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Jacks, Janie

Summary: Being a military family means always moving forward, rarely looking back--no matter what might happen in one's life. But when a letter arrives at the Jacks house only to remain unopened, Becky Jacks finds herself torn between the most uncurious mother on the planet and her own deep need to know what news the letter brings. On the other side of the world, a war rages in Vietnam, one her mother...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Chang, Janie

Summary: After being abandoned by her mother in 1908 Shanghai, a young Eurasian girl, Jialing, becomes the bondservant to the new owners of a grand estate until she befriends a young English girl who mysteriously disappears and forever changes her life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P CHA

Chang, Janie

Summary: "China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than a hundred students, faculty, and staff must walk a thousand miles to the safety of China's western provinces, a journey marred by hunger, cold, and the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Chang 2020

Makiya, Kanan

Summary: "From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, a gritty, unflinching, haunting novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American war. Told from the perspective of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could not anticipate, the novel examines the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal and victimhood....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAK

Zusak, Markus

Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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Boyadjian, Maral

Summary: It is 1913 and late summer in the Ottoman Empire. The sun rises, full and golden, atop a lush, centuries-old village tucked into the highlands where the blood-red poppies bloom. Outside the village leader's home, the sound of voices carries past the grapevines to the lane where Anno, his youngest daughter, slips out unseen. She heads to a secret meeting place. She forgets that enemies surround...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Salor Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOY

Adler, Malka

Summary: "Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha's mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen... Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADL

Zusak, Markus.

3 holds on 4 copies

Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006

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Davies, Carys

Summary: "John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted....

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Chang, Janie

Summary: In 1918 France, in the final days of the First World War, Pauline Deng, a young Chinese woman escaping an arranged marriage, is taken in by secretive Camille Roussel and becomes bound to this woman forever when they are forced to make a terrible decision.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Saeed, Jamal

Summary: "Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAE

Lares, Mariely

Summary: In 16th-century New Spain, Lady Leonora, with witchcraft punishable by death, masquerades as Pantera, who uses her magic to fight the tyranny of Spanish rule-and who is doomed to a short life, and must fight to the end when an ancient prophecy of destruction threatens to come true.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LAR

Janes, Diane

Summary: Tom Dod's Aunt Hetty is worried -- three sudden deaths have occurred in the sleepy village of Durley Dean. They might seem like tragic accidents, but Aunt Hetty isn't so sure. After all, all three took a stand against Reverend Pinder, the new vicar of St Agnes Church, whose controversial changes have divided the congregation. But is there really a killer among the parishioners? And while Fran...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Janes 2018

Medawar, Mardi Oakley.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MED

Piercy, Marge.

Summary: Coming of age in a post-Civil War New York City tenement flat, Jewish-Russian Freydeh juggles multiple jobs to earn passage for her family, until she learns that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PIE

Panagopoulos, Janie Lynn.

Summary: Set in the Indian rebellions of 1763, this story tells of an angry Indian boy who joins the warriors who are headed to attack the English while still learning to deal with family relationships and his mother's ideas about peace instead of war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: River Road Publications 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAN

Hanks, Diane

Summary: In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an Army air base in Honolulu. On December 7, Annie's on her way to work when the first Japanese Zero fighter plane flies low over Hickam's parade ground. She rallies her nurses, and they work to save as many lives as they can. But soon, their small hospital is overwhelmed. Annie drives into Honolulu to gather supplies,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC HAN

Hanks, Tom

Summary: Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAN

Hanks, Tom

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

Jefferson, Marci.

Summary: "In 1660, the Restoration of Stuart Monarchy in England returns Frances Stuart and her family to favor. Frances discards threadbare gowns and goes to gilded Fontainebleau Palace, where she soon catches the Sun King's eye. But Frances is no ordinary courtbeauty--she has Stuart secrets to keep and her family to protect. King Louis XIV turns vengeful when she rejects his offer to become his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEF

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jefferson 2014

Hanna, Janice.

Summary: The year is 1914, and Jake O'Farrell has gained an unusual reputation among the locals. He's played the roles of groomsman and best man in all four of his older brothers' weddings, but he's never been able to find the right woman to capture his heart. And with the upcoming wedding of his best friend, Jake will become the last single man in the town of Groom. Anne Denning has made the difficult...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Summerside Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAN

March, Nev

Summary: "In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut. In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lays in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to read but newspapers. The case that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MAR

Hadlow, Janice

Summary: "What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAD

March, Nev

Summary: "Captain Jim Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana Framji, return in Nev March's Peril at the Exposition, the follow up to March's award-winning, Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay. 1893: Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston, Massachusetts, having fled the strict social rules of British-ruled Bombay. It's a different life than what...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

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