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Jaye, Lola

Summary: Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn't bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAY

Jaye, Lola

Summary: This novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity, and belonging, features two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC JAY

Weldon, Fay

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL

Hay, Alex

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAY

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAY

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAY

Day, Alyssa.

Summary: Christophe, powerful Warrior of Poseidon, teams up with Fiona Campbell, the notorious jewel thief known as the Scarlet Ninja, to break into the Tower of London and steal the Siren--one of the missing jewels from Poseidon's trident.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Sensation 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAY

Day, Elizabeth

Summary: Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits. Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen from Petticoat Lane to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Yet self-doubt...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Circus 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAY

May, Peter

Summary: Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction May 2016

Lessing, Doris May

Summary: Ben, now grown and in the care of good-hearted prostitute Rita and her boyfriend, unknowingly helps them transport drugs to Paris.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LES

Lessing, Doris May

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LES

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