Berthoud Community Library District

A crisis linking the past and future, strands an Oxford student in the most dangerous year of the Middle Ages.

Reprint of the 1944 novel about the adventures of Amber St. Clare, the willful and beautiful illegitimate daughter of noble parents who was raised on a farm by people she knew as her aunt and uncle.

"As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors. Guided by their beloved young mistress, Lady Anne, they wait, knowing that when their dwindling stores are finally gone they will have no choice but to leave. But where will they find safety in the desolate wasteland outside? One man has the courage to find...

After learning that the plague is threatening the people of England, Lady Anne of Develish quarantines her people inside the moat that surrounds the manor home and refuses entry, even to her husband.

In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. Tom indeed becomes obsessed. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't and that violates everything Tom knows about history. What's was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago? Father Deitrich is the village priest of Oberhochwald,...

Three men live and fall in love in Provence during three very different times of crisis: the fall of the Roman Empire, the Black Death and World War II. There problems, however, are strikingly similar