Kathleen Karr

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1984
  • Latest Book:
    May 2008
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Full Series List in Order

Matthew Morrissey

1 - Skullduggery (Mar-2000)
2 - Bone Dry (Aug-2002)

Related Books

1 - Gone West (Aug-1993)
2 - The Promised Land (Mar-1993)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Light of My Heart

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy
    Serenade Saga - 9

    His heart was as hard as the rockbound coast of Maine. Could the radiance of her love light their way? Emily -- Glowing with hope, she longed for the love of a husband she barely knew. Keith -- Dark and brooding, he was a man with a dismal past...

  • From This Day Forward

    Serenade Saga - 16

    What could be more precious than the gift of words - unless it was the man who brought them to her? Young Maggie McDonald was athirst for knowledge, and books contained knowledge, but Maggie couldn't read! Then lively Johnny Stewart burst into the ro...

  • Oh, Those Harper Girls!

    When Daddy Harper's Texas ranch falls on hard times, his plucky daughters pull a stagecoach robbery to help out, and their subsequent adventures lead to a possible theater career back east. By the author of It Ain't Always Easy. ...

  • The Promised Land

    Related Books - 2
    Heartsong Inspirational Romance - 32

    NOW IN THE LAST MILES ON THE OREGON TRAIL, WILL JOHNNY AND MAGGIE STUART BE ROBBED OF THEIR CHERISHED DREAM? For Johnny and Maggie and their young family, the long journey West has been fraught with danger. They have been beset by hunger blisteri...

  • Gideon and the Mummy Professor

    In 1855, while performing a vaudeville act with his unpredictable father, the "Mummy Professor," the mummy in the act reveals to twelve-year-old Gideon the location of a treasure. By the author of It Ain't Always Easy. ...

  • Gone West

    Related Books - 1
    Heartsong Inspirational Romance - 23

    Johnny and Maggie Stuart, booksellers par excellence, are vibrantly young and full of faith as they begin their two-thousand-mile journey West to dispense the Word and their own special brand of love in the untamed wilderness. Ever the dreamer, Jo...

  • The Cave

    Twelve-year-old Christine discovers a wonderful secret on her father's South Dakota farm--an unexplored cave with a secret of its own--something that might save her family from the drought and Depression that threaten to destroy the farm....

  • In the Kaiser's Clutch

    Starring in an anti-German World War I propaganda serial in the days before the "talkies," fifteen-year-old twins Fitzhugh and Nelly Dalton find their screen adventures paling in comparison to a real-life mystery. Jr Lib Guild....

  • Go West, Young Women!



  • Phoebe's Folly

    Now armed with rifles, the self-reliant women of the Petticoat Party wagon train continue their journey to Oregon City and face more challenges including a shooting contest with a band of Snake Indians...

  • Spy in the Sky

    When Thaddeus Lowe and his balloon fall from the sky, Ridley Jone's life was forever changed as he was asked to become Lowe's assistant and help launch the Balloon Corp for President Lincoln. Simultaneous....

  • The Great Turkey Walk

    Yeeeeeee-haw! Git along, little . . . turkeys?

    Big, brawny Simon Green, who's just completed third grade (for the fourth time), may not be book smart, but he's nobody's fool. When it's time to be done with school and make his way in the worl...

  • Lighthouse Mermaid

    Although Kate loves to dream about being a mermaid, she puts her dreams aside when her father, the lighthouse keeper, leaves the lighthouse and puts Kate in charge of steering the boats to safety by keeping the lighthouse lit throughout the night. Si...

  • Oregon, Sweet Oregon

    Having arrived in Oregon City after a harrowing journey, Phoebe and her companions struggle to adjust to their new home, and finding that she misses the life she left behind, Phoebe is dismayed to see her friends settling down. Original....

  • Gold-Rush Phoebe

  • Skullduggery

    Matthew Morrissey - 1

    In 1839, twelve-year-old Matthew's job as assistant to the phrenologist Dr. Cornwall takes him up and down the Eastern Seaboard and to Europe, as they rob graves and try to find out who is following them and why....

  • Chessie's King

    Serenade Saga - 38

    As she went down into the inky depths Chessie's mind went wild. She could not swim... From the moment brash bargeman Erasmous (Rass) King rescued her from the murky canal waters, Catherine Ophelia Cunningham had difficulty being betoken to this self-...

  • Playing with Fire


    A highly spirited mystery

    Burdened by her uncanny ability to see people's auras, Greer is happy to leave overcrowded New York City, where her mother, Madame Camille, earns a meager living as a fortune-teller, to summer at a mansion on Long...

  • Bone Dry

    Matthew Morrissey - 2

    It is said that the Sahara Desert swallows the past. For Matthew Morrissey and his mentor, the eminent phrenologist Dr. Asa B. Cornwall, there's also the danger of its swallowing their present. In their search for the skull of Alexander the Great, Ma...



  • The Seventh Knot

    Two brothers touring Europe in the 19th century become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer's knot woodcuts and a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle's enigmatic missing valet....

  • Set Me Free

    In prison, there are few secrets. But Libby Dodge, the youngest inmate, guards the nature of her crime from the other women, even as they openly recount their former lives as arsonists, thieves, and prostitutes. Libby's hopeless and miserable situati...

  • The Boxer

    Hard-hitting historical fiction

    Ever since his father ran off two years before, fifteen-year-old Johnny Woods has struggled to help support his ma and five siblings, sacrificing his own schooling in the process. Still, there's been hardly en...

  • Gilbert & Sullivan Set Me Free

    Based on a true incident, this moving novel tells the story of a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's “Pirates of Penzance”―as performed by the inmates of a women's prison in 1914! Infused with music, beautifully researched and filled with fascin...

  • Worlds Apart

    Fifteen-year-old Christopher West befriends a young Native American boy his own age in the Carolinas in 1670. Christopher’s new friend teaches him how to hunt, forage, and respect the land and in exchange Christopher teaches his Sewee acquaintance ...

  • Exiled

    Ali is a young camel in Egypt when he is captured by humans. Determined to "work, but never surrender," he earns a reputation as a disobedient animal and is sold to an American colonel. The year is 1856 and Ali soon finds himself in Texas as part ...

  • The 7th Knot

    Wick and Miles, two brothers touring Europe in the 19th century, become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer's knot woodcuts and a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle's enigmatic missing valet. Reprint....

  • Born for Adventure

    When young Tom Ormsby cons his way onto the great explorer Henry Morton Stanley's "Relief of Emin Pasha Expedition" in 1887, he's looking for adventure. But he has no idea what lies ahead of him. From the exotic bazaars of Zanzibar to the mouth of th...

  • Fortune's Fool

    A well-mapped medieval road trip.--The Bulletin Orphaned and left to make his own way in the world, Conrad the Good serves as court jester to a most unworthy master: Lord Otto the Witless, who rarely appreciates jesting and acrobatics and more oft...

  • It Ain't Always Easy

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Living a precarious existence on the Lower East Side of New York in 1882, eleven-year-old street urchin Jack McConell joins forces with eight-year-old runaway Mandy Kerrigan, and the two of them leave the city to seek a new life...



  • Mama Went to Jail for the Vote

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    'Women are in chains, daughter!' Mama exclaims. 'We are half the population of this great nation, yet haven't any say in how it's run.' Susan Elizabeth's mother is always making statements like that. Mama is a suffragist, fighting for women's right t...

  • Man of the Family

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy


    A moving father-son story.

    At ten, Istvan Csere is learning from his father all about running the family's chicken farm in South Jersey. The father, a flamboyant, proud character who fled Hungary with Istvan's mother on the brink of the Fi...

Award-Winning Books by Kathleen Karr

From This Day Forward
1985 Golden Medallion -- Inspirational
The Seventh Knot
2003 Agatha Award -- Children/Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kathleen Karr has published 31 books.

Kathleen Karr does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fortune's Fool, was published in May 2008.

The first book by Kathleen Karr, Light of My Heart, was published in January 1984.

Yes. Kathleen Karr has 2 series.
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