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Gilded hour 1 Gilded hour 2 Girls survive Jane Prescott 4 Ray Carney 2 Sunrise at Normandy 3Whitehead, Colson
Summary: "As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone"... Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHIWhitehead, Colson
Summary: Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked. To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his fac̜ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Whitehead 2021Whitehead, Colson
Summary: It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence, Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC WHIBoyadjian, Maral
Summary: It is 1913 and late summer in the Ottoman Empire. The sun rises, full and golden, atop a lush, centuries-old village tucked into the highlands where the blood-red poppies bloom. Outside the village leader's home, the sound of voices carries past the grapevines to the lane where Anno, his youngest daughter, slips out unseen. She heads to a secret meeting place. She forgets that enemies surround...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salor Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYFredericks, Mariah
Summary: "In Mariah Fredericks's Death of a Showman, the fourth in this absorbing series set in Gilded Age New York, lady's maid Jane Prescott is thrust into the world of show business, where a killer is stalking Broadway. It's the summer of 1914 and Jane Prescott-lady's maid to Louise Tyler, daughter of a wealthy New York society family-has just arrived home from Independence Day celebrations to find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREBird, Sarah
Summary: "Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's novel is about one woman--and a nation--struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BIRPenner, Sarah
Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "It's 1977, and Faun Novak is in love with rock 'n' roll. After her mother's death, Faun, a naïve college dropout, grabs her Polaroid and hops a Greyhound to Los Angeles. In the City of Angels, she reconnects with her charismatic childhood friend Josie, now an up-and-coming model and muse. To make their reunion even sweeter, Josie is now dating Cal Holiday, the frontman of the superstar rock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Daisy Wilder enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the Women's Air Raid Defense (WARD) guides pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. Not everyone thinks the women are up to the job, and the new recruits meet resistance and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ACKGruen, Sara
Summary: While her husband, Ellis, and his friend try to find the Loch Ness monster in an attempt to get back into his father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRUGruen, Sara.
Summary: A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUDunant, Sarah.
Summary: Renowned for her bright and disciplined way with Renaissance Italy, New York Times best-selling novelist Dunant again visits the Borgias, to whom she recently paid court in Blood and Beauty. As Cesare ruthlessly seeks to unite all of Italy's city-states under Borgia control, Florence counters by sending one Niccolo Machiavelli to Rome as envoy and Lucrezia learns the family business of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Dunant 2017Sundin, Sarah
Summary: "1943. Private Clay Paxton trains hard with the U.S. Army Rangers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, determined to do his best in the upcoming Allied invasion of France. With his future stolen by his brothers' betrayal, Clay has only one thing to live for-- fulfilling the recurring dream of his death. Leah Jones works as a librarian at Camp Forrest, longing to rise above her orphanage upbringing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNWinman, Sarah
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Tin Man comes a captivating, lively new novel of people brought together across four decades of love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINDonati, Sara
Summary: The year is 1883, and in New York City, it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie--both graduates of the Woman's Medical School--treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DONAckerman, Sara
Summary: "Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested. Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing their lives together one year after the disappearance of her husband. As rumors swirl and questions about his loyalties surface, Violet believes Ella knows something....
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P ACKMcCoy, Sarah
Summary: "From bestselling author Sarah McCoy, a sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcee and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world's most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from the press..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCSundin, Sarah
Summary: As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. She struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books. Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Sundin 2022Alexander, Sara
Summary: Housekeeper Santina becomes deeply enmeshed within the family she works for while she navigates her feelings for her employer and hides secrets that could shatter the home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEDonati, Sara
Summary: "From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York; Dr. Sophie Savard, daughter of free people of color returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr. Anna Savard, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONGruen, Sara.
Summary: While her brother, Ellis, and his friend try to find the Loch Ness monster in an attempt to get back into her father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Gruen 2015Ackerman, Sara
Summary: In the dizzying aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Daisy enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the WARDs guide pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. But not everyone thinks the women are up to the job. With America's future on the line, Daisy is determined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACKStridsberg, Sara
Summary: "In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRGómez, Sarah Hannah
Summary: Twelve-year-old Maribel daydreams at school, but when she defies evacuation orders to return home just as Mount St. Helens erupts in 1980, she must focus in order to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020