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Summary: "An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MATWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHEFarrant, Natasha
Summary: In the aftermath of World War I, two orphaned friends set off in a narrowboat from England as each hopes to find a missing part of themselves in France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FARHope, Anna
Summary: "Hettie, a dance instructress at the Palais, lives at home with her mother and her brother, mute and lost after his return from the war. One night, at work, she meets a wealthy, educated man and has reason to think he is as smitten with her as she is with him. Still there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach... Evelyn works at the Pensions Exchange through which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: fiction Hope 2014Summary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROYFollett, Ken.
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families-- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FollettBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction BradfordFollett, Ken.
Summary: Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, Welsh--enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLScott, Caroline
Summary: "With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat... England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Stella Douglas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.0823 WILSummary: Miranda Richardson and Tom Hollander star as Queen Mary and King George V. After discovering that their son Prince John (Daniel Williams and Matthew Thomas) suffers from epilepsy and learning disabilities, the royals have the boy sent off to be raised in a rural farmhouse, lest he tarnish the family's image of superiority. Removed from the public eye and the attention of his parents, Prince...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOSBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRANicolson, Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.083 NICBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors did over the centuries. Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there with his wife Felicity and their six children: Guy, theheir, who is studying at Cambridge; their younger son Miles, attending Eton; and their four daughters Diedre, Daphne, DeLacy and Dulcie,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bradford 2014Follett, Ken.
Summary: This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken.
Summary: This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Follett 2012Perry, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERTodd, Charles.
Summary: A murder leads World War I nurse Bess Crawford into the clutches of a wily killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TODCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Todd 2010King, Laurie R.
Summary: Left with an extraordinary sensitivity that allows him to determine the lies and deceptions of everyday life with a mere touch after the Great War, Bennett Grey lives a reclusive life until he is called in by the British government to find a terrorist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINGramont, Nina de
Summary: "Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. 'A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DEGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAAtkinson, Kate
Summary: "1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ATKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATKEccles, Marjorie.
Summary: "The year is 1919 and Great Britain is still struggling to its feet after being hit by the atrocities of the First World War. Former police sergeant Herbert Reardon returns home, determined to finally find out what happened the night that his daughter, Marianne, was found drowned in the lake. When a maid is found murdered in exactly the same spot, Reardon is convinced that the two cases are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011