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Book clubs (Discussion groups) Fiction Books and reading Fiction FICTION / Historical / General FICTION / Historical / World War II FICTION / Women Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 Fiction Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Fiction Mothers and daughters Young adult fictionRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RICLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LYOLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LYOHoffman, Alice
Summary: Ivy Jacob's ever-disappointed mother and stern father react badly to news of her teen pregnancy, prompting her to run away from her tiny Boston home for Western Massachusetts, where she's embraced by a group called The Community. There, she gives birth to her daughter, Mia, and marries the group's charismatic but controlling leader, Joel, when Mia is three months old. The Community's rules are...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOFSteel, Danielle
Summary: In Danielle Steel's epic new novel, the lives of four generations of women in one family span fortune and loss, motherhood, tragedy and victories. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the 1960s-history holds many surprises, and lives are changed forever. For richer or for poorer, in cramped apartments and grand mansions, the treasured...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2020Hoffman, Alice
Summary: One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction HoffmanIturbe, Antonio
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ITUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction ItuRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction RusMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: Controlled by a domineering mother and an over-opinionated family, Valency Stirling awakens on her twenty-ninth birthday resigned to dull existence. Her only escape is the Blue Castle of her imagination. But when an unexpected letter changes everything, Valency breaks the bonds of fear and finds purpose in a whole new life that turns the Blue Castle of her dreams into a reality.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MONRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DOEGable, Michelle
Summary: Physician Bess Codman has returned to her family's Nantucket compound, Cliff House, for the first time in four years. Her great grandparents built Cliff House almost a century before, but due to erosion, the once grand home will soon fall into the sea. Though she's purposefully avoided the island, Bess must now pack up the house and deal with her mother, a notorious town rabble rouser, who...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GABPressfield, Steven
Summary: Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, AD 55. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, agents of the Roman Empire receive information about a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic calling himself Paul the Apostle to insurrectionists in Corinth. What's in the letter could bring down an empire. The Romans hire a former legionary, a solitary man-at-arms named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREHand, Cynthia
Summary: Refusing a job with the Society for the Relocation of Wayward Spirits, Jane Eyre heads to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for Mr. Rochester.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANRivers, Francine
Summary: In 1875, Kathryn Walsh settles in frontier California. Moved by the oppression of local miners, she decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper, putting her in the spotlight of Calvada's most powerful men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIVMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: 1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MITMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: In 1799, the artificial island of Dejima lies in Nagasaki Harbor as Japan's outpost for the Dutch East Indies Company. There, Jacob de Zoet has come to make a fortune large enough to return to Holland and marry the woman he loves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MITLondon, Julia
Summary: Every dashing young man in London's ton is vying for Lady Caroline Hawke's hand, except one. Handsome, delectable rou©♭ Prince Leopold of Alucia can't quite remember who Caroline is and the insult is not to be tolerated. So Caroline does what any clever, resourceful lady of means would do to make sure a prince remembers her: sees that amusingly risqu©♭ morsels about Leo's reputation are printed...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction London 2020Forsyth, Kate
Summary: Set in Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies. May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction ForsythHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: Anton Addison-Rice is determined to help his neighbor Edith leave her abusive marriage. As Anton falls hopelessly and selflessly in love, Edith fears both her husband finding her and Anton getting hurt.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction HydWilliams, Beatriz.
Summary: In 1947, Janey Everett, researching the lost aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, locates a woman she thinks was once Mallory's flying partner. Soon the duel between the two women takes a heart-stopping turn.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Ficton Williams 2020Green, Amy Lynn
Summary: In 1942, an impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its doors open. As the women in the book club face personal challenges and band together in the face...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREChurch, Meagan
Summary: It's the 1960s in North Carolina, and Lorraine Delford has it all. Yet every time she looks through her father's telescope, she dreams of leaving it all behind to go to space. But when this darling girl-next-door gets pregnant, she's forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep women grounded. To hide their daughter's secret shame, the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHUHarmel, Kristin
Summary: Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change. When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life her young daughter, playmate to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023