Finkbeiner, 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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Summary: The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARRuiz, Rudy.
Summary: "Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He'd made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUIMomaday, N. Scott
Summary: A novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOMBelfoure, Charles
Summary: "St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives a life of luxury and comfort, by the side of his beautiful but spiteful wife, Princess Lara. But when Dimitri is confronted by the death and destruction wrought by a pogrom, he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: "London. December, 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope, secret agent and spy, takes a break from the Special Operations Executive division to defuse bombs in London. But Maggie herself is like an explosion waiting to happen. Shaken by a recent case, she finds herself living more dangerously--taking more risks than usual, smoking again, drinking gin and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMacNeal, Susan Elia
Summary: London, December 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope finds herself living dangerously as a spy. When she's called upon to look into the theft of a Stradivarius, one of the finest violins ever made, Maggie can't resist. Meanwhile, there's a serial killer on the loose in London, targeting conscientious objectors. Little does she know that investigating this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MACBinder, L. Annette
Summary: "In 1945, as the war in Germany nears its violent end, the Huber family is not yet free of its dangers or its insidious demands. Etta, a mother from a small, rural town, has two sons serving their home country: her elder, Max, on the Eastern front, and her younger, Georg, at a school for Hitler Youth. When Max returns from the front, Etta quickly realizes that something is not right-he is thin,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BINCameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMGonzalez, Xochitl
Summary: It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo are bold faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular Congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GONChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britains factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: It takes courage to save yourself...In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor, hacking into tree trunks to draw out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling the resin to stills to be refined. Among them is Rae Lynn Cobb and her husband, Warren, who run a small turpentine farm together.Though the work is hard and often dangerous, Rae Lynn, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVEAlvarez, Julia
Summary: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
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Dueñas, María
Summary: La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona Madrid en los meses previos al alzamiento y se instala en Tánger con un amante que apenas conoce. Al encontrarse abandonada, Sira se traslada a Tetuán, forja una nueva identidad y logra poner en marcha un selecto atelier en el que atiende a clientas de orígenes remotos y presentes insospechados. Esa novela avanza con ritmo imparable por los mapas, la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temas De Hoy 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC DUESegovia, Sofía
Summary: En Linares, al norte del país, con la revolución mexicana como telón de fondo. Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un bebé misterioso y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conversar y cuidar al...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH SEGPeebles, Frances de Pontes
Summary: "The story of an intense female friendship fueled by admiration and affection, envy and pride -- and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PEEMawer, Simon.
Summary: As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAWRobuck, Erika
Summary: "A heart-stopping new novel, based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of WWII, from the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman. Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to resist. 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family's wishes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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Summary: "In 1927 Vermont, eleven-year-old Donut, recently orphaned after the death of her beloved pops, stands to lose everything when she learns her Aunt Agnes plans to move her to Boston, but little does her aunt know that Donut has no intentions of leaving her friends or her home." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KALKleypas, Lisa
Summary: Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, has never been tempted to embark on an affair. Until now.... Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, as gallant as he is secretive, is rumored to be an assassin. For one exhilarating night they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. As a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLEHadlow, Janice
Summary: "What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HADGregory, Philippa
Summary: Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREEllis, Janet
Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD FIC ELLMoore, Heather B.
Summary: "A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2020