Williams, Beatriz
Summary: In 1954, Emilia Winthrop, a professor at Wellesley College, is summoned to CIA headquarters, where she is forced to confront the harrowing consequences of the summer she exposed a traitor amongst the New England elite and a choice that could destroy her chance for redemption all over again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SEABenedict, Marie
Summary: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BENChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy's friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows whoʼs responsible--the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THORutledge, Lynda
Summary: "'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023