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Summary: Midsummers Eve, 1670. A wealthy man waits outside a poor London warehouse to meet with Alinor, the woman he deserted twenty-one years before. He has everything to offer: wealth, land, status, and he believes she has the only thing he cannot buy: his son and heir. The warehouse is failing, clinging on to poor business in Restoration London. But will Alinor and her family sell out to Sir James?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREGregory, Philippa
Summary: When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined with Margaret's younger sister Mary to a sisterhood unique in the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREGregory, Philippa.
Summary: Descended from the river goddess Melusina, Jacquetta is blessed with second sight. As a young girl, she meets her uncle's captive, Joan of Arc, and realizes that they share the same abilities right before Joan's horrific death. Eventually, she is married off to the Duke of Bedford, and is introduced to alchemy. When the Duke dies, the talented window finds love in the arms of her friend, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREGregory, Philippa
Summary: The latest novel from number one New York Times best selling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Gregory 2017Gregory, Philippa
Summary: Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GreGregory, Philippa.
Summary: Gregory weaves the second installment of the Cousins' War trilogy that follows Lady Margaret Beaufort as she desperately tries to ensure her son Henry VII becomes the rightful heir to the throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREGregory, Philippa.
Summary: Passionately in love with Richard III in spite of her arranged marriage to pretender to the throne Henry Tudor, Princess Elizabeth of York is forced to marry the man who murdered her lover and create a royal family under the controlling gaze of his mother, Margaret Beaufort.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREAlcott, Kate.
Summary: Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic's doomed voyage. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALCAlcott, Kate
Summary: Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALCAlcott, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015