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Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUS

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Peace Conference convenes, there historic luminaries invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Hill, Donna (Donna O.)

Summary: Follows the 1964 Civil Rights-era relationship between a passive-resistance protaegae of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a Harlem black culture supporter of Malcolm X.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sideways Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Thorland, Donna

Summary: "The acclaimed author of Mistress Firebrand and The Turncoat continues "her own revolution in American historical romance"* with another smart, sexy, swashbuckling novel set during the American Revolution. Manhattan and the Hudson River Valley, 1778. The British control Manhattan, the Rebels hold West Point, and the Dutch patroons reign in feudal splendor over their vast Hudson River Valley...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Winters, Donna.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bigwater Pub. 1989

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Thorland, Donna.

Summary: "British Occupied Manhattan, 1777. With her witty comedies, American actress Jennifer Leighton has been packing the John Street Theater, but she longs to escape the provincial circuit for the glamour of the London stage. When the playwright General John Burgoyne visits the city, fresh from a recent success on the Continent, she seizes the opportunity to court his patronage. But her plan is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library, Published by the Penguin Group 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Thorland, Donna

Summary: Rebel Kate Gray cannot resist the advances of British Major Peter Tremayne, but after a member of her own family steals his military dispatches, Peter, having narrowly escaped hanging, vows to get revenge on Kate.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Thorland, Donna.

Summary: "1775, Boston Harbor. The gold is Spanish, the sloop is American, and the captain is dead. James Sparhawk, master and commander in the British Navy, knows trouble when he sees it. The ship he's boarded is carrying ammunition for ballast and a fortune in foreign gold ... into a country on the very knife's edge of war. Sparhawk's duty is clear: confiscate the bullion, impound the vessel, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Winters, Donna.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bigwater Pub. 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Gabaldon, Diana

Summary: "1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB PT 1 OF 2

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB PT 1 OF 2

Gabaldon, Diana

Summary: "1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB PT 2 OF 2

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB PT 2 OF 2

Gabaldon, Diana.

Summary: In the seventh installment of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, Jamie Fraser and his time-traveling wife Claire face an abundance of daunting obstacles in the midst of the American Revolution. While they already know how history will play out, they are uncertain of their own futures.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB VOL 1
Call number: CD FIC GAB VOL 2

Deveraux, Jude.

Summary: Laird Angus McTern and Edilean travel from Scotland to America to reclaim the gold she inherited from her father.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DEV

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