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Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction Florence (Italy) Social conditions Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Mogul Empire Kings and rulers Fiction Mogul Empire Social conditions Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Sisters Fiction Women Italy Florence Fiction Women Mogul Empire Fiction World War, 1939-1945 FictionRobuck, Erika.
Summary: A young woman struggling to support her family in depression era Key West takes a job with the family of writer Ernest Hemingway, learning new things about life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Robuck 2012Robuck, 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: A non-traditional 19th century artist, Sophia, falls in love with a talented writer, Nathaniel, and the pair begin a life together that spans continents, child-rearing and competing creative impulses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBRobuck, Erika
Summary: "1926, Washington, D. C. In the Prohibition Rum Wars, the Coast Guard is losing. Eleven million gallons of illegal liquor a year have created a booming smuggling economy, with criminals wreaking havoc on American cities, and everyday citizens thumbing their noses at Uncle Sam. But the Coast Guard has a new, secret weapon-one of the husband-and-wife pair who invented cryptanalysis and trained...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2024
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Summary: Traces the life of the mentor gas attendant of "Way of the Peaceful Warrior," discussing his origins as an orphan with both Jewish and Cossack ties, his journey from a military academy to America, and his discovery of how to live a peaceful life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILTallman, Shirley.
Summary: Flaunting the conventions of nineteenth-century society and feminine behavior, headstrong attorney Sarah Woolson gets more than she had bargained for when a reporter is found murdered during a seance at San Francisco's famed Cliff House.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALTallman, Shirley.
Summary: Returning from an evening spent listening to a young Oscar Wilde in 1882 San Francisco, crusading young lawyer Sarah Woolson and her brother, Samuel, are targeted in the fog by a gunman who strikes Samuel, prompting Sarah's investigation into the shooter's identity and intended victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALRushdie, Salman.
Summary: A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara Köz, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION RushdieCasey, Eliza
Summary: "When a dinner party turns deadly, the feisty Lady Cecilia Bates and intuitive cat Jack are on the case, in this first entry to an exciting new historical-mystery series. England 1912. Danby Hall is the only home Lady Cecilia Bates has ever known. Despite the rigid rules of etiquette and her mother the Countess of Avebury's fervent desire to see her married off, Lady Cecilia can't imagine life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CASMacLean, Julianne
Summary: Gwen Hollingsworth is the curator at a museum in Nova Scotia dedicated to the Hollywood legend Scarlett Fontaine's life. Gwen is also sole descendant and heir to Scarlett's fortune. Gwen is dealing with a messy marital separation and is struggling to move forward. So when Peter Miller, a biographer and photojournalist, come to the museum with shocking claims about Scarlett, which include a life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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Summary: Long before she will achieve fame as the author of "Little Women," Louisa May Alcott is writing stories of a more dark and mysterious nature. But nothing prepares her for the role of amateur detective she assumes when the body of her dear friend, wealthy newlywed Dorothy Wortham, is found floating in Boston's harbor. It's well known that Dorothy's family didn't approve of her husband, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACGalchen, Rivka
Summary: "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time-the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALMacLean, Julianne
Summary: After a crushing betrayal by the man she loves, Gillian Gibbons flees to her family home for a much-needed escape, but when she finds an old photograph of her grandmother in the arms of a Nazi officer, Gillian's life gets even more complicated. Rattled by the discovery, Gillian attempts to unravel the truth behind the photos, setting her off on an epic journey through the past... 1939. England...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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Summary: "In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUSRushdie, Salman.
Summary: Rushdie pens the story of a European traveler and the extraordinary tale he shares with 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. The traveler claims to be the son of a Mughal princess forgotten by time. If his tale is true, what happened to the princess?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSScott, Anika
Summary: "For readers of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris, an immersive, heart-pounding debut about a German heiress on the run from British authorities, who discovers dark secrets about her family's past in post-World War II Germany"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Scott 2020Milan, Courtney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILParmar, Priya
Summary: "For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a captivating novel that offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, and the controversial and popular circle of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARMacLean, Sarah
Summary: No stranger to scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot embraces her bad reputation and continues luring men from Mayfair ballrooms for late night escapades but finds herself pining for what she can't seem to have--her brother's best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACAlston, Bria
Summary: Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ALSEisdorfer, Erica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISLarson, Erik
Summary: A group of researchers sets sail for the Isle of Dorn in the North Atlantic in 1905 to explore the cause of several mysterious disappearances, most notably a family of four who vanished without a trace after a week-long holiday on the island. Led by Professor James, a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, they begin to explore the island's sole cottage and surrounding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC LARRiva, Maria
Summary: Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian village. When an opportunity presents itself for her to emigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind for the gleaming promises await her and her young husband in Mr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVScott, Anika
Summary: "Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022