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Miro, J. M.

Summary: "England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness-a man made of smoke. Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIR

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIR

Meissner, Susan

Summary: "April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEI

Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOD

Iggulden, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Iggulden, 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,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Guin, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GUI

Iggulden, 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Jemc, Jac

Summary: History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But to each other they were Ludwig and Sisi, cousins who shared a passion for beauty and a stubborn refusal to submit to the roles imposed upon them. Ludwig, simultaneously spoiled and punished for his softness...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEM

Iggulden, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Iggulden 2015

Oke, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKE

Griffin, 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!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRI

Iggulden, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGG

Goldberg, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOL

Lynch, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LYN

Ruiz 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUI

Thorland, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Cooper, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COO

Thorland, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Vuillard, ©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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VUI

Vuillard, Éric

Summary: "From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843 VUI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 843 VUI

Steel, 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 . . .

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STE

Brackston, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BRA

Thorland, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library, Published by the Penguin Group 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Turner, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TUR

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