Del Norte Public Library

"In An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days, best-selling mystery novelist Susan Wittig Albert invites us to revisit one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, 2008, through the lens of 365 ordinary days in which her reading, writing, and thinking about issues in the wider world--from wars and economic recession to climate change--caused her to reconsider and reshape daily practices in her personal life. Albert's journal provides an engaging...

"A quick-reading young adult biography exploring the history and mystery of the life of Eagle of Delight (Hayne Hudjihini), a teenage Otoe Indian woman from Nebraska whose portrait hangs in the White House. In 1821 she journeyed east with her husband and fifteen other Plains Indian chiefs to visit the president. There, she became one of the first Native American women ambassadors and the 'Darling of Washington D.C. Society.' Her 1822 portrait and...

"California, 1884: A clipper ship belonging to Connelly-Wilson Shipping is attacked by a mysterious black vessel which displays amazing speed and deadly weaponry. The clipper ship is sunk with all hands, save one survivor. Only days later, another Connelly-Wilson ship is sunk by the same black vessel; this time there are no survivors. Weeks later, a Connelly railroad trestle is dynamited, with loss of life narrowly avoided. Then another, sending a...

Kathryn grew up in a well-to-do home in Toronto. But after her father's death she has to move to Alberta - to live with an aunt she's never met. She soon discovers that Aunt Belle lives in a shack in the small community of River Falls. Her father never told her about the hard struggles of her Metis relations. She begins to learn about them from Aunt Belle. A mysterious Highwayman appears. The local officials want to get rid of him, but he seems to...