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Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)

Summary: Fern and her mother have always lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the mansion of the Davenport family. She developed a friendship with Dr. Davenport's son, Ryder, and enjoyed free range of the estate. When Dr. Davenport remarries, his new wife has very different ideas about a servant's place. Now Fern and her mother are subject to cruel punishments, harsh conditions, and aren't even allowed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC AND

Hawkins, Rachel

4 holds on 12 copies

Summary: "When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAW

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAW

Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)

Summary: Fern and her mother live as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family. And her friendship with Dr. Davenport's son Ryder was never a problem... until they came of age. An intimate encounter following the high school prom brings the pair near-tragic consequences. But the real threat to their happiness is something no one can control: the past, and the truths...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AND

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Andrews 2018

Hawkins, Rachel

Summary: As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Rose, M. J.

Summary: "In this riveting and richly drawn novel from "one of the master storytellers of historical fiction" (New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams), a talented young artist flees New York for Paris after one of her scandalous drawings reveals a dark secret--and triggers a terrible tragedy. In the wake of a dark and brutal World War, the glitz and glamour of 1925 Manhattan shine like a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc. 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Tanzer, Molly

Summary: "A Victorian urban fantasy featuring duelists, demons, and the dark arts, inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray. Victorian London is a place of fluid social roles, vibrant arts culture, fin-de-siecle wonders. and dangerous underground diabolic cults. Fencer Evadne Gray cares for none of the former and knows nothing of the latter when she's sent to London to chaperone her younger sister,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAN

Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)

Summary: "Renowned for her singing across the English countryside, Emma is tired of performing only in pubs and at church services. She's determined to leave her misty hometown for the dazzling streets of New York City. She'll become a Broadway star, or die trying. Her father, stubborn and full of rage, disowns her on the spot. But with her heart set on a glittering future that she'll do anything to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC AND

Ward, Catriona

Summary: "Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist. Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAR

Card, Maisy

Summary: "Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Card 2020

Ward, Catriona

Summary: At the turn of England's century, as the wind whistles in the lonely halls of Rawblood, young Iris Villarca is the last of her family's line. They are haunted, through the generations, by "her," a curse passed down through ancient blood that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak. Iris forsakes her promise to her father, to remain alone, safe from the world. She dares to fall in love, and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WAR

Webb, Wendy (Wendy K.)

Summary: In the tourist town of Wharton, on the coast of Lake Superior, Tess Bell is renovating her old family home into a bed-and-breakfast during the icy dead of winter... As the house's restoration commences, a shuttered art studio is revealed. Inside are paintings Tess's late grandfather, beloved and celebrated artist Sebastian Bell, hid away for generations. But these appear to be the works of a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEB

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Webb

Halls, Stacey

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira/Harlequin Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAL

Perec, Georges

Summary: "As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, A Void's protagonist, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, is unaccountably found missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. All that it brings to light, though, is Vowl's liking (uncannily similar to his author's) for parody,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvill 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

Alender, Katie

Summary: The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALE

Feehan, Christine

Summary: "Experience a connection that defies death in this captivating novel in Christine Feehan's #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series. Safia Meziane has trained since birth to protect her tribe, the family she holds so dear. All along she told herself the legends she was raised with were simply that. But now, she must call upon all of her skills to fight what lies ahead. Evil has come to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEE

Chance, Megan

Summary: The eve of destruction. After her mother's death, penniless May Kimble lives a lonely life until an aunt she didn't know existed summons her to San Francisco. There she's welcomed into the wealthy Sullivan family and their social circle. Initially overwhelmed by the opulence of her new life, May soon senses that dark mysteries lurk in the shadows of the Sullivan mansion. Her glamorous cousin...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Gibson, S. T.

Summary: "Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NYX Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIB

Terciero, Rey

Summary: "Cade Munoz has has always loved to escape into the world of a good horror movie. After all, horror movies are scary, but to Cade--a closeted queer teen growing up in rural Texas--real life can be way scarier. When Cade is sent to spend the summer working as a ranch hand to help earn extra money for his family, he is horrified. Cade hates everything about the ranch, from the early mornings to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 TER

Harrow, Alix E.

Summary: I dream sometimes about a house I've never seen... Opal is a lot of things--orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier--but above all, she's a determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things: bad luck and E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth century author of The Underland,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAR

Wright, Jaime Jo

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a housemaid position and finds that the eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides a story more harrowing than those in her novels. Centuries later, Cleo Clemmons uncovers an age-old mystery, and the dust of the old castle's curse threatens to rise again, this time leaving no one alive to tell its sordid tale"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRI

Jackson, Shirley

Summary: Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAC

Mesa, Sara

Summary: "Set entirely at Wybrany College--a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities--Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's 'program' is always palpable, but never explicit. The mysteries populating the novel open with the disappearance of one of the 'special', scholarship students. As the first part unfolds, it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MES

Hawkins, Rachel

Summary: As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAW

Rose, M. J.

Summary: "As World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers in this rich and romantic ghost story set in Paris"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROS

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Rose 2016

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