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Germany History 1918-1933 Fiction Great Britain Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Fiction Great Britain Social life and customs 1918-1945 Fiction Murder Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Fiction Twentieth century Fiction United States History 1913-1921 Fiction World War, 1914-1918 FictionFollett, Ken.
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families-- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Summary: Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, Welsh--enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WHEFarrant, Natasha
Summary: In the aftermath of World War I, two orphaned friends set off in a narrowboat from England as each hopes to find a missing part of themselves in France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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Summary: "An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: "Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. 'A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2013
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Summary: "With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat... England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Stella Douglas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: James Falconer, a tycoon and a self-made man, seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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Summary: "Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gramont 2022Gramont, Nina de
Summary: London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O'Dea became Archie Christie's mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The question is, why? Why destroy another woman's marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O'Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken.
Summary: This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Follett 2012Follett, Ken.
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FollettFollett, Ken.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLHuang, Christopher
Summary: "The year is 1924. The cobblestoned streets of St. James ring with jazz as Britain races forward into an age of peace and prosperity. London's back alleys, however, are filled with broken soldiers and still enshadowed by the lingering horrors of the Great War. Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders himself, Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Huang 2018Winspear, Jacqueline
Summary: "In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publisher 2022
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Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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Summary: After her mother's murder, Kitty Challoner investigates to find out the truth about her death, uncovering dangerous family secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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Summary: In post-World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: In 1917, when an arrogant and incompetent British commander turns up dead, a reluctant Joseph Reavley searches for the truth about the crime and about the twelve men accused of the murder, journeying behind enemy lines to find the individual responsible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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Summary: In June of 1914, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns that his father was carrying a vitally important secret document when he died, and that his best student has been murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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Summary: A shy girl with no family, Maria has landed in the sewing room of the royal household. Soon she catches the eye of the Prince of Wales. But her life takes a darker turn, and soon all she has left is a fantastical story about her time in the palace. Decades later, Caroline discovers a beautiful quilt in her mother's attic with a mysterious message embroidered into its lining. She embarks on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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Summary: Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary psychologist and investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community involving mysterious fires, petty crimes, and the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2008