Gaynor, Hazel
Summary: "An historical novel about a young woman who finds employment as a chambermaid at London's grandest hotel after World War I and becomes torn between two men, two classes, and everything she knows and everything she dreams of"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: Ireland, 1912, Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in an unknown new place, her heart remains in Ireland with Séamus, the sweetheart she left behind. When disaster strikes, Maggie is one of the few passengers in steerage to survive. Waking up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co 2014
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Summary: "Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GAYGaynor, Hazel
Summary: "Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC GAY (PENINSULA BOOK CLUB KIT - 8 paperbacksOke, Janette
Summary: When Beth Thatcher returns to Coal Valley, she has much to be excited about. She anticipates Jarrick's proposal of marriage and perhaps a spring wedding. The mine is expanding, and there are more schoolchildren than ever. But the town's rapid growth brings many challenges. A second teacher is assigned, and Beth finds herself going head-to-head with a very different philosophy of education--one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oke 2016Taylor, Andrew
Summary: Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. Even the impregnable cathedral of St. Paul's is engulfed in flames and reduced to ruins. Among the crowds watching its destruction is Richard Marwood, son of a disgraced printer, and reluctant government informer. In the aftermath of the fire, a semi-mummified body is discovered in the ashes of St....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: December 1965. 'Tis the season once again in the cozy Irish village of Ballybucklebo, which means that Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, his young colleague Barry Laverty, and their assorted friends, neighbors, and patients are enjoying all their favorite holiday traditions: caroling, trimming the tree, finding the perfect gifts for their near and dear ones, and anticipating a proper Yuletide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "December 1965. Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, his colleague Barry Laverty, and their friends, neighbors, and patients are enjoying their favorite holiday traditions. There's even the promise of snow in the air, raising the prospect of a white Christmas. The season brings its fair share of challenges as well, including a black-sheep brother hoping to reconcile with his estranged family, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2021
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Summary: The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC TYLBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "As the Inghams and the Swanns journey from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through to the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929, the Cavendon women band together and bring their family into a new decade and a new way of life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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Summary: James Lionel Falconer has become the right-hand man of the head of London's most prestigious shipping company. Can James continue to be the master of his own fate, even after entering the lion's den?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: "Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother's brother in Leeds. There, he learns his trade as a navvy, amid the grand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Bradford 2022Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Summary: Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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Summary: Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. At eighteen she is her father's closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2017Steel, Danielle.
Summary: This centuries-spanning novel interweaves the lives of two women: a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is a story of courage in the face of the unknown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: Follows the Inghams' and the Swanns' journey from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through to the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929. It all begins on a summer weekend in July of 1926 when, for the first time in years, the earl has planned a family weekend. As the family members come together, secrets, problems, joys, and sorrows are revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2015
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Summary: "Working at his father's market stall in Victorian England, James Lionel Falconer determines to become a merchant prince. Hardworking and trustworthy, he catches the eye of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious London shipping company. When threats against his reputation--and his life--emerge, James must prove that he truly is the master of his fate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: A charismatic and ambitious businessman in Victorian England faces the tragic ruin of everything he has worked to achieve before a royal summons gives him a chance to prove his talents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018
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Summary: Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. Even as a boy working in his father's market stall in Camden, he was determined to become a merchant prince. Through hard work and a single-minded determination, James rises quickly through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Bradford 2018Taylor, Mary Ellen
Summary: "As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees - despite strained family relationships. Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She's fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts Zara to work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: For years things have run smoothly at Cavendon Hall, with very few quarrels, dramas, or upsets among the Inghams and the Swanns. But since the end of World War II, things have changed. The Secrets of Cavendon picks up in the summer of 1949, with the new generation of the estate at the forefront of the scandal and intrigue. With romance, betrayal, heartbreak, and possible murder threatening to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacMillan Audio 2017