Lauer, Amanda
Summary: "The Civil War rages around her, yet Brigid McGinnis has her life planned out. That was, until she stumbles across an unconscious Confederate soldier on her father's property. A blow to the head stole Dominic Warner's memory. The beautiful fraulein who nurses him back to health steals something even more important--his heart. For political and societal reasons, Brigid and Dominic must go their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Full Quiver Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUEven, Aaron Roy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVECornwell, Bernard.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to his epic Saxon Tales saga with The Pagan Lord, a dramatic story of divided loyalties, bloody battles, and the struggle to unite Britain.At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Cornwell 2014Armstrong, Kelley.
Summary: "Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin's Minotaur 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEWilkinson, Gina
Summary: At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat--the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print. 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILRobertson, Robbie
Summary: Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation. Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives inches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SCHMasih, Tara Lynn
Summary: "A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2018
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Summary: It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Nazemian 2019Riley, Lucinda.
Summary: "The story of Merope, the missing sister, is waiting to be told ... Following Georg Hoffman's revelation that he may have found The Missing Sister, Maia and Ally discover that all they have to go on is an address of a vineyard in New Zealand, plus a drawing of an unusual star-shaped emerald ring. Deciding that CeCe, who lives in Australia, is the closest, they send her to investigate with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Box Press, an imprint of Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Riley 2020Noble, Shelley
Summary: "Philomena Amesbury, Dowager Countess of Dunbridge, was not about to let a little thing like the death of her husband ruin her social life. She's come to New York City, ready to take the dazzling world of Gilded Age Manhattan by storm. She finds excitement when an early morning visitor arrives, begging for her help. After all, Lady Phil has been known to be useful in a crisis. Especially when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NOBPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC POWSmiley, Jane
Summary: Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Hugh Breedlove is far from the most agreeable client private investigator Frank Malloy has ever had, but his case is impossible to refuse: his young niece, Julia, has been wrongfully committed to an insane asylum by her cruel and unfaithful husband, Chet Longly. Though Breedlove and his wife seem more interested in protecting the family reputation than their niece's safety, Frank and Sarah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOWalls, Jeannette
Summary: "Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born into comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WALHannah, Kristin
Summary: "'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P BLABrightwell, Emily
Summary: "Mrs. Jeffries and Inspector Witherspoon should be checking off their Christmas present list but instead they're listing murder suspects in this latest entry of the beloved Victorian Mystery series. Harriet Andover had no intention of dying young like her silly siblings had. She intended to outlive them and outdo them as she always had. But Harriet discovers that the best intentions can lead to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRISteel, Danielle
Summary: Against the electrifying backdrop of the 1960s, Danielle Steel unveils the gripping chronicle of a young woman discovering a passion for justice and of the unsung heroes she encounters on her quest to fight the good fight. The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEJoel, Alexandra
Summary: A stunning novel of love, betrayal and family secrets for all fans of Fiona McIntosh and Natasha Lester. Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, the world's newly acclaimed emperor of fashion, Grace mixes with counts and princesses,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Joel 2020Feldman, Ellen
Summary: "Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II when the men were coming home, the women were exhaling in relief, and everyone was having babies, The Trouble with You is the story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Seven Sisters Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC KNOVanderLugt, Dana
Summary: Based on a true story and told in alternating voices, follows the growing friendship between thirteen-year-old American Claire and Karl, a young German POW hired to work on her family's Michigan apple farm in October 1944.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Book Club Kit, Call number: YOUTH BOOK CLUB KIT FIC VANBennett, Brit
Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021