Walliams, David
Summary: This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth. When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she's determined to discover more. A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime-- from London to the heart of the Arctic!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY. Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla. But with German bombs raining over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smiths Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: Aspiring archaeologist Betsy Hayes finds herself in the heart of two often-overlooked wars in history: the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish-American War, finding love and friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School and her first assignment is serving as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Royalist plot to unseat Bonaparte, and Laura's mission is to report any suspicious findings. Soon, Laura and Jaouen are forced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011
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Summary: A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real-world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: A tale based on the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only Americans put to death for espionage during the Cold War, traces the experiences of their friend and neighbor, who takes in the couple's young sons when they are arrested by the FBI in 1950.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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Summary: "1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022
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Summary: When Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson is found in the woods nearby. Then a diamond hairpin is found in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of the millionaire. Daisy Buchanan once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: 1959. Margie Franklin is working in Philadelphia as a secretary at a Jewish law firm. On the surface she lives a quiet life, but Margie has a secret: a life she once lived, a past and a religion she has denied, and a family and a country she left behind. Margie is really Margot Frank, older sister of Anne, who did not die in Bergen-Belsen as reported, but who instead escaped the Nazis for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "Germany, 1931: Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately feels a powerful chemistry. Soon they fall in love and plan for the future. But Hanna is Jewish and Max is not, and as their love affair unfolds over the next five years, their love is tested when Hitler rises to power. Unbeknownst to Hanna, however, Max has a secret--a secret that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cantor 2019Cantor, Jillian
Summary: Austria, 1938. Kristoff is a young apprentice to a master Jewish stamp engraver. When his teacher disappears during Kristallnacht, Kristoff is forced to engrave stamps for the Germans, and simultaneously works alongside Elena, his beloved teacher's fiery daughter, and with the Austrian resistance to send underground messages and forge papers. As he falls for Elena amidst the brutal chaos of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANHunter, Jillian.
Summary: The Duke of Gravenhurst, the notorious author of dark romances, is accused of corrupting the morals of the public. But among his most devoted fans is the well-born Lily Boscastle, who seeks employment as the duke's personal housekeeper. Only then does she discover scandalous secrets about the man that she never could have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Select Book 2010
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Summary: Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILCather, Willa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cather 1992Willig, Lauren.
Summary: Determined to secure another London season without assistance from her new brother-in-law, Mary Alsworthy accepts a secret assignment from Lord Vaughn on behalf of the Pink Carnation: to infiltrate the ranks of the dreaded French spy, the Black Tulip, before he and his master can stage their planned invasion of England. Every spy has a weakness, and for the Black Tulip that weakness is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2008
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Summary: "2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house--with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Eschewed by her wealthy Smith College classmates, a former scholarship student reluctantly volunteers to join a group of graduates who travel to Europe to help World War I French civilians before finding herself surrounded by desperate families in villages decimated by German bombs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: 19-year-old Letty Alsworthy and Lord Geoffrey Pinchingdale-Snipe marry quickly, but he flees to Ireland the night of his elopement. Letty tracks him down in Dublin, learn of his secret life as a spy and gets sucked into it herself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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Summary: An atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Summary: Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling exploits. Instead, she is sent to serve as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Royalist plot, and Laura's mission is to report anything suspicious. As...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2011
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Summary: September 1896: As an aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into a very male-dominated field and find work at some of the world's most famous excavation sites. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in philanthropist Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: September 1896: As an aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into a very male-dominated field and find work at some of the world’s most famous excavation sites. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in philanthropist Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WILBradshaw, Gillian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2010