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Harper, Elodie

Summary: Amara's journey has taken her far; from enslavement in Pompeii's Wolf Den brothel to her new life as a high-powered courtesan in Rome, but her story is not over yet. While Amara plays for power in Rome's imperial palace, those dearest to her remain in Pompeii. But it is 79 CE, and mighty Mount Vesuvius is about to make itself known...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square and Co. 2023

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Moyes, Jojo

3 holds on 6 copies

Summary: "Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOY

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOY

Moyes, Jojo

Summary: "Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC MOY

Davies, Carys

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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Supplee, Suzanne

Summary: "Almost-eleven-year-old Josephine is NOT pleased to be moving into the Happy World trailer park over the summer of 1974. She misses her beautiful bedroom with ballerinas on the wall and her pretty, well-dressed friends. Happy World isn't happy. It's dingy and depressing! Nothing like the world that headstrong Josephine wants for herself. But when Josephine learns that her would-be next door...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SUP

Ryan, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)

Summary: "On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024

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Dallas, Sandra

Summary: ""Addictive. Highly recommended!"-Paulette Jiles, New York Times bestselling author of News of the World Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth century West, from master storyteller Sandra Dallas. Except for the way they loved each other, they were just ordinary, everyday folks. Just ordinary. 1916. The two-street town of Wallace is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAL

Dimaline, Cherie

Summary: In this queer reimaging of The secret garden, fifteen-year-old orphan Mary sets off to live in the Georgian Bay wilds where she discovers family secrets both wonderful and horrifying.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Gilbert, Julie

Summary: For young Cora Moffat March 18, 1925 has been a bad day, but it gets much worse when her school is hit by the Tri-State Tornado, and she, her twin brother and her former best friend Claire, struggle to survive as the school and town are destroyed around them. Includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GIL

O'Neil, Carolyn Tara

Summary: Set during the height of the Russian Revolution and told in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Evgenia--a peasant and proud member of the Bolshevik party--agrees to help a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl traverse the war-torn countryside in search of safety, but Anna is harboring a secret that could cost them their lives. Includes historical note and author's note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC O'NE

Clare, Cassandra

Summary: Engaged to marry James Herondale, Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. But James and Cordelia's marriage is a lie, arranged to save Cordelia's reputation. James is in love with Grace Blackthorn whose brother, Jesse, died years ago in a terrible accident. The sword Cortana burns Cordelia's hand when she touches it, while her father has grown bitter and angry. And a serial...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021

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

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

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

Bromfield, Asha

Summary: It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023

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

Weymouth, Laura E.

Summary: Wilhelmina Price has a dubious reputation in the village of Thrush's Green. Ever since her mother's untimely death, she has been able to see a person's spirit leaving their body days or hours before they die. Wil has never been able to prevent these deaths, so her unusual skill has made her an outsider to most except her lifelong friend, Edison, the youngest son of Lord Summerfield. But when a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023

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

Brainerd, Amanda

Summary: Over the course of one year at a Connecticut boarding school and a transformative summer in New York City in the 1980s, three young women negotiate friendship, crushes, parties, privilege, and the sexual interest of older men on the journey from innocence to independence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Farrant, Natasha

Summary: In the aftermath of World War I, two orphaned friends set off in a narrowboat from England as each hopes to find a missing part of themselves in France.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2021

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

Matar, Hisham

Summary: "One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words - and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa - Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Van Draanen, Wendelin

Summary: In 1936, at seven, Ginny Rose and Peggy were best friends, picking peaches on hot summer days. Peggy's family owned the farm, and Ginny Rose's were pickers, escaping the Oklahoma dust storms. Ten years, hard miles, and a world war later, Ginny Rose's family is back in town and their differences feel somehow starker. Especially since Peggy's new best friend, Lisette, is a wealthy banker's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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

Krueger, William Kent.

Summary: Minnesota, 1932. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KRU

Lowry, Lois

Summary: Told in two voices, two outcasts in an Iron Age village befriend each other, as disabled, orphaned Varick helps Estrild achieve her dream of becoming the first female warrior. Inspired by the Windeby bog body.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LOW

DeKeyser, Stacy

Summary: In 1948 Milwaukee, twelve-year-old Nick's expectations for summer crumble when he ends up working at a frozen custard stand at the zoo, but with a competitor who plays dirty tricks and a runaway polar bear Nick's summer turns out more eventful than he imagined.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023

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Schellman, Katharine

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of London's upper crust. At a ball thrown by her oldest friend, Lady Walter, she expects the scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn't expect is the dead body in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCH

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Fiction Schellman 2020

Brennan, Linda Crotta

Summary: Brigit, a girl with selkie heritage, embarks on a perilous journey with newcomer Peter to confront the Great Selkie in Sule Skerrie in order to prevent a curse that threatens her village's safety.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

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

Lyons, Annie

Summary: "London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the...

Format: text

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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