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Summary: While in Lyme Regis to visit his fiancee, Ernestina Freeman, Charles Smithson, a 32-year-old paleontologist, becomes fascinated by the mysterious Sarah Woodruff. A fallen woman said to have been jilted by a French officer, Sarah is a pariah to the well-bred society that Charles and Ernestina are a part of. While searching for fossils in a wooded coastal area, Charles encounters Sarah alone, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and co. 1969
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWCullen, Lynn
Summary: "In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, calling Isabel "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULJames, Eloisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMCleave, Chris.
Summary: Shocking her blueblood political family by volunteering for the war effort in 1939 London, socialite Mary teaches evacuated and marginalized children and bonds with her employer, Tom, before their romance is challenged by a painful love triangle and the grueling realities of the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CleaveScottoline, Lisa
Summary: "Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as best friends, despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoing a novelist, Marco a handsome cyclist with a secret, and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy. Soon their friendship ripens to romance, and Marco and Sandro vie to win Elisabetta. Meanwhile war threatens the world, and Mussolini leads Italy down a dark path. Harsh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SCODonoghue, Emma
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONAdams, Sheila Kay.
Summary: Larkin Stanton, orphaned at birth in 1845, is raised by his cousin, Arty Norton. Larkin and Arty's younger brother Hackley grow up surrounded by music and are as close as brothers. Larkin sings before he can talk, and Hackley's fiddle makes all feet want to dance. As they become men, both lose their hearts to pretty, redheaded Mary. But through this complex love and the wrenching destruction of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAGoodwin, Daisy.
Summary: "Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOGoodwin, Daisy.
Summary: "Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Goodwin 2015Goodwin, Daisy.
Summary: In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic and intelligent, Sisi has everything -- except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England to hunt. She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOORoberts, Bethan
Summary: "Soon to be a motion picture starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin, an exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love. It is in 1950's Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim, gently guiding her through the water in the shadow of the city's famous pier and Marion is smitten-determined her love alone will be enough for them both. A few years later near the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBHiggs, Liz Curtis.
Summary: Rose and Leana McBride both love the same man, but each must deal with her own choice when the Church Elders rule on what they see as an unusual and illegal situation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2004
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Summary: Struggling to preserve her family's theater and married to a man desperate for children, would-be artist Desdemona Hart of 1935 Massachusetts is drawn to creative newcomer Jacob Solomon, who is wrongly implicated by anti-Semitic townspeople after a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHAMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording reimagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula, in a meticulously researched accountthat reveals additional information that may prove Dula's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McCrumb 2011Hay, Ashley
Summary: ""An absorbing and uplifting read." -M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans "This is a book in which grief and love are so entwined they make a new and wonderful kind of sense." -Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest Amidst the strange, silent aftermath of World War II, a widow, a poet, and a doctor search for lasting peace and fresh beginnings in this internationally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016