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Hannah, Kristin

18 holds on 2 copies

Summary: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Donoghue, Emma

Summary: Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Emma Donoghue presents a novel based on the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. As their friendship...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DON

Follett, Ken

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Runyan, Aimie K.

Summary: This novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUN

Hoffman, Alice

Summary: Ivy Jacob's ever-disappointed mother and stern father react badly to news of her teen pregnancy, prompting her to run away from her tiny Boston home for Western Massachusetts, where she's embraced by a group called The Community. There, she gives birth to her daughter, Mia, and marries the group's charismatic but controlling leader, Joel, when Mia is three months old. The Community's rules are...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Abé, Shana

Summary: 1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and self-made multimillionaire, is drawn to Arabella from their first meeting. Collis is married and thirty years her senior, yet they are well-matched in temperament, and flirtation rapidly...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Abe

Joshi, Alka

Summary: Immersed in her exciting perfume work, Radha hears that her unacknowledged son is coming to Paris to find her, which could upset her career and threaten to destroy a vulnerable marriage.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Willig, Lauren

Summary: Aspiring archaeologist Betsy Hayes finds herself in the heart of two often-overlooked wars in history: the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish-American War, finding love and friendship.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Scottoline, Lisa

Summary: Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Walls, Jeannette

Summary: Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father's daughter, sharp-witted...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WAL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC WAL

Johnson, Sadeqa

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

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Gregory, Philippa

Summary: It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Winspear, Jacqueline

Summary: Late September, 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft. When she returns to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, tied up and gagged. Jo hurries away, but can't shake the image of the serviceman from her mind. Several days later, when Jo recounts the story to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Kelly, Julia

Summary: When it's announced that 1958 will be the last year debutantes are to be presented at court, thousands of eager mothers and hopeful daughters flood the palace with letters seeking the year's most coveted invitation: a chance for their daughters to curtsey to the young Queen Elizabeth and officially come out into society. In an effort to appease her traditional mother, aspiring university...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Gabaldon, Diana

Summary: "It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell's teakettle. Jamie...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB

Towles, Amor

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the working farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother is long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett intends to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But when the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC TOW

Kearsley, Susanna

Summary: In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Scottish Highlands to the Borderlands are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England. Queen Anne has sent money up from London for Scots who took part eight years earlier in the ill-fated Darien expedition that left Scotland all but bankrupt. A young widow comes forward to collect her husband's portion of this money, but...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Doerr, Anthony

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DOE

Wood, Tracey Enerson

Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Penner, Sarah

Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Quinn, Kate

Summary: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything, but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl. Imperious self-made Mab, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC QUI

Kline, Christina Baker

Summary: Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Allende, Isabel

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

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