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Ruthless rivals volume 3
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English
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Returning to London, Captain Morgan Davies discovers his long-time nemesis, the prickly, smart-mouthed Harriet Montgomery, is the cartographer behind his imprisonment and decides that revenge and seduction can be combined into one delightful package.
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English
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1907. After tragedy leaves its mark on Rebekah Hardin's family she plans to help her parents and six siblings honor her beloved brother's memory and alleviate their poverty by working as a guide in the dangerous cave system. Kentucky's renowned Mammoth Cave presents profitable opportunities in for hardworking, capable men, but Rebekah is determined to do the job-- even if it means disguising herself. Under the wing of experienced guide Tolly Sanford,...
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English
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From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. This is the story of a young woman's struggle to unburden herself of the past and chart her own destiny in a world of secrets. As assistant to Mangkon's most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman - and in a kingdom where the status of one's ancestors dictates their social position, the...
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English
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From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and it established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King , a stunning new novel that tells the story of Fatima, a concubine in...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 7
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English
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"Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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"The Hunter Valley, 1880. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home--hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father's obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. So when an advertisement appears in The Bulletin magazine offering a thousand-pound reward for proof of where Leichhardt met his fate, Evie is determined to use her father's papers to unravel the secret. But when Evie sets out to prove...
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(Allison L.).Mapmaker chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
As the race to map the world continues, so does farmboy turned reluctant adventurer Quinn's voyage into the unknown. When the Libertas docks in the exotic jungle port, of Barbarin, they are shocked to discover another Verdanian living there - a notorious thief who has been on the run for decades.
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Series
(Allison L.).Mapmaker chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
The King is determined to create the first map of the world and has scoured the kingdom for boys who could become mapmakers. When Quinn is chosen for the King's training school, he's amazed - but that is nothing compared to his shock when he is selected as one of the three mapmakers and finds himself on board a ship, competing for the big prize. So begins Quinn's reluctant journey deep into the unknown, on a ship captained by a slave, with a stowaway...
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(Allison L.).Mapmaker chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Quinn, Ash, Zain and the crew of the Libertas are racing against the clock to get back to Verdania before the King's deadline. Will they make it in time? Will Quinn complete the first map of the whole world? Will Zain bring back enough treasure to satisfy the King? Will they win the race to the end of the world?
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"A compelling portrait of one of the most interesting "forgotten" women of the twentieth century, the scientist who mapped, for the first time, the ocean floorUntil Marie Tharp's groundbreaking work in the 1950s, the floor of the ocean was a mystery--then, as now, we knew less about the ocean than we did about outer space. In a time when women in the scientific community were routinely dismissed, Tharp's work changed our understanding of the earth's...
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Spell and sextant volume 1
Publisher
Candlemark & Gleam
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"When the sky breaks apart and an earthquake shatters the seaside city of Sharis, cartographer Rukha Masreen is far from home. Caught in the city's ruins with only her tools and her wits, she meets a traveling companion who will change her course forever: the wizard Eshu, who stumbles out of a mirror with hungry ghosts on his heels. He's everything that raises her hackles: high-strung, grandiloquent, stubborn as iron. But he needs to get home, too,...
14) Family adventure collector's set: Spirit Bear ; Sign of the otter ; Spirit of the eagle ; White Fang
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Spirit Bear: A shy fifteen-year-old finds the courage to fight for the habitat of the rare, white Kermode bear, Spirit Bear, in one of the largest land battles in history, after being rescued from a wilderness attack by Spirit Bear.
Sign of the otter: In his pursuit of the ruthless British commander who captured his son, Samuel Todd accepts the help of friendly, Native American chief Takhane.
Spirit of the eagle: Legendary mapmaker Big Eli McDonough...
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. She boldly embraces this calling after being told the shocking news that she can't bear children, but as the country steers toward bloody civil war, Sarah...
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Clandestine affairs volume 3
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The new footman doesn't seem to know his place... London's most renowned mapmaker is a woman...but nobody knows it. If anyone discovers that Rose Fleming is the power and talent behind the family business, the scandal could ruin them. Rose's secret is tested by the arrival of a handsome new footman who shows far too much interest in his new mistress. Rose battles an intense attraction to the enigmatic servant, but maintaining a proper distance isn't...
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