Wingate, Lisa
Summary: "Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.George, Margaret
Summary: With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side, Nero Augustus commands the Roman empire, ushering in an unprecedented era of artistic and cultural splendor. Although he has yet to produce an heir, his power is unquestioned. But in the tenth year of his reign, a terrifying prophecy comes to pass and a fire engulfs Rome, reducing entire swaths of the city to rubble. Rumors of Nero's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GEORivers, Francine
Summary: Atretes, German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness ... but his life is changed forever when he learns his son is alive. Atretes vows to find his son and return to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizpah, the young widow who adopted his abandoned baby. But Atretes is undaunted. One woman should be no trouble at all. It doesn't take him long to find...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RivPeterson, Tracie
Summary: "In 1891, when Madysen Powell's supposedly dead father shows up, her gift for forgiveness is tested and she's left searching for answers. Daniel Beaufort arrives in Nome, longing to start fresh after the gold rush leaves him with only empty pockets, and finds employment at the Powell dairy. Will deceptions from the past tear apart their hopes for a better future?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETRose, M. J.
Summary: "New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism. Shortly after the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROSGeorge, Margaret
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Margaret George has brought history to vivid life with her chronicles of queens and kings. Now, she turns her gaze to an Emperor ... Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar's imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next person who seeks to control it. In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman--or child....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOBurke, James Lee
Summary: The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana to solve the mystery.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Burke 2019Jenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENBurke, James Lee
Summary: Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Burke 2019Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BURAbdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Summary: Rising War Office star Mycroft Holmes persuades his brother, Sherlock, to volunteer at a friend's orphanage, where the suspicious death of a street urchin and a mysterious Chinese woman lead the brothers into the London opium trade's dark underside.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Abdul-Jabbar 2018Luesse, Valerie Fraser
Summary: Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in tiny Bernadette, Louisiana deep in bayou country to escape the familiarity of her Alabama home. Though suspicious of outsiders, most of the people come to appreciate the young schoolteacher as a boon to the town. She's soon teaching just about everyone-- and comes up against opposition from both the school board and a politician with ulterior motives. When...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUEWingate, Lisa
Summary: A dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual 'Lost Friends' advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINHambly, Barbara
Summary: "When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal, Benjamin turns him down immediately. As a free man of colour in New Orleans in the sweltering July of 1839, he knows this is not something he should get mixed up in. But when clues to the dead man's identity link...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers, Ltd. 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2017Rundell, B. N.
Summary: "Two friends committed to one another and their destiny of exploring the wilderness known as French Louisiana. A land that would soon become the Louisiana Purchase and a part of the growing nation of the United Colonies. But another man, wealthy, influential and vindictive is determined to see Gabriel Stonecroft pay the ultimate price for the death of his son, a ne'er do well troublemaker who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNDavis, Lindsey
Summary: "Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer. She only has two hard and fast rules: avoid political cases and family cases--because nothing good comes of either of them. Unfortunately, since Albia isn't good at avoiding either, it's really more of a guideline. So when her Aunt Junia demands Albia track down a couple of deadbeats who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVAttenberg, Jami
Summary: "Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ATTSteel, Danielle
Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEDavis, Lindsey
Summary: "In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia, and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it's time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands -- in Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery, A Comedy of Terrors. Flavia Albia, daughter and successor of private informer Marcus Didius Falco is twiddling her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavis, Lindsey
Summary: "In first century Rome, Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father's former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it's small cases cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till but this isn't a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius Faustus, has recently moved in and decided that they should get married in a big, showy ceremony as part of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVGrant, Libbie
Summary: In 1827, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger who claims he can speak directly to God. In a few short years, Joseph Smith will found his own religion, gain tens of thousands of zealous followers and fracture Emma's life and faith.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRASmith, Katy Simpson
Summary: "Spanning two thousand years, The Everlasting follows four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. Outsiders to a city layered and dense with history, this quartet separated by time grapple with the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "A hot meal, a hard drink, and maybe a friendly hand of poker -- that's all Mac Mackenzie wants when he drifts into the small town of Harcourt City, Montana. What he gets is a fistful of trouble. When he defends a saloon girl from the unwanted advances of some local toughs, he earns the wrath of the town's powerful namesake, Oscar Harcourt. Harcourt rules this place with an iron fist -- and a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: WES FIC JOHDunant, Sarah.
Summary: Renowned for her bright and disciplined way with Renaissance Italy, New York Times best-selling novelist Dunant again visits the Borgias, to whom she recently paid court in Blood and Beauty. As Cesare ruthlessly seeks to unite all of Italy's city-states under Borgia control, Florence counters by sending one Niccolo Machiavelli to Rome as envoy and Lucrezia learns the family business of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DUDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Dunant 2017Scottoline, 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: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023