back from Europe, heiress Mae Halford has mended her heart after her friend Stephen Manning’s rejection. Looking radiant and full of confidence, she’s ready to find herself a husband! 
   
  Only, the first man she bumps into at a Newmarket house party is Lord Stephen himself! When the two find themselves covertly working together to find a missing prized racehorse, romance blossoms. But can Mae believe that Stephen has changed enough that their adventure will lead to the altar? 
   
  “A rollicking good story, How to Marry a Rake is Deb Marlowe at her best . . . The background of the Newmarket racing scene makes for a unique setting and there are plenty of secondary characters to add to this well-written story.” —Romance Reviews Today

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  Had a Good Time - Stories from...

  Robert Olen Butler

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  ”Gloriously imaginative and utterly hypnotizing short stories” inspired by vintage twentieth-century postcards, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Booklist, starred review). 
   
  For many years, author Robert Olen Butler has collected picture postcards from the early twentieth century—not so much for the pictures on the fronts but for the messages written on the backs, little bits of the captured souls of people long since passed away. Using these brief messages of real people from another age, Butler here creates fully imagined stories that speak to the universal human condition.  
   
  In “Up by Heart,” a Tennessee miner is called upon to become a preacher, and then asked to complete an altogether more sinister task. In “The Ironworkers’ Hayride,” a young man named Milton embarks on a romantic adventure with a girl with a wooden leg. From the deeply moving “Carl and I,” in which a young wife writes a postcard in reply to a card from her husband who is dying of tuberculosis, to the eerily familiar “The One in White,” in which a newspaper reporter covers an incident of American military adventurism in a foreign land, these short stories are intimate and fascinating glimpses into the lives of ordinary people in an extraordinary age. 
   
  “A wonderful collection.”—The Atlantic Monthly

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