Thom, James Alexander.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOStockwin, Julian.
Summary: "Word has come from the British ambassador Arbuthnot that the neutral Turks are being wooed by the French and if the ancient city of Constantinople falls into their hands, Napoleon's route to India will be completely unfettered and his plans for world domination a reality. Concerned for his safety, Arbuthnot is demanding a large fleet presence to take him off and bring the Turks to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press, Inc. 2014
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Summary: "As the captain of a useful frigate, Kydd is claimed by the Leeward Islands station, exchanging the harsh situation in South America for the warmth and delights of the Caribbean. It's a sea change for Kydd, who revisits places and people that figured in his time as a young seaman. Some are nostalgic and pleasing, while others bring challenges of a personal nature. In Europe, Napoleon is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Newly victorious at the Battle of Trafalgar, England now rules the seas and is free to colonize the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Thomas Kydd joins an expedition to take Dutch-held Cape Town, a strategic harbor that will give England a rich trade route to India. With enemies lurking on all sides, Kydd and his men must defend the fragile colony while braving Africa's vast and hostile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2011
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Summary: Thomas Kydd's ship, part of a makeship fleet from South Africa under Commodore Home Popham, invades Buenos Aires in hopes of a treasure of silver, only to find the local population, instead of rising against the Spanish, uniting against them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOKorkeakivi, Anne
Summary: When Michael Gannon, war hero and devout Catholic, dies on the front lawn of their yellow house in California in 1962, his wife Barbara and their children must learn to manage without him. They find themselves charting paths they never anticipated, from the beaches of Southern California to the Woodstock rock festival, from London's gritty nightlife to Scotland's remote Inner Hebrides, from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KORBehar, Ruth
Summary: "Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BEHAlvarez, Julia
Summary: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
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Elliott, Laura
Summary: Abandoned by her father after Black Tuesday, thirteen-year-old Bea convinces Mrs. Scott to take in her and her sister in exchange for farm work and Bea bonds with a seemingly untrainable horse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELLSepetys, Ruta
Summary: Racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia, and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: "As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEPRobards, Karen.
Summary: He was her husband, her lover, the pirate who seized her body, then stole her heart. Lady Catherine Aldley fled England to make a home with the infamous Jonathan Hale in Carolina. But their perfect life was shattered when Cathy was summoned to England to her ailing father, and discovered that her marriage to Jonathan was a sham. He was a wanted man, one step from the gallows. The only way she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: Chronicles the harrowing journey of eleven women across the American west and their efforts to settle in California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIRIbbotson, Eva
Summary: Maia, an orphan, can't wait to reach her distant relatives a thousand miles up the Amazon. She imagines a loving family with whom she will share great adventures. Instead she finds two spiteful cousins who see the jungle as the enemy and refuse to go outdoors. But the wonders of the rainforest more than make up for the hideous twins and their parents. And when Maia meets a mysterious boy who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Children's Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC IBBRoberts, Tara Karr
Summary: "Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Russell, Sean
Summary: While on route to the Caribbean to meddle with French shipping to the colonies, Captain Charles Hayden must deal with two dilemmas when the HMS Themis first rescues a suspicious pair of Spanish castaways whose origins and agenda are suspect, and then stumbles across a crippled slave ship. Upon arriving at the Barbados station, he finds himself under the command of the impetuous and foolhardy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSWhite, Jenny B. (Jenny Barbara)
Summary: "The naked body of an Englishwoman washes up in Ottoman Istanbul wearing a pendant with the sultan's seal. This debut novel captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The murder of an English governess for the royal harem stirs up a crisis at the palace and at the British embassy. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHISee, Lisa
Summary: Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on a Korean island, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working with their village's all-female diving collective. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook's differences are impossible to ignore. Little do the two friends know that after surviving hundreds of dives and developing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction See 2019Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction SeeThoene, Bodie
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOCussler, Clive
Summary: "In the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles but discovers something much more sinister. Whoever broke into this Winchester factory wasn't looking to take weapons; they wanted to leave a radio transmitter, set to summon a fleet of dreaded German U-boats. Someone is trying to keep American supplies from reaching British shores. Bell must hunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CUSLeZotte, Ann Clare
Summary: Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEZJefferies, Dinah
Summary: "In 1920s Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), a young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences"--Adapted from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jefferies 2015Piercy, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PIEHarrison, Kathryn.
Summary: Sent north to Anchorage, Alaska, to establish an observatory in 1915, Bigelow, a young scientist, finds himself unprepared for the loneliness of a frontier railroad town and becomes driven by his all-consuming love for an enigmatic woman known as the Aleut.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002