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Hand, Cynthia

Summary: When two masterminds--Mary, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron--are brought together by fate, they make a shocking--and magical--discovery that draws the attention of a mad scientist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAN

Auxier, Jonathan

Summary: In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUX

Springer, Nancy.

Summary: After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPR

Springer, Nancy.

Summary: While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SPR

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPR

Ahlberg, Allan.

Summary: Catching a baby in his hat sets off a series of adventures for a young nineteenth-century English boy as he becomes a sea captain and finds a surprising mate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AHL

Kent, Alexander.

Summary: Filled with high-seas intrigue and sharp tensions, this nautical novel takes an intense voyage into the heart of Napoleonic-era Africa. The year is 1819 and Captain Adam Bolitho has been sent on an urgent but risky mission to make a fast passage from Plymouth to Freetown, West Africa, with secret orders for the senior officer stationed there. Due to the slave trade being declared illegal, ships...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Summary: An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England where he becomes heir to a title and a fortune.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995

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Kirwan, Anna.

Summary: In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess. Includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KIR

Marsh, Sarah

Summary: "Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MAR

Follett, Ken

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOL

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOL

Follett, Ken

2 holds on 11 copies

Summary: "The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOL
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOL

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Follett

Follett, Ken

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The spinning jenny, a device that reduced the amount of work required to produce cloth, was patented in 1770 and a new era of industry changed lives everywhere. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a young man unexpectedly inherits a failing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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Cookson, Catherine.

Summary: The story of a woman whose fateful choices as a young woman exact a terrible toll not only on her life, but on the lives of those dearest to her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COO

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COO

Marston, Edward.

Summary: London, 1851. The London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, injuring the driver and others aboard. With teh opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways. But not everyone is celebrating. Planned with military precision, this crime challenges the new Police force to its limits and leads Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2004

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Cornwell, Bernard.

Summary: In the year 1810 Napoleon is determined to conquer Portugal. But Captain Richard Sharpe leads the French directly into the Duke of Wellington's devastating defenses at Torres Vedras, where one of the great battles of the Napoleonic wars erupts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COR

Dubowski, Cathy East.

Summary: A simplified, abridged version of Black Beauty's experiences with both good and bad masters in nineteenth-century England.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2009

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE DUB

Stuart, Anne (Anne Kristine)

Summary: Bryony and her sisters are left alone and destitute after the disgrace and death of their father, so Bryony disguises herself as a servant in the house of the Earl of Kilmartyn in order to find the truth and clear her father's name.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake Romance 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Sarah

Summary: Expected to make an advantageous marriage, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott rebels shortly before her betrothal is announced and flees, throwing herself into charitable work and befriending a group of similarly-minded, independent women.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAR

Saunders, Kate

Summary: It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he had taken to wandering...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAU

Sewell, Anna

Summary: This classic story is told in the words of Black Beauty, a sleek, well-bred horse. He tells of his shock at leaving a pleasant meadow in the country for the dark streets of Victorian London, with little idea what is in store for him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2019

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Larsen, Samantha

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Summary: "1784 England. Officially hired as the librarian for the Duchess of Beaufort, Miss Tiffany Woodall is through with masquerades and murders for good. That is, until she stumbles upon the frozen dead body of former footman Mr. Bernard Coram. The speed with which her peaceful new life is upended is one for the record books: the justice of the peace immediately declares her the primary suspect in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2024

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Macdonald, Malcolm

Summary: John Stevenson is a just a foreman when a near-fatal accident brings young Nora Telling into his life. Her nimbleness of mind and his power of command enable them to take over the working mill and rescue it from catastrophe. Together with their friends the Thorntons-who are troubled by a marriage mismatched in passion-they are willing to risk any dare, commit themselves to any act of cunning on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

Robards, Karen.

Summary: He was her husband, her lover, the pirate who seized her body, then stole her heart. Lady Catherine Aldley fled England to make a home with the infamous Jonathan Hale in Carolina. But their perfect life was shattered when Cathy was summoned to England to her ailing father, and discovered that her marriage to Jonathan was a sham. He was a wanted man, one step from the gallows. The only way she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROB

Campbell-Slan, Joanna.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLA

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