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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: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEChevalier, Tracy
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: Chronicles the lives of a middle-class family whose values are constantly at war with its passions and love affairs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALGoldberg, Leonard S.
Summary: "In the west end of London, an apparently crazed individual is on the loose, breaking into art galleries and private homes to slash valuable paintings of women. Despite Scotland Yard's best efforts, the criminal remains at large and continues on his destructive path. When Joanna and the Watsons are called in to solve the mystery, they soon discover that although the canvases have been slashed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLCross, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRORobinson, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCameron, Kenneth M.
Summary: When General Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from Mary Thomason saying she's in danger and needs his help, his search for the woman leads him into the heart of Bohemian London--where he will learn the shocking truth about Mary and discover first-hand what it's like to be the object of a lethal obsession. Sequel to The Frightened...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMRuncie, James
Summary: "It is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer. Attending to his paternal duties, Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in the woods with his daughter Anna and their aging Labrador Byron when they stumble upon a body. Beside the dead man lies a basket of wild flowers, all poisonous. And so it is that Sidney is thrust into another murder investigation, entering a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNJoinson, Suzanne.
Summary: In 1923, devout Eva English and her not-so-religious sister Lizzie embark on a journey to be missionaries in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOIHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now. David has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his sister Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her husband at the Front. Aunt Laura, eager for challenge, goes to France with an ambulance; while Beattie struggles to manage war work and household,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARForster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FORConnolly, J. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duckbacks 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ConnoCookson, Catherine.
Summary: The story of a woman whose fateful choices as a young woman exact a terrible toll not only on her life, but on the lives of those dearest to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOThomas, Rosie
Summary: "Nancy Wix, daughter of stage impresarios Eliza and Devil, is a born performer. But she is set apart, even from her unusual family, by the visions she has seen since she was a child. When a gifted medium reveals a way for Nancy to harness her troubling powers to keep the Wix's struggling theatre afloat, she grasps the opportunity with a desperate intensity. This is the age of spiritualism,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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Summary: A sequel to Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and Swanns' from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through the devastation of the Wall Street crash in 1929.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bradford 2015Gale, Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Waugh 1998Weldon, Fay.
Summary: A second installment in the trilogy by the award-winning author of the original Upstairs Downstairs follows the restoration of the Dilberne fortune and manor at the turn of the 20th century, when Lord Robert and Lady Isobel assist coronation plans for Edward VII, anticipate the birth of a grandchild and debate the future of an orphaned niece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELNolan, Megan
Summary: "It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"--ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOLDi Canzio, William
Summary: A reimagining and continuation of E. M. Forster's classic novel Maurice, told from the gamekeeper Alec Scudder's perspective. Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. Forster, who tried to write an epilogue about the future of his characters, was stymied by the radical change that the Great War brought to their world. With the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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Summary: "A captivating, absorbing, and suspenseful evocation of the spells of childhood In a timeless coming-of-age tale as charming and haunting as the movie Stand By Me, Andrew Lovett's Everlasting Lane tells the story of what happens when nine-year-old Peter's father dies and his mother moves them from the city to a house in the countryside, for what seem to Peter to be mysterious reasons. He's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVRobson, Jennifer
Summary: London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Robson 2019Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia.
Summary: It is 1916 and the Hunters, their friends and their servants are settling down to the business of war. As conscription reaches into every household, Britain turns out men and shells in industrial numbers from army camps and munitions factories up and down the land. Bobby, the second Hunter son, gains his wings and joins his brother in France. Ethel, the under housemaid, embarks on a quest and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2016