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Family secrets Fiction Female friendship Fiction FICTION / Coming of Age FICTION / Family Life / Siblings FICTION / Historical / General New York (N.Y.) History 20th century Fiction Nurses Fiction Women Institutional care Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Women FictionMessineo, Teresa
Summary: In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift medical unit. Enemy bombs have destroyed her hospital convoy, and now Jo singlehandedly struggles to keep her patients and herself alive in a cramped and freezing tent close to German troops. There is a growing tenderness between her and one of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MESMedeiros, Teresa
Summary: Gwendolyn Wilder did not believe in dragons. But the superstitious villagers of Ballybliss did, and so Gwendolyn found herself bound to a post as a sacrificial offering to the Dragon who haunted the ruins of Castle Weyrcraig. Fifteen years earlier, someone had betrayed the Laird of Weyrcraig and his handsome young heir to the English for a thousand pounds in gold. Now the Dragon was demanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEDMedeiros, Teresa
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MEDBerest, Anne
Summary: "Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBurdick, Serena
Summary: Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. But then one morning she is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy, and the only way to free...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020