Kelly, Julia

Summary: "Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

Murata, Kiyoko

Summary: "In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MUR

Nielsen, Jennifer A.

Summary: From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistic Day in 1918, the story follows the fate of five young people on both sides of the conflict-- each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC NIE