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Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

Summary: "During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRA

Edwards, Emily J.

Summary: "New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC EDW

Tang, Belinda Huijuan

Summary: Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family's rural village in China. Though they have been estranged for years, Yitian promises to come home. When Yitian attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate China's impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022

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Baldacci, David

Summary: It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BAL

Quinn, Kate

4 holds on 4 copies

Summary: San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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Tietjen, Katie

4 holds on 2 copies

Summary: Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start--until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024

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Arden, Katherine

Summary: "During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this historical novel with a speculative twist"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024

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Wilkes, Ally

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Victorian explorer William Day, 13 years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal and cannibalism, embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command during which he must face up to the things he's done as the restless dead follow closely behind.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Martinez, Gama Ray

Summary: "In this magical re-imagining of J.M. Barrie's classic tale, Michael Darling--the youngest of the Darling siblings and former Lost Boy, now all grown up--must return to the life he left behind to save Neverland from the brink of collapse and keep humanity safe from magical and mythological threats, as well as answer the ultimate question: Where is Peter Pan?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Thompson, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THO

Kulper, Kendall

Summary: In 1930s Hollywood, eighteen-year-old budding starlet Henrietta and her handsome-but-moody co-star Declan go from bitter enemies to reluctant partners when they become entangled in the disappearance of a beautiful young actress.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023

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

Todd, Charles

Summary: British World War I nurse Bess Crawford travels to Ireland for her best friend's wedding and unravels a dark, deceptive plot when the bridegroom goes missing.

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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 TOD

Gramont, Nina de

Summary: "Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. 'A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DEG

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

Wray, John

Summary: Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers--even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening to metal can get you arrested, but for the three of them the risk is well worth it, because metal is what leads them to one another. Different as they are, Kip, Leslie, and Kira form a family of sorts that proves far safer, and more loving, than the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRA

Benedict, Marie

Summary: In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car—strange for a frigid night. Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Eleven...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC BEN Book Club Kit (8 paperbacks)

Lehane, Dennis

Summary: "One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain...

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

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

Thomas, Sherry (Sherry M.)

Summary: "Charlotte Holmes comes face-to-face with her enemy when Moriarty turns to her in his hour of need in the USA Today bestselling series set in Victorian England. A most unexpected client shows up at Charlotte Holmes's doorstep: Moriarty himself. Moriarty fears that tragedy has befallen his daughter and wants Charlotte to find out the truth. Charlotte and Mrs. Watson travel to a remote community...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Jefferies, Dinah

Summary: An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise... A rebellious daughter. 1925. Among the ancient honey-colored walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer's job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret. 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEF

Williams, Beatriz

Summary: To save her sister, who, along with her American diplomat husband and children, is trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Ruth Macallister embarks on a dangerous mission, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet agent forces them to make a heartbreaking choice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIL

Gramont, Nina de

Summary: London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O'Dea became Archie Christie's mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The question is, why? Why destroy another woman's marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O'Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRA

McGill, C. E.

Summary: "Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how... The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary is keen to make her...

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

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCG

Gramont, Nina de

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gramont 2022

Rosen, Lev AC

Summary: "San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ROS

Hosein, Kevin Jared

Summary: "Trinidad in the 1940s, nearing the end of American occupation and British colonialism. On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognizable to those who reside in the farm's shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building ... divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops--Hans,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOS

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