Lynn Morris
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Book 2 of Cheney and Shiloh: The Inheritance. Cheney and Shiloh Irons-Winslow return to New York from their honeymoon and enthusiastically begin workShiloh at Winslow Brothers Shipping and Cheney in her medical career. But their tranquility is shattered when Cheney discovers that a young doctor she hired as an assistant hides a scandal in his past and possibly murder in his heart! Danger and plot twists abound as the Morrises pen yet another thrilling...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Description
With New Orleans as their destination, Cheney Duvall and her nurse, Shiloh Irons, leave behind the glittering lights of New York City and travel to Charleston, South Carolina, intending to stay for only a short time. But the purpose of their stop immediately draws them into the plight of this war-torn Southern city, in the painful throes of Reconstruction and carpetbagger policies after the Civil War.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Working in the hospital proves to be quite different from Cheney's experience in private practice. One of the conflicts Cheney faces is that of fair and conscientious medical treatment of what are considered unfit persons. San Francisco teems with brothels, criminal gangs, poverty-stricken vagrants, and immigrants. The hospital's board of directors has decreed that none of these people will receive treatment, regardless of their ability to pay. When...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Dr. Cheney Duvall, weary of being rejected for jobs simply because she is a woman, jumps at the chance to care for two hundred frontier brides-to-be on a sea voyage from New York to Washington Territory, but with the journey looming before her, Cheney begins to doubt whether she is really prepared for the responsibility.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Cheney receives a letter from a friend pleading that she come to a remote spot in the Ozark Mountains. The friend is having a baby, and there are no doctors available in the primitive wilderness. Though she is warned about the mountain folks, Cheney feels compelled to go and provide medical care to her friend and the community.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Cheney Duvall's attempt to help the mountain folks in the primitive wilderness of the Ozark Mountains had proven to be a difficult experience for both her and her nurse, Shiloh Iron. When they return to her home in New York, Cheney determines to go into private practice with Devlin Buchanan, a highly successful physician who had previously asked her to marry him. A cholera outbreak threatens when an infected steamship arrives.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
A disturbing letter from her great-aunts has brought Cheney Duvall to their indigo plantation outside of New Orleans, but what she and Shiloh Irons discover is much more serious and dangerous than they imagined. A West Indies cult has begun performing rituals and rites on a high knoll just across the bayou from the plantation, and warnings are sent that La Maison des Chattes Bleues is on spirit ground and the aunts must leave.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Cheney has discovered some disturbing facts about Bain Winslow and travels to warn Shiloh. The Winslows have refused to acknowledge any kinship to him and believe he is nothing more than a con man bent on stealing the family fortunes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
"Historical novel set in 1870 St. Augustine, Florida. Cheney and Shiloh's vacation to Florida turns very mysterious and they wonder if perhaps Sangria House is not the haven they had thought it would be"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
After years of growing friendship, Shiloh Irons-Winslow believes he finally has something to offer Cheney Duvall and asks for her hand in marriage. But for Cheney, one insurmountable obstacle stands in the way of their happiness, and it is impossible to ignore. Meanwhile, Bain Winslow has become obsessed with plotting revenge against his newfound cousin, Shiloh, who is the legitimate heir to the vast Winslow holdings and wealth in Hawaii.
Author
Series
Cheney Duvall M.D volume 5
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 19
Author
Series
Cheney Duvall M.D volume 7
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
When her stepfather suddenly dies, Valeria Segrave finds she must take charge of her grieving mother and the vast estate which now belongs to her six-year-old half brother, the new Earl of Maledon. Though capable, Valeria is frustrated to find each day brings a new struggle as she tries to establish her authority with servants, stewards, and solicitors --all men. As a young woman with no blood relation to the earl, they are all too ready to dismiss...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Description
Lady Mirabella Tirel, the beautiful daughter of the Marquess of Camarden, takes a practical approach to love since a dashing captain broke her heart at age 17. Now at almost 22 years old, she has decided to endure one last London season to secure a suitable engagement and begin a simple life in the country.Sir Giles Knyvet is Mirabella's oldest friend and her most dependable ally, and he is also secretly in love with her. Yet he knows the prospect...
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Series
Creoles series volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
For her sixteenth birthday, Damita De Salvado receives a beautiful slave girl, Rissa, but mistreats her, revealing Damita's prejudice and hardening Rissa's heart. When her family experiences financial hardships, Damita grudgingly sells Rissa to a mysterious Christian doctor, Jefferson Whitman, who is Rissa's adopted brother. Now the tables have turned: Rissa is a wealthy, free woman, while Damita's family struggles to keep the plantation. Will both...
17) The exiles
Author
Series
Creoles series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
This first novel in the Creoles series describes the trials and triumphs of four girls who meet at the Ursuline Convent School and declare themselves to be the "Four Musketeers-- one for all and all for one." The Exiles focuses on the life of one of the four young women: the red-haired, headstrong Chantel Fontaine. As a young girl, Chantel faced overwhelming tragedy, and now the realization of who the mysterious child on the street might be sends...
18) The alchemy
Author
Series
Creoles series volume 3
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Each book in The Creoles Series revolves around one of four girls who become close friends while attending a convent school in New Orleans. The third book, The Alchemy focuses on Simone d'Or, a vivacious young woman hardened by high society life, and Colin Seymour, a talented young man from humble beginnings. As the famed singer and composer Lord Beaufort nurtures Colin's singing voice, Colin rises to stardom in the opera world. At first, Simone judges...
19) The Tapestry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The Creoles Series tells the stories of four young women who attend the Ursuline Convent School in New Orleans during the early nineteenth century. Each book is a romantic adventure that focuses on one woman as she faces the trials of life and faith. In this striking conclusion to The Creoles Series, Gilbert Morris delivers his award-winning storytelling, told against a cultural background unique to this series alone.Abandoned as an infant on the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Gilbert Morris has written more than 80 inspiring novels, many of them bestsellers. In this epic work, he and his co-authors use Biblical truth and powerful allegory to offer a new way of thinking about the end times. In the year 2050, the U.S. government rules that humanity is nature's worst enemy and herds all of its citizens into a few overcrowded cities. An insidious new version of Germany's Third Reich, led by an indestructible madman, infiltrates...