Louis Bayard
1) Jackie & me
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. Her mission in life is {28}not to be a housewife,
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A reimagining of Teddy and Kermit Roosevelt's ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition--a psychological twist on the smart historical thriller that first put Louis Bayard on the map. The setting is 1914 at Brazil's Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt. Plagued by hunger and suffering the lingering effects of malaria, Theodore Roosevelt, his son Kermit, and the other members of the now-ravaged Roosevelt-Rondon scientific expedition are traveling deeper and...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together" --
With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister--and the family gas station. To keep a competitor at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father--fast. When a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. "I can only hope," she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, "that...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An ancient mystery, a lost letter, and a timeless love unleash a long-buried web of intrigue that spans four centuries
In the late sixteenth century, five brilliant scholars gather under the cloak of darkness to discuss God, politics, astronomy, and the black arts. Known as the School of Night, they meet in secret to avoid the wrath of Queen Elizabeth. But one of the men, Thomas Harriot, has secrets of his own, secrets he shares with one person only:...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 352 pages : map, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Having used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to nab some of France's most notorious criminals, early nineteenth-century detective Vidocq teams up with obscure medical student Hector to track down the most challenging adversary of his career, a case with ties to the missing son of Marie Antoinette.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for a holiday. His wife, Constance, has every reason to be happy: two beautiful sons, a stellar reputation as an advocate for progressive causes, and a delightfully charming and affectionate husband and father, who is perhaps the most famous man in England. But as an assortment of houseguests arrive, including an aristocratic young wannabe poet named Lord...