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O'Farrell, Maggie

Summary: Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit FIC O'FA

Albert, Susan Wittig

Summary: "In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's domineering,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Birnbaum, Daniel

Summary: "In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons. Living as a refugee in Stockholm, Immanuel...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIR

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