Albert, Susan Wittig
Summary: It looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers - just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition. Another unlucky break: a serious foul-up in Darling's telephone system - and not a penny for repairs. And while liquor is legal again, moonshine isn't. Sheriff Buddy Norris needs a little luck when he goes into Briar Swamp to confront...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBMingarelli, Hubert
Summary: In Polish countryside, during the war, three German soldiers are ordered to track down Jews for execution. Having time to contemplate the mission, their differing sympathies begin to splinter the group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mingarelli 2016Willig, Lauren
Summary: "A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smiths Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILWillig, Lauren
Summary: Aspiring archaeologist Betsy Hayes finds herself in the heart of two often-overlooked wars in history: the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish-American War, finding love and friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILWillig, Lauren.
Summary: Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling exploits. Instead, she is sent to serve as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Royalist plot, and Laura's mission is to report anything suspicious. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILUrrea, Luis Alberto
Summary: 1943. Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York and heads to Europe with the Red Cross. She makes friends with Dorothy Dunford, and they become part of the Donut Dollies: providing camaraderie and a taste of home at the front lines before the troops head into battle. Seeing service from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, Irene develops friendships which help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URRAmiry, Suad
Summary: "Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story follows the lives of a 15 year old engineer, Subhi, and the 13 year old girl, Shams, he hopes one day to marry. It brings Jaffa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIZusak, Markus
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower), has been stationed in Portugal and is awaiting his new contact. He does not expect to be paired with a woman--especially not the legendary Pink Carnation. All of Portugal believes that the royal family departed for Brazil just before the French troops marched into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Willig 2015Brock, Amber
Summary: Enduring a life of lonely desperation in spite of her beauty, pedigree, and Park Avenue penthouse, Vera is drawn to a secretive French artist who is painting a mural in her coveted building, a relationship that reminds her about a talented forger from her past who nearly cost her everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrock, Amber.
Summary: Set in the glamorous 1920s, this is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world. Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus. Emil Hallan arrives at The Angelus to paint a mural above its glittering subterranean pool. The handsome French artist shrouds his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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Gregory, Susanna
Summary: After returning to London, Chaloner investigates the death of lawyer with ties to a trader known as "the Butcher of Smithfield."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGregory, Susanna
Summary: Another excellent historical adventure from Susanna Gregory, featuring 17th-century spy Thomas Chaloner London in the spring of 1665 is a city full of fear. There is plague in the streets of St. Giles, the Dutch fleet is preparing to invade, and a banking crisis threatens to leave Charles II's government with no means of paying for the nation's defense. Amid the tension, Thomas Chaloner is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: "It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys -- she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All-American Girls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction FinkbeinerFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: "Pearl Spence has been through more in her young life than most folks could handle. But through it all, her family has been by her side. They may not be perfect, but they love her and they all love each other, come what may. That's one thing Pearl no longer questions. But the end of her beautiful day signals the beginning of the end of her secure life. Now her family is fleeing their Oklahoma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 2017
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Summary: When Eva Ward moves to an old house on the Cornish coast, she discovers hidden pathways, mysterious voices, and ghosts of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2011
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Summary: In 1620 an orphaned fifteen-year-old servant girl joins Separatists seeking religious freedom and others aboard the Mayflower as they undertake a perilous journey to the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILGregory, Susanna
Summary: London, 1664. The infamous church-smasher Dick Culmer is killed among the tottering, ramshackle buildings of London Bridge and Chaloner's investigations into the death link Culmer to a group of puritan conspirators. Further west, in the opulence of Somerset House and in the Palace of White Hall, Chaloner gradually realizes that the ring-leaders of a rebellion are planning an explosive climax to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: "After Annie Jacobson's older brother is deployed to Vietnam during the war, tragedy at home brings their estranged father home without welcome. As tensions heighten, Annie and her family must find a way to move forward as they try to hold both hope and grief in the same hand" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINMichener, James A. (James Albert)
Summary: When Norman Clay, an American journalist, arrives in Mexico it is to cover the decisive duel between two celebrated matadors, and to learn more about his family's past. As he uncovers the story of his Mexican ancestors, the dramatic story of Mexico unfolds. (from back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1992
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICGregory, Susanna
Summary: In the sapping summer heat of 1665 there is little celebration in London of the naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft. The King, his retinue and anyone with sufficient means has fled the plague-ridden city, its half-deserted streets echoing to the sound of bells tolling the mounting number of deaths. Those who remain clutch doubtful potions to ward off the relentless disease and dart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGilbert, Julie
Summary: In 1919 Boston, an orphaned eighth-grade girl plans to head west to become a cowboy until the giant tank of molasses in her neighborhood explodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILCalkins, Susanna
Summary: "A 1920s Chicago speakeasy... Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father - and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. She's enchanted by the harsh, glamorous world she discovers: the sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, the rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALGilbert, Elizabeth
Summary: In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019