Barbara Wood
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When three people die after ingesting her herbs, Charlotte Lee, owner of a herbs shop in California, guesses someone is trying to destroy her. With the help of her beau, Jonathan Sutherland, she learns of a conspiracy. Lots of background on herbs.
2) Vital signs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mickey, Cassie, and Ruth, three women doctors who have been friends since medical school in the 1960s, each go on to become pioneers in different fields of medical specialization.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The time is December 1999. Millennial fever holds the world in its grip - stirring ancient and terrible fears that the apocalypse is at hand. In the Sinai desert, archeologist Catherine Alexander just unearthed a cache of six ancient papyrus scrolls that point to the millennium's most transforming secret. Discovered inside the legendary Well of Miriam, a site named after the ancient prophetess who was the sister of Moses, the scrolls reveal a hidden...
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Newlywed Emily Stone and her husband, Isaac, are young missionaries who have traveled from New England to Honolulu to share the Gospel with the Hawaiian natives. Gentle, adventurous, well-bred, and beautiful, Emily soon finds herself struggling with intense homesickness but remains determined to share her faith, and ignore her growing feelings for handsome Captain MacKenzie Farrow. Just as she begins to bond with the influential High Chiefess Pua...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
From the #1 internationally bestselling author comes a sweeping epic that chronicles the history of the world through the destiny of a mysterious blue stone.
Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and shattered, revealing a beautiful blue stone. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain, and it formed her destiny-as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to Imperial...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Two thousand years ago, there was a great bay and a peaceful land filled with sage, citrus trees, and pine. And there was a tribe called the Topaa. Marimi, a healer in her tribe, is unprepared for what fate holds in store for her. Without her knowledge, her actions place her under the watchful, suspicious gaze of a rival...and Marimi's family is placed under a curse that impacts how their legacy unfolds. From prehistoric California to the days of...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The Bestselling Author of The Blessing Stone and Daughter of the Sun
She came to them from the sea, and to the sea they returned her. . . . A story of sacrifice and survival in the New World.
Tonina lives an idyllic life on a small island in the Caribbean hundreds of years before Europeans discovered it. But she has always been an outsider among her people. Unlike them, Tonina is tall and lean and light skinned, and her origins remain a mystery....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Hoshi'tiwa had a simple life: The daughter of a humble corn grower, she planned to marry a storyteller's apprentice. But her world is turned upside down when she is captured by the powerful and violent ruler of an infamous city with legends of untold wealth and unspeakable acts of violence to its name. Hoshi'tiwa is suddenly thrown into the court of the Dark Lord, and as she struggles for power, she begins an illicit affair with...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Virgins of Paradise is a magnificent saga about the women in a rich, aristocratic Egyptian family, by the author of Green City in the Sun and The Dreaming. This is a sensuous, romantic, exciting novel of women in search of identity amid historic change, and a fascinating portrait of an ancient nation mired in superstition, magic and mythology as it emerges into the modern era.
Jasmine and Camelia Rasheed grow to womanhood under the watchful eye of...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A magnificent saga of two proud and powerful families-one British, one African-and their battle over Kenya's destiny in the twentieth century.
In 1917, Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya, determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England. The aspirations of the wealthy Trevertons collide with...
13) The divining
Author
Publisher
Turner Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A riveting, historical tale set in first-century Rome, The Divining chronicles one young woman's spiritual quest to discover her destiny through the powerful gift of second sight-and save entire future generations.
Ancient Rome: 54 C.E. Nineteen-year-old Ulrika is plagued with strange visions and dreams. In order to discover the truth behind her past and her unusual powers, Ulrika embarks on a dangerous journey to her father's homeland, Germania....
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For as long as anyone could remember, the Schallers and the Newmans had been enemies. When the skeletal remains of a victim of foul play are discovered at the Schaller estate, a decades-old feud between the rival winemaking families is reignited and dark secrets begin to see the light of day. Set against the lush backdrop of the rolling hills of California's Central Coast, The New York Times best-selling author Barbara Wood's thirtieth novel is a...
Author
Publisher
Turner
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
" Ugarit, Syria, 1450 B.C.E. Eighteen-year-old Leah, the eldest daughter of a wealthy winemaker, is past the traditional age of betrothal. Vowed to wed the wealthy but cruel shipbuilder Jotham, Leah declines his offer of marriage after discovering that he and his family suffer from "the falling sickness." Enraged by her refusal and his ruined reputation, he blackmails Leah's father, a punishment forgiven only by offering Leah's hand in marriage. With...
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress marry and move West to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s when it was just a budding town on the edge of the Mojave Desert. This is also the story of a woman finding her own personality and strength in the West against a breathtaking desert landscape that changes constantly and shows its deadly side in poisonous snakes, flash floods and sand storms, with dramatic moments...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Barbara Wood's 1978 debut novel is now back in print in a new edition from Turner Publishing. When the first of the Magdalene Scrolls arrives, Professor Ben Messer is puzzled, intrigued, excited. What scholar of ancient languages wouldn't be, when he held in his hands something even more astonishing than the Dead Sea Scrolls-a scroll just discovered to contain the life story and last confession of a man who had lived in Jerusalem just after the death...
18) This golden land
Author
Publisher
IUniverse
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a possible murder charge, a naive doctor's daughter boards a ship bound for Melbourne where she hopes to practice as a midwife. Once there, amid the turmoil of 1840s Australia, she meets and falls for two men, one an American photographer starting a new life in a new land, and the other a rough-and-tumble outlaw.
19) Soul flame
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Selene, 16, daughter of a Roman slave, discovers that she has healing powers which she uses to survive, and in Rome, is accepted as the granddaughter of Cleopatra and Caesar.
20) Night trains
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Two young doctors devise a remarkable scheme to stage a typhus epidemic which will force the Nazis to evacuate a Polish town. Based on a little-known true episode of World War II.