Filter By Subjects
England England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Great Britain Great Britain History Regency, 1811-1820 Fiction Large type books Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Fiction Manners and customs Relations entre hommes et femmes Romans, nouvelles, etc United StatesFilter By Subjects
England England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Great Britain Great Britain History Regency, 1811-1820 Fiction Large type books Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Fiction Manners and customs Relations entre hommes et femmes Romans, nouvelles, etc United StatesQuinn, Julia
Summary: "In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours. Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent--not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: Controlled by a domineering mother and an over-opinionated family, Valency Stirling awakens on her twenty-ninth birthday resigned to dull existence. Her only escape is the Blue Castle of her imagination. But when an unexpected letter changes everything, Valency breaks the bonds of fear and finds purpose in a whole new life that turns the Blue Castle of her dreams into a reality.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MONBryan, J. G.
Summary: As seniors in high school during the late 70s in SoCal's San Fernando Valley, Douglas and his friends explore the city of Los Angeles, get stoned, tour the Manson murders locations, obsess over girls, and go to prom in powder blue tuxes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press, LLC 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRYAustin, Finola
Summary: "Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson - mistress of Thorp Green Hall - has lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more. All of that changes with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUSRivers, Francine
Summary: In 1875, Kathryn Walsh settles in frontier California. Moved by the oppression of local miners, she decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper, putting her in the spotlight of Calvada's most powerful men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIVWhite, Roseanna M.
Summary: "Sabina Mancari never questioned her life as the daughter of Chicago's leading mob boss until bullets tear apart her world and the man she thought she loved turns out to be an undercover Prohibition agent. Ambushes, bribes, murder, prostitution -- all her life, her father sheltered her from his crimes, but now she can no longer turn away from the truth. Maybe Lorenzo, the fiancé who barely paid...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Balogh, Mary
Summary: Lady Jennifer Arden and Ben Ellis know that a match between them is out of the question. A duke's sister certainly cannot marry the bastard son of an earl. Except sometimes, love can find a way.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC BALCook, Lorna
Summary: "1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will cause three of them to disappear forever. 2018: Melissa had hoped a break on the coast of Dorset would rekindle her stagnant relationship, but despite the idyllic scenery, it's pushing her and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOJenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: "Pamela Binnings Ewen's newest novel reveals the story of Émilienne, once the most beautiful, sought-after woman in Paris during the Belle Époque, the era of peaceful years just before World War I. As a girl, Émilienne fights her way through poverty in Montmartre, drawn to the lights of Paris below. Soon, she stars at the Folies Bergère, mistress of kings and princes, known as the most...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWEByrd, Sandra
Summary: "Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father's passing and her uncle's decline into dementia, the family business is at risk. In the Victorian era, unmarried Eleanor cannot run Sheffield Brothers alone. The death of a longtime client, Baron Lydney, offers an unexpected complication when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYREllis, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD FIC ELLBelfoure, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELConnealy, Mary
Summary: "After his father's death, Kevin Hunt inherits a ranch in Wyoming-the only catch is it also belongs to a half brother he never knew existed. But danger follows Kevin, and he suspects his half brother is behind it. The only one willing to stand between them is Winona Martin-putting her in the cross hairs of a perilous plot and a risk at love"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONRussell, Sheldon
Summary: "In the American West, as the nation heals from the Civil War that nearly destroyed it, new battle lines are being drawn. Caleb Justin, orphaned and grieving, and his comrade Joshua Hart, a tough, worldly runaway, leave their home along the Ohio River bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, intent to join Sheridan's troops in their pursuit of Indian lands. But a badly healed foot injury ends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cennan Books, an imprint of Cynren Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSHoward, Amalie
Summary: "Lady Ela Dalvi knows the exact moment her life was forever changed--when her best friend, Poppy, betrayed her without qualm over a boy, the son of a duke. She was sent away in disgrace, her reputation ruined. Nearly three years later, eighteen-year-old Ela is consumed with bitterness and a desire for . . . revenge. Her enemy is quickly joining the crème de la crème of high society while she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Joy Revolution 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOWConnealy, Mary
Summary: Falcon Hunt traveled west, compelled to start a new life by a surprise telegram that promised him an inheritances and a family in Wyoming. But shortly after arriving, he wakes in a river, completely unaware of who or where he is. As he tries to regain his memory, he meets two men who claim to be his half brothers and the prettiest woman in the area Cheyenne Brewster. Only trouble is, a few...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONCampbell, Karen
Summary: "Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live? As Germans occupy the mountains surrounding Barga and American Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested and families torn apart. Frank Chapel,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Circus 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: 1901. When The Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, the eldest son of the noble Tallant family must step forward to replace him as the head of the family. But Giles has avoided the Castle and his stifling relatives for years, deciding instead to forge his own path away from the spotlight. Now, he must put aside his ambitions and honour his duty to the family. With their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARQuinn, Julia
Summary: In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUIBurrowes, Grace
Summary: Ned Wentworth will be forever grateful to the family that plucked him from the streets and gave him a home, even though polite society still whispers years later about his questionable past. Precisely because of Ned's connections in low places, Lady Rosalind Kinwood approaches him to help her find a lady's maid who has disappeared. Rosalind is too opinionated--and too intelligent--and has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURFyffe, Caroline
Summary: Four sisters move to Eden, Colorado after their father's death. How does one choose between the life she has and the life she wants? Especially when she's so utterly vexed by the handsome scoundrel who's just arrived in Eden. Rhett Laughlin intends to fulfill a dream and open a profitable restaurant in the growing town. Instead, he's marched right into trouble with one of Eden's most eligible...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Fyffe 2018Bradford, Barbara Taylor
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?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Fisher, Suzanne Woods
Summary: "On a hot day in 1737 in Rotterdam, Anna Konig reluctantly sets foot on a merchant ship that will carry her and her fellow Amish believers across the Atlantic to start a new life. As the only one in her community who can speak English, she feels compelled to go. But Anna is determined to complete this journey and return home. Ship's carpenter Bairn resents the somber people who fill the lower...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015