Christin Staff Picks

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Book cover for "Dawn on a distant shore"
Star rating for Dawn on a distant shore
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Elizabeth Bonner travels across Canadian wilderness and waterways with her two small children to rescue her husband Nathaniel from the crown officials who have imprisoned him as an American spy.
Book cover for "Dragonfly in amber"
Star rating for Dragonfly in amber
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland... For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones...about a love that transcends...
Book cover for "Into the wilderness"
Star rating for Into the wilderness
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
A judge's daughter elopes with a white adventurer in Colonial America. Elizabeth arrived from England to marry a doctor, but is smitten by Nathaniel, a man raised by the Mohawks. The doctor, however, refuses to give her up and pursues them.
Book cover for "The invention of Hugo Cabret"
Star rating for The invention of Hugo Cabret
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
Book cover for "Lake in the clouds"
Star rating for Lake in the clouds
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
It is spring 1802, and Hannah, Nathaniel Bonner's half-Indian daughter, has become a gifted healer. This beautiful young woman-of-two-worlds finds herself in peril when she helps an injured slave and puts her family--and her heart--in jeopardy.
Book cover for "Lord John and the private matter"
Star rating for Lord John and the private matter
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Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Returning from Scottish exile in 1757, Lord John Grey pursues a traitor through London and across the seas, an endeavor that is complicated by a delicate family affair and his memories of the Jacobite Rising.
Book cover for "Outlander"
Star rating for Outlander
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier