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American Revolution (1775-1783) Gable, Clark 1901-1960 Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction Lombard, Carole 1908-1942 Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Motion picture actors and actresses Fiction Scottish Americans Fiction Time travel Fiction United States United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 FictionPlaidy, Jean
Summary: Ten years after Charles I was deposed and executed, his son, Charles II, regains the throne after many years in exile. Charles is determined not only to restore the monarchy but also to revive a society that has suffered under many years of Puritan rule, when everything from theater to Christmas festivals was illegal. As king, Charles II throws himself into the gaiety of court life, becoming a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAMorgan, Jude
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORDonoghue, Emma
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONDunlap, Susanne Emily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNScott, Walter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOFitzgerald, Penelope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITCambron, Kristy
Summary: When Laine Forrester travels to France to attend her longtime friend's vineyard wedding, she expects to find a bride on the brink of a fairy-tale life. But after a series of unforeseen setbacks--a devastating diagnosis, a castle restoration put on hold, and the emergence of deep-seated family dynamics that threaten to derail the new couple's fledgling marriage--it seems the storybook life Laine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cambron 2019Wood, Naomi.
Summary: Based upon actual love letters and telegrams, describes fictionalized accounts of the lives and thoughts of each of Ernest Hemingway's four wives, describing what it was like to be loved by the adventurous novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Putney, Mary Jo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUTStuckart, Diane A. S.
Summary: After the deaths of two female servants, Leonardo da Vinci asks his apprentice, Dino, to go undercover disguised as a woman in the service of the Duke's ward. The task should prove easy since "Dino" is in reality Delfina, a young woman masquerading as a boy to serve as Leonardo's apprentice. But complications in the case soon have the young apprentice torn between her loyalty to Leonardo and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUTillyard, S. K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TILLiss, David
Summary: Lucy Derrick, a young Regency woman of good breeding and poor finances, is warned by a beautiful stricken man not to marry Mr. Olson, the local mill owner. Soon it becomes clear that there is more at stake than her own happiness--and that she is caught between two forces, one ancient and one modern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISHadlow, Janice
Summary: "What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HADSlaughter, Carolyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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Summary: In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OSTAlcott, Kate.
Summary: Although Julie Crawford has dreams of becoming a screenwriter, the only job she's able to find is one in the studio publicity office of the notoriously demanding producer David O. Selznick--who is busy burning through directors, writers and money as he begins filming "Gone with the Wind."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCAlcott, Kate.
Summary: Taking a job at the studio where David O. Selznick is filming "Gone with the Wind," Julie Crawford becomes an assistant to Carole Lombard, a rising actress from Julie's hometown who embarks on a scandalous affair with Clark Gable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALCCoble, Colleen
Summary: "Hannah Thomas left the South and all that was familiar to marry her beloved John. But the fact that she's never been quite accepted by his mother and sister and that she doesn't quite fit the strict Massachusetts Puritan community only becomes more difficult when John is killed in one of the first battles in the war for freedom. Hannah is allowed to continue to serve as lightkeeper for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COBThorland, Donna
Summary: Rebel Kate Gray cannot resist the advances of British Major Peter Tremayne, but after a member of her own family steals his military dispatches, Peter, having narrowly escaped hanging, vows to get revenge on Kate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOGabaldon, Diana
Summary: "1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB PT 1 OF 2Warlick, Ashley.
Summary: "An irresistible novel about food, desire, and the real-life love triangle between M.F.K Fisher, her husband, and the man she left him for--the true love of her life Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances is on the cusp of becoming M.F.K. Fisher--the writer whose artful personal essays about food created a genre. She is hungry, and not just for food: she wants Tim, her husband Al's charming friend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARTerciero, Rey
Summary: "Cade Munoz has has always loved to escape into the world of a good horror movie. After all, horror movies are scary, but to Cade--a closeted queer teen growing up in rural Texas--real life can be way scarier. When Cade is sent to spend the summer working as a ranch hand to help earn extra money for his family, he is horrified. Cade hates everything about the ranch, from the early mornings to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 TERThorland, Donna.
Summary: "British Occupied Manhattan, 1777. With her witty comedies, American actress Jennifer Leighton has been packing the John Street Theater, but she longs to escape the provincial circuit for the glamour of the London stage. When the playwright General John Burgoyne visits the city, fresh from a recent success on the Continent, she seizes the opportunity to court his patronage. But her plan is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library, Published by the Penguin Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOAlcott, Kate
Summary: "When Julie Crawford leaves Fort Wayne, Indiana for Hollywood, she never imagines she'll cross paths with Carole Lombard, the dazzling actress from Julie's provincial Midwestern hometown. The only job Julie's able to find is one in the studio publicity office of the notoriously demanding producer David O. Selznick, who is busy burning through directors, writers and money as he begins filming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015