Julia Ormond
5) First Knight
Description
This is a new vision of King Arthur's Camelot. A vision of breathtaking battles, heart-pounding courage, of the undeniable love that brought an entire kingdom to its knees ... and the undying passion that made it live forever.
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
Description
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and colleague Inez Mulholland gives up...
11) The wronged man
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Paralegal Janet Gregory takes on a pro bono case to help an African-American husband and father who she believes has been wrongly accused of raping a girl in his neighborhood. Her 22-year battle with the justice system will eventually bring him the freedom he deserves and bond the two of them in a life-long friendship.
12) Exploding sun
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A solar flame four times larger than Earth is plunging toward the planet. Military scientist Dr. Jane Brandt calls upon the one man who can possibly reverse the cataclysm, a renegade scientist who warns the countdown to the end of humanity has begun.
13) Son of the South
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In this poignant true story set in Montgomery, Alabama, a Klansman's grandson must choose which side of history to be on during the Civil Rights Movement.
14) The green
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The Green tells the story of a teacher at a Connecticut private high school, who thinks he can live a simple, harmonious domestic existence with his partner Daniel, a caterer. But Michael's world is turned upside down when he is accused of engaging in 'inappropriate behavior' with a male student. With his job, relationship, and freedom in jeopardy, Michael must confront the suspicions of his co-workers and Daniel's doubts about his partner's innocence....
15) Chained
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Description
When he was 9 years old, Tim and his mother were abducted by taxi-driving serial killer Bob. Tim's mother was murdered. Tim was kept as a chained slave, forced to bury the bodies of young women Bob drags home and keep scrapbooks of the crimes. Now a teenager, Tim and Bob share a depraved father/son/protege relationship. But who will ultimately sever the bond between family and unimaginable horror?
16) Sabrina
Pub. Date
c2001, c1995
Description
The younger son of the wealthy Larrabee family falls for the chauffeur's daughter when she returns from Paris. The older son decides to woo her away from his brother and then drop her, but love intervenes.
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
Centers on the adventures of a mother and her two adult daughters, both of whom unknowingly are their family's next generation of witches, who lead seemingly quiet, uneventful modern day lives in Long Island's secluded seaside town of North Hampton. When one of the daughters becomes engaged to a young, wealthy newcomer, a series of events forces her mother to admit to her daughters they are, in fact, powerful and immortal witches.
Series
American Girl volume Kit Kittredge
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.
20) Son of the South
Pub. Date
2021
Description
In this poignant true story set in Montgomery, Alabama, a Klansman's grandson must choose which side of history to be on during the civil rights movement.
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