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Phillips, Caryl

Summary: Caryl Phillips's A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PHI

May, Antoinette.

Summary: Claudia's dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. She often "sees" things, real things, before they happen. But her gift can also be a curse in a time of deadly politics and social unrest. While destiny leads her to the temple of Isis, to Pompeii's Villa of Mysteries, the infamous snake pit of Pergamon, and into the arms of the Roman magistrate, Pontius Pilate, her heart always seems to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAY

May, Stephen

Summary: "In London in 1907, a decade before the revolution, young Stalin has yet to achieve the power, nor acted on the ruthlessness, that will define his legacy. Instead Koba, as he is known, arrives in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party where he--and many of his fellow Bolsheviks--are only allowed to remain as a nonvoting witness. But his inability to vote does not limit his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAY

Calvi, Mary

Summary: "Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted." --George Washington Unrequited love might have sparked a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution. Never before has this story about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal entries, Dear George, Dear Mary explores...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAL

Calvi, Mary

Summary: "A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt's first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary. Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee-many of them never before published-If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAL

Renault, Mary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1969

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REN

Sharratt, Mary

Summary: Disguising herself as a man to escape her loveless marriage and enjoy the exclusive freedoms of men, aspiring writer Aemilia Lanier falls in love and runs away with ragged poet William Shakespeare, with whom she secretly writes plays that bring him fame years later.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Sharratt, Mary

Summary: A novel based on the true story of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), who was offered by her parents as a tithe to the Church as a young child and who triumphed to become a powerful abbess, composer, prophet and polymath.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Sharratt, Mary

Summary: Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Carey, Edward

Summary: In 1761 a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Sington, Philip.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIN

Hensher, Philip.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HEN

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her sister Mary, widow of President Lincoln, has attempted suicide. If Mary's sisters can put past grievances aside, will their love be powerful enough to save her?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHI

Beauregard, Mark

Summary: "In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end. In despair, Melville takes his family for a vacation to his cousin's farm in the Berkshires, where he meets Nathaniel Hawthorne at a picnic--and his life turns upside down"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEA

Beauregard, Mark.

Summary: "A rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s New England, offering a new window on Herman Melville's emotionally charged relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it transformed his masterpiece, Moby-Dick In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end--his last...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA

Card, Orson Scott.

Summary: The first novel in a trilogy on the women of Genesis, focusing on the life of Sarah, a devoted wife, and follower of the God of Abraham, who is chosen to experience a miracle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp. And it is a matter of strangely personal...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUS

Twain, Mark

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ignatius Press 1989

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Twain 1989

Warren, Mark

Summary: Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, and so he moves to a place where an iron-rule is needed - Dodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock, a runaway prostitute, who, like Wyatt, is searching for a chance at a better life....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

Russell, Mary Doria

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Summary: "In July 1913, twenty-five-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 risk 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 husbands and sons deep...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

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Clark, Mary Higgins.

Summary: A fictionalized account of the relationship between George Washington, the first president of the United States, and his wife Martha.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Clark, Mary Higgins.

Summary: Presents a fictionalized account of the relationship between George Washington, the first president of the United States, and his wife Martha.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLA

Russell, 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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RUS

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: A sequel to Doc is based on the true events of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and Wyatt Earp's survival against a backdrop of volatile politics in 1881 America.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

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