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Americans France Fiction Intelligence officers United States Fiction Large type books Mississippi Fiction Older women Fiction Reminiscing in old age Fiction Renoir, Auguste 1841-1919 Fiction Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944 Fiction United States. Office of Strategic Services Fiction World War, 1939-1945 FictionWilder, Gene
Summary: When Paul Peachy, an amateur actor, is captured by the Germans during World War I, he impersonates a famous enemy spy whom he had briefly guarded and is offered fine wines and dinners, a driver and a tailor, and Annie, a beautiful courtesan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILGregory, Philippa.
Summary: Descended from a river goddess, Jacquetta has always had the gift of second sight. Wed to the Duke of Bedford, she is introduced to the world of learning and alchemy. When his death leaves her a wealthy young widow, Jacquetta marries the Duke's squire, Richard Woodville. They return to England and have a daughter, Elizabeth, for whom Jacquetta senses an extraordinary future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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Summary: Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by Northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When her native state seceded in April 1861, Van Lew's convictions compelled her to defy the new Confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Lincoln White House, her courage would never waver, even as her wartime actions threatened not only her reputation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIVreeland, Susan.
Summary: Renoir is inspired to paint "Luncheon of the boating party" when his other work is criticized by Emile Zola, and while doing so is drawn into lives of the thirteen people featured in it as they enjoy a Parisian summer during the late 1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VREArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: A second installment in a planned five-part series finds Harry despairing of a marriage to Emma and joining the Merchant Navy before assuming the identity of a fallen American soldier whose past proves even more turbulent than Harry's own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Archer 2012Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Recruited by Wild Bill Donovan to set up an airline that will be an OSS front in 1943 Argentina, Marine pilot Cletus Frade monitors two German operations, including a concentration-camp smuggling ring and a Nazi protection group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIDunmore, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Summary: The first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations and across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920. A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. But an unexpected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Archer 2011Azzopardi, Trezza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AZZDean, Debra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEAOwens, Sharon
Summary: When their quaint Victorian pub is threatened by plans for a shopping mall, Jack and Lily Beaumont, their employees, and their loyal patrons work to either save the pub or to make the most of the time that remains before it is torn down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OWEAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: Set during the chaotic years of World War II, tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, his Irish driver/aide, and the impact of that relationship on Mamie Eisenhower and her life in Washington during the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBArvin, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ARVJordan, Hillary
Summary: In 1946, city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm when two young men return from the war to work the land, Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers on the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JORGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Facing daunting challenges in the form of political threats against the OSS and the early stirrings of the Cold War, Cletus Frade and his colleague conduct a secret operation to counter the growing ambitions of Joseph Stalin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011