Fellowes, Jessica
Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid, Louisa Cannon Sullivan, is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FELJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Smoke Jensen is mighty proud of his son Louis for finishing law school. But he can't help being a little disappointed that Louis isn't returning to the Sugarloaf Ranch. Instead, he's setting up his own law practice in nearby Big Rock--a career choice that turns out to be every bit as dangerous as fending off cattle rustlers. The boy's first case lands him smack in the middle of a heated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHGramont, 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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Summary: "1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm. Even at seventeen, Arabella possesses an unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and...
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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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction BradfordFellowes, Jessica
Summary: "The year is 1928, and after the death of a maid at a glamorous society party, fortune heir Bryan Guinness seizes life and proposes to eighteen-year-old Diana, most beautiful of the six Mitford sisters. The maid's death is ruled an accident, and the newlyweds put it behind them to begin a whirlwind life zipping between London's Mayfair, chic Paris and hedonistic Berlin. Accompanying Diana as...
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FELChevalier, Tracy
Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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Summary: The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poiters and French King John II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Cornwell 2013Marsh, 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...
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler's deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep Lilith hidden, so Ally sets in motion a dangerous and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction CorreaClark, Cassandra.
Summary: In the midst of a long, bleak winter in the year 1383, a brave and brilliant nun embarks on a quest for a precious relic. She will need remarkable skills to survive because there are many who want her mission to fail--and one, above all, who plans a deadly revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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Summary: The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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Summary: "In post World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets . . . With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since...
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FOXBowen, Rhys
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the First World War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: British World War I nurse Bess Crawford travels to Ireland for her best friend's wedding and unravels a dark, deceptive plot when the bridegroom goes missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TODEllicott, Jessica
Summary: "Neither Beryl nor Edwina are the least bit interested in attending events at their alma mater, Miss Dupont's Finishing School for Young Ladies. However, when a letter arrives from Miss Dupont herself requesting their help, they pack their bags. Upon arrival, they learn that students have reported items missing, damaged possessions, and strange noises in the night. Then a mother of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by Northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When her native state seceded in April 1861, Van Lew's convictions compelled her to defy the new Confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Lincoln White House, her courage would never waver, even as her wartime actions threatened not only her reputation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "In the lean years following World War I, brash American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport form a private inquiry agency to make ends meet, hoping that crime does indeed pay . . . The latest occurrence to disturb the peace in the quaint English village of Walmsley Parva hits rather too close to home-in fact, the prime suspect has taken up residence in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the...
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ESCHoffman, Alice
Summary: A "story of one Jewish child refugee's flight to safety in Nazi Germany and her mother's impossible decision to set her free"--
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOFEllicott, Jessica
Summary: "Set in a charming English village just after WWI, Jessica Ellicott's winning series returns to the witty antics of delightfully mismatched friends and sleuths-of-a-certain-age, Beryl and Edwina. Their personalities couldn't be more different -Beryl is a brash, adventurous American, while Edwina is a prim and proper Brit-but the pair have a knack for solving mysteries. Now they've been hired to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: "Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023