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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUDruart, Ruth
Summary: A story told from alternating perspectives follows the experiences of a traumatized survivor of the Nazi occupation in France and a Jewish woman in wartime Paris who entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUDruart, Ruth
Summary: In 1963 Brittany, 18-year-old Josephine Chevalier uncovers a shocking secret about her mother that leads her to Paris where she learns the story of a forbidden love as a city fought for its freedom--and of a betrayal so deep, it changed two young lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRUKessler, Liz
Summary: While helping her father empty her beloved grandmother's house, 13-year-old Liv finds an old chest that reveals Oma's involvement in the Dutch resistance during WWII and learns what it means to be brave and go above and beyond to offer someone else a life of dignity, happiness and freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARTrenow, Liz
Summary: A shy girl with no family, Maria knows she's lucky to have landed in the sewing room of the royal household. Before World War I casts its shadow, she catches the eye of the Prince of Wales, a glamorous and intense gentleman. But her life takes a far darker turn, and soon all she has left is a fantastical story about her time at Buckingham Palace. Decades later, Caroline Meadows discovers a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2014
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Summary: A cynical rake joins a sinister game of cards with dangerously seductive stakes. Abandoned by her highborn father --until he decides to use her--Mademoiselle Camille Marchand puts no trust in an aristocrat's honor, especially that of the notorious Kieran, Baron Rothewell. She too is gambling--for her life--and Rothwell is just one more card to be used. But whatever dark desires run through his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARTolsma, Liz
Summary: The war is drawing to a close, but the Nazis still occupy part of the Netherlands. After the losses she's endured, war widow Cornelia is only a shadow of the woman she once was. She fights now to protect her younger brother, Johan, who lives in hiding. When Johan brings Gerrit Laninga, a wounded Dutch Resistance member, to Cornelia's doorstep, their lives are forever altered. Although scared of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Tolsma 2013Trenow, Liz
Summary: Interveaves the story of Maria, a seamstress in the royal household of Buckingham Palace, and Caroline Meadows who discovers a beautiful quilt in her mother's attic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRETrenow, Liz.
Summary: A shy girl with no family, Maria has landed in the sewing room of the royal household. Soon she catches the eye of the Prince of Wales. But her life takes a darker turn, and soon all she has left is a fantastical story about her time in the palace. Decades later, Caroline discovers a beautiful quilt in her mother's attic with a mysterious message embroidered into its lining. She embarks on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TREdeWitt, Patrick
Summary: "Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEWWard, Liza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WARKlaussmann, Liza
Summary: A tale based on the real-life inspirations for Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night finds expats Sara and Gerald Murphy sharing freewheeling days, hosting parties and hiding heartbreaking secrets in the 1920s French Riviera.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLAWieland, Liza
Summary: Reimagines the experiences of pre-fame poet Elizabeth Bishop during three life-changing weeks spent in Paris on the eve of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIEHiggs, Liz Curtis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGHiggs, Liz Curtis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2005
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Summary: Rose and Leana McBride both love the same man, but each must deal with her own choice when the Church Elders rule on what they see as an unusual and illegal situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGEnger, Lin
Summary: Abandoned by her husband and her two sons who went out to search for him, Gretta Pope must follow her family across the rugged badlands of 1880s Montana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGLi, Yiyun
Summary: "A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Summary: "December 15, 1965, Alabama, the fateful night that triggers an avalanche of events that turn newly engaged couple Melvin and Bernadette into fugitives. A pitstop in the wrong part of town ends with blood on their hands. Suspecting that cops are already following them, Melvin realizes the only way they'll survive is if they flee the country. Bernadette, who's hiding a secret from her fiancé,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAZShafak, Elif
Summary: In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Isanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAShafak, Elif
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire In her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACasey, Eliza
Summary: "When a dinner party turns deadly, the feisty Lady Cecilia Bates and intuitive cat Jack are on the case, in this first entry to an exciting new historical-mystery series. England 1912. Danby Hall is the only home Lady Cecilia Bates has ever known. Despite the rigid rules of etiquette and her mother the Countess of Avebury's fervent desire to see her married off, Lady Cecilia can't imagine life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CASPhillips, Gin.
Summary: Witnessing what she believes to be the murder of an infant in a Depression-era Alabama mining town, a nine-year-old girl and her civic-minded family subsequently struggle with the darker side of their racially torn community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts 2009