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American Revolution (1775-1783) England Fiction Fantasy fiction Great Britain History Henry VII, 1485-1509 Fiction Large type books of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England Margaret 1430-1482 Fiction United States United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction West United States Witches FictionThorland, Donna.
Summary: "British Occupied Manhattan, 1777. With her witty comedies, American actress Jennifer Leighton has been packing the John Street Theater, but she longs to escape the provincial circuit for the glamour of the London stage. When the playwright General John Burgoyne visits the city, fresh from a recent success on the Continent, she seizes the opportunity to court his patronage. But her plan is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library, Published by the Penguin Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThorland, Donna
Summary: "The acclaimed author of Mistress Firebrand and The Turncoat continues "her own revolution in American historical romance"* with another smart, sexy, swashbuckling novel set during the American Revolution. Manhattan and the Hudson River Valley, 1778. The British control Manhattan, the Rebels hold West Point, and the Dutch patroons reign in feudal splendor over their vast Hudson River Valley...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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Summary: P.G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master’s work ever published—beautifully designed and faithful to the original. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WODThorland, Donna
Summary: Rebel Kate Gray cannot resist the advances of British Major Peter Tremayne, but after a member of her own family steals his military dispatches, Peter, having narrowly escaped hanging, vows to get revenge on Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThorland, Donna.
Summary: "1775, Boston Harbor. The gold is Spanish, the sloop is American, and the captain is dead. James Sparhawk, master and commander in the British Navy, knows trouble when he sees it. The ship he's boarded is carrying ammunition for ballast and a fortune in foreign gold ... into a country on the very knife's edge of war. Sparhawk's duty is clear: confiscate the bullion, impound the vessel, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOCooper, James Fenimore
Summary: With his second novel, The Spy:A Tale of the Neutral Ground, in 1821, James Cooper (the Fenimore would come later) found his true voice and what became his most enduring subject matter: the history of his young nation, born of the clash between Old World and New. Set largely in Westchester County--site of the real-life intrigues of Benedict Arnold and Major John Andre--The Spy traces the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOTurner, Ann Warren.
Summary: In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TURIggulden, Conn.
Summary: Winter 1461--Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Yet in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IGGGuin, Jerry
Summary: "Sam Bass was just a farm boy from Indiana, but he wound up in Texas and became one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of the Old West. Texas history has often referred to Bass as "Texas' Beloved Bandit" or "Robin Hood on a Fast Horse." Jerry Guin's historical novel The Bandit takes an unflinching look at the life and times of Sam Bass, from his almost accidental incursion into a life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GUISummary: "For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres. Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOBIggulden, Conn.
Summary: It is 1454 and for over a year King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness, his eyes vacant, his mind a blank. His fiercely loyal wife and Queen, Margaret of Anjou, safeguards her husband's interests, hoping that her son Edward will one day come to know his father. With each month that Henry is all but absent as king, Richard, the Duke of York,...
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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 IGGIggulden, Conn.
Summary: After gentle Henry VI takes the throne and is promised a royal bride from France, the rival royal line, the House of York, begins their quest to oust him.
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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 IGGOke, Janette
Summary: In Alberta, the star-crossed romance between Martin Forbes, a young white missionary, and Running Fawn, an Indian maiden. She is one of his most promising pupils, but so is Silver Fox and it is he who gets her in the end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKEIggulden, Conn.
Summary: "The brilliant retelling of the Wars of the Roses continues with Margaret of Anjou, the second gripping novel in the new series from historical fiction master Conn Iggulden. As Traitors Advance...A Queen Defends It is 1454 and for over a year King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness, his eyes vacant, his mind a blank. His fiercely loyal wife and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Iggulden 2015Griffin, James J.
Summary: "Tangling with rustlers, bank robbers, and road agents is all in a day's work for Turnbo as he fights to bring law and order to the area around Abilene and San Angelo, Texas, but solving a deadly mystery will put Turnbo's life in more danger than ever before. It'll take all of the Ranger's wits and gun-handling skills to keep him alive as he untangles the strands of a lethal conspiracy!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIIggulden, Conn.
Summary: After gentle Henry VI takes the throne and is promised a royal bride from France, the rival royal line, the House of York, begins their quest to oust him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGGGoldberg, Leonard S.
Summary: "In the west end of London, an apparently crazed individual is on the loose, breaking into art galleries and private homes to slash valuable paintings of women. Despite Scotland Yard's best efforts, the criminal remains at large and continues on his destructive path. When Joanna and the Watsons are called in to solve the mystery, they soon discover that although the canvases have been slashed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLLynch, Sean
Summary: "As both a former Confederate guerilla and Texas Ranger, and now a U.S. Marshal, no one knows the dangers of the frontier and cowtowns like Marshal Samuel Pritchard. A couple of wagon trains traveling the Oregon Trail have vanished and Pritchard's got miles of bad road across hostile territory to investigate. But he must also reckon with a price on his head. Bounty hunter Captain Laird Bonner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LYNRoripaugh, Robert A.
Summary: One of the most acclaimed Western novels of the past fifty years, Robert A. Roripaugh's masterful story of range war and its victims on both sides of the fence transports readers back to 1889 Wyoming with a rare power, richness, and truth. It is a gripping tale of ranchers and homesteaders; of honored tradition holding brutally firm against the onslaught of changing times; and of a family torn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RORRuiz Zafón, Carlos
Summary: "The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale--a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a light on the dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUIVuillard, ©ric
Summary: "February 20, 1933: on an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter, a meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi dignitaries is being held in secret in the plush lounges of the Reichstag. They are there to "stump up" funding for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its fearsome Chancellor. This inaugural scene sets the tone of consent which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VUIPfarrer, Chuck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PFASteel, Charlie
Summary: The discovery of gold in California launched a stampede of fortune-seekers across the continent in search of wealth. Willing to face any hardship -- outlaws, hostile Indians, bad weather, thirst, starvation, and the horrors of disease -- they battled fiercely to overcome these challenges and seize their destiny. But sometimes the treasures they found were not the ones they were expecting . . .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEBrackston, Paula
Summary: "A new series about a young woman whose connection to antiques takes her on a magical adventure. New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter, Paula Brackston returns to her trademark blend of magic and romance to launch a new series guaranteed to enchant her audience even more. Xanthe and her mother Flora leave London behind for a fresh start, taking over an antique shop in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018