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Summary: "June 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva "Gin" Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to Oliver Anson Marshall, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of New York's most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime, the head of the notorious East Coast rum-running racket -- and Anson's mortal enemy -- turns up murdered at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co., an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILJames, Eloisa
Summary: Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for his dangerous adventures and rakish good looks. Arriving home from years abroad, he has no idea of his own celebrity, until his boat is met by mobs of screaming ladies. Alaric escapes to his father's castle, but just as he grasps that he's not only famous but notorious, he encounters the very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AvonBooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMMiller, Linda Lael
Summary: "In The Yankee Widow, gifted storyteller Linda Lael Miller explores the complexities and heartbreak that families experienced as men took up arms to preserve the nation and defend their way of life. Told in a smart, assured and compelling voice, this is the story of Caroline, the young wife and childhood sweetheart of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter, Rachel, just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MILKleypas, Lisa
Summary: Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, has never been tempted to embark on an affair. Until now.... Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, as gallant as he is secretive, is rumored to be an assassin. For one exhilarating night they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. As a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLECherezińska, Elżbieta
Summary: "Elzbieta Cherezinska's The Widow Queen is the epic story of a Polish queen whose life and name were all but forgotten until now. The bold one, they call her-too bold for most. To her father, the great duke of Poland, Swietoslawa and her two sisters represent three chances for an alliance. Three marriages on which to build his empire. But Swietoslawa refuses to be simply a pawn in her father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEGreen, Jocelyn.
Summary: "The farm of Union widow Liberty Holloway is confiscated and converted into a Confederate field hospital, bringing Liberty face-to-face with unspeakable suffering. In the wake of shattered homes and broken bodies, Liberty and Bella, her hired help and a former slave, struggle to pick up the fragments the battle has left behind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GREGrant, Sofia
Summary: "World War II has ended and American women are shedding their old clothes for the gorgeous new styles. Voluminous layers of taffeta and tulle, wasp waists, and beautiful colors, all so welcome after years of sensible styles and strict rationing. Jeanne Brink and her sister Peggy both had to weather every tragedy the war had to offer: Jeanne without the fianc©♭ she's counted on, Peggy now a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Grant 2017Harrison, Jamie
Summary: "It is New York, 1904, and Dulcy Remfrey, despite an idiosyncratic, traveling childhood, faces the predictable life of a woman of the time. All that changes when her eccentric father returns from his expedition to Africa without any of the proceeds from the sale of a gold mine. It seems he's lost his mind along with the money, and Dulcy's obsessive ex-fiance (and her father's business partner)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCampisi, Megan
Summary: "The author of the "magnificent...complex, vivid" (New York Journal of Books) Sin Eater returns with a rousing and propulsive novel based on the astonishing true story of the first female Pinkerton detective whose next assignment could end the Civil War. Kate Warner is many things: the country's first female detective, a Pinkerton agent, and a union spy. It's August 1863, and her latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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Summary: Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife's death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor. But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive widow who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXMiller, Linda Lael
Summary: "Caroline, the young wife and childhood sweetheart of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter, Rachel, just outside of Gettysburg. When Jacob joins the Northern army to do his duty and help save the Union, no one anticipates he will not return. Caroline gets news that he is wounded and has been taken to Washington, DC, with his regiment, and so she must find her way there and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: In the fall of 1950, the U.S. Marines confront an uphill battle as they make their way from Inchon across the 38th parallel, dealing with the full force of Chinese military might and the disappearance of an officer's son behind enemy lines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GriBlackwell, Lawana
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAWest, Charles
Summary: "Orphaned in a massacre. Raised by Crow Indians. Destined to become a powerful hunter, a legendary scout, and a true American hero . . . As a widower with three young boys, Duncan Hunter dreamed of a new life for his sons in the heart of Washington Territory. But the journey was doomed from the start. Before reaching Hell Gate, their wagon train was attacked by Blackfoot Indians. Most of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WESBruce, Camilla
Summary: "An audacious novel of feminine rage about one of the most prolific female serial killers in American history-and the men who drove her to it. They whisper about her in Chicago. Men come to her with their hopes, their dreams-their fortunes. But no one sees them leave. No one sees them at all after they come to call on the Widow of La Porte. The good people of Indiana may have their suspicions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUNix, David
Summary: "Since reluctantly accepting the marshal's job at South Pass City, Jake Paynter's life has become an unending run of solving other people's problems. When outlaw boss Dutch van Zandt and his ruthless band mount a campaign of mayhem in Jake's corner of the Wyoming Territory, Jake learns that Lucien Ashley, his persistent adversary, may be aiding the criminals to expand his burgeoning cattle...
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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 NIXSummary: Surviving the rugged frontier of Alaska is a daunting task. But even in that hostile wilderness, God allows the tender flower of love to bloom. From the gold rush, through a diphtheria epidemic, to the building of the Alcan Highway, each story is filled with human emotion - loneliness, anger, fear, joy, and love. But can romance truly flourish in a frozen frontier?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALADoherty, P. C.
Summary: Telamon, the great physician-detective of antiquity, investigates Persian spies as his master, Alexander the Great, heads to the city of Halicarnassus on his legendary march west.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2003