Vuillard, ©ric
Summary: "February 20, 1933: on an unremarkable day during a harsh Berlin winter, a meeting of twenty-four German captains of industry and senior Nazi dignitaries is being held in secret in the plush lounges of the Reichstag. They are there to "stump up" funding for the accession to power of the National Socialist Party and its fearsome Chancellor. This inaugural scene sets the tone of consent which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VUIMones, Nicole.
Summary: ""Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, and from the classical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONAnwar, Arif
Summary: "Seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history. Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we learn Shahryar's history, in a village on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing to face a storm of historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANWKyles, Cedric
Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CEDShafak, Elif
Summary: In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Isanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter, Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHALarson, 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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1 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 LARDunmore, Evie
Summary: "Going toe-to-toe with a brooding Scotsman is rather bold for a respectable suffragist, but when he happens to be one's unexpected husband, what else is an unwilling bride to do? London banking heiress Hattie Greenfield wanted just three things in life: 1. Acclaim as an artist 2. A noble cause 3. Marriage to a young lord who puts the gentle in gentleman. Why then does this Oxford scholar find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DUNWesterson, Jeri
Summary: "A quest to find the ancient sword Excalibur quickly turns into a hunt for a determined killer for Crispin Guest. London, 1396. A trip to the swordsmith shop for Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, and his apprentice Jack Tucker takes an unexpected turn when Crispin crosses paths with Carantok Teague, a Cornish treasure hunter. Carantok has a map he is convinced will lead him to the sword of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESShafak, Elif
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire In her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASimons, Paullina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSimons, Paullina
Summary: Tatiana is eighteen, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. Oceans away in the Soviet Union, Alexander has escaped execution-- and is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin's death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMDunmore, Evie
Summary: England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNEisdorfer, 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 EISAlston, 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 ALSBennett, Brit
Summary: "The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENWesterson, Jeri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESDezenhall, Eric.
Summary: Keeping friends close and enemies closer turned out well for the U.S. Navy during FDR's reign. This novel, based on fact, explains the significant role Lansky, Lucky Luciano, and other mobsters played in ridding New York harbor of spies and preparing the soil for the invasion of Sicily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEZFlint, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIFlint, Eric.
Summary: A mysterious accident in time causes twenty-first-century American democracy to collide head-on with the Thirty Years War in seventeenth-century Germany as Mike Stearn and a group of armed miners take on a gang of strangely attired invaders who are threatening peaceful Grantville, West Virginia. Original. Freedom and Justice-American Style 1632. And in northern Germany things couldn't get much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: "This New York Times bestselling mystery series continues as American-born codebreaker extraordinaire, Maggie Hope, returns to England to continue her intelligence work during World War II. England, 1942. Great Britain and the U.S. have joined forces to fight the Nazis. In London, Maggie Hope takes on the biggest challenge of her career: finding a killer who models himself on Jack the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACKraft, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRASimons, Jake Wallis
Summary: The Klein family is slowly but surely losing everything they hold dear - or ever took for granted - as Hitler's anti-Jewish laws take hold in 1930s Berlin. In desperation, fifteen-year-old Rosa is put on a Kindertransport train out of Germany to begin a new life in England. In a foreign country, barely able to make herself understood, she struggles to find a way to rescue her parents. Overtaken...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMNeubauer, Erica Ruth
Summary: "Well-heeled travelers from around the world flock to the Mena House Hotel--an exotic gem in the heart of Cairo where cocktails flow, adventure dispels the aftershocks of World War I, and deadly dangers wait in the shadows . . . Egypt, 1926. Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won't be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie's best efforts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NEUHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: "Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, this year nothing is the same: Blair, the eldest sister, is stranded in Boston, pregnant with twins and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019