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In the country of others 2Chiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIBayard, Louis
Summary: "A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICCHILabatut, Benjamín
Summary: "A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas. A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LabatutRobuck, Erika
Summary: "A heart-stopping new novel, based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of WWII, from the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman. Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to resist. 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family's wishes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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Summary: "Princess Diana was the most famous woman in the world, celebrated across the globe for her poise and glamour. But before stepping out of the royal carriage at St. Paul's she spent nineteen years as the shy, awkward Lady Diana Spencer. How did the aristocrat ugly duckling become a beautiful royal swan? Bestselling author Wendy Holden explores the astonishing backstory and young adulthood of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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Summary: New York City 1921: The war is over, fashions are daring, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. Dorothy Parker: renowned wit, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and more fragile than she seems. Jane Grant: first female reporter for the New York Times, and determined to launch a new magazine she calls The New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAUGoodwin, Daisy
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Mallon, Thomas
Summary: "Up with the Sun is a fictional look back at the life of a little-known, C-list celebrity striver who met a bad end in New York City in the 1980s. Dick Kallman was an up-and-coming actor-until he wasn't. From co-starring in Broadway shows, to becoming part of Lucille Ball's historic Desilu workshop, and then finally landing his own short-lived primetime TV series, Dick's star was clearly on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALPeace, David
Summary: Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEATurnbull, Bryn
Summary: As unrest simmers, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov and her three sisters hide from the world on account of their mother's ill health, their brother Alexei's secret affliction, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin, the priest on whom the Tsarina has come to rely. As war approaches, Olga and her sisters trade their gowns for nursing habits, assisting in surgeries and tending to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TURCharyn, Jerome
Summary: "Narrated by a starry-eyed lesbian, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red reenvisions the life of one of America's most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of the 1940s. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHABenedict, Marie
Summary: "A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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Summary: "The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as his films are on exhibit, Sergio recalls the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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Summary: Morocco, 1968: Two siblings, unusual for their biracial parentage--their father is Moroccan, their mother French--search for their place in a world not made to fit them. Aicha, strong-willed and studious, dreams of leaving Morocco to study medicine in her mother's homeland. Her younger brother, Selim, the family's errant misfit, will forge a path of rebellion among the European hippies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLIFredericks, Mariah
Summary: "New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips--a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FREGoodwin, Daisy
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world.In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC GOOMorris, Heather
Summary: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: "It was supposed to be the highlight of her career, the pinnacle for which she'd worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreaking losses, and severe setbacks, this historic night of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TATEMcMillan, Claire
Summary: Fleeing the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her poet lover await exit papers from a safe house on the Riviera and take refuge in a mysterious bookshop that opens up a world of occult learning that sparks creative genius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: "'Three times that day someone pushed roses into her arms - yellow roses each time, until they reached Dallas. There, the roses were red.' (November 22, 1963) And so begins Jackie, a spellbinding, deeply researched novel which goes back in time to imagine Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is telling us the first-person story of her life. At the center of this book is the love story of Jackie and Jack,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "In London in 1907, a decade before the revolution, young Stalin has yet to achieve the power, nor acted on the ruthlessness, that will define his legacy. Instead Koba, as he is known, arrives in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party where he--and many of his fellow Bolsheviks--are only allowed to remain as a nonvoting witness. But his inability to vote does not limit his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYStratton, Richard (Richard H.)
Summary: In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022