Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Keneally, Thomas

Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Adimi, Kaouther

Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADI

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC GRE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

O'Connor, Joseph

Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCO

Escobar, Mario

Summary: "International bestselling author Mario Escobar captures the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of kindness in this moving novel based on the true story of a brave Polish teacher who cared for hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse, an imprint of Harper Collins Focus LLC 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Escobar

Penman, Sharon Kay

Summary: The Christian ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem following the First Crusade, Baudouin IV, struggles to hold his throne despite political intrigue, personal health risks, and the growing threat of Saladin and his army.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEN

Wilson, Kip

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Tells the story of Gerda Taro, a headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the first woman photojournalist killed in combat"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Vreeland, Susan.

Summary: Louis Comfort Tiffany staffs his studio with female artisans--a decision that protects him from strikes by the all-male union--but refuses to employ women who are married. Lucky for him, Clara Driscoll's romantic misfortunes insure that she can continue to craft the jewel-toned glass windows and lamps that catch both her eye and her imagination.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VRE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VRE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VRE

chat loading...
Back to Top