George, Margaret
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Margaret George has brought history to vivid life with her chronicles of queens and kings. Now, she turns her gaze to an Emperor ... Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar's imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next person who seeks to control it. In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman--or child....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOGeorge, Margaret
Summary: "Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar's imperial dynasty is only as strong as the next person who seeks to control it. In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman--or child. As a boy, Nero's royal heritage becomes a threat to his very life, first when the mad emperor Caligula tries to drown him, then when his great aunt attempts to secure...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOGeorge, Margaret
Summary: The author brings life and authenticity to the tale of the Egyptian queen who, after a lifetime of passion and power, chooses to end her existence rather than suffer humiliation at the hands of her Roman conquerors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOGeorge, Margaret
Summary: With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side, Nero Augustus commands the Roman empire, ushering in an unprecedented era of artistic and cultural splendor. Although he has yet to produce an heir, his power is unquestioned. But in the tenth year of his reign, a terrifying prophecy comes to pass and a fire engulfs Rome, reducing entire swaths of the city to rubble. Rumors of Nero's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GEOEngle, Margarita
Summary: In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGBerne, Lisa
Summary: "Philip Thane--rogue, rake and scoundrel extraordinaire--hadn't wanted to visit some dumpy provincial town to give a speech, but he'd struck a devil's bargain with old Henrietta Penhallow, the imperious family matriarch. Nor did he expect that once he got there, he'd somehow be living the same day over and over again. It's strange! It's terrible! On the other hand, it is giving him time to cozy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBainbridge, Beryl
Summary: "In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a young English woman, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold. In her suitcase are a polka dot dress and a one-way ticket. In an America recently convulsed by the April assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent urban riots, they begin a search for the charismatic and elusive Dr. Wheeler - sage,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAIMatthews, Beryl.
Summary: In 1938 England, orphan siblings Hanna and Jack are split up when a family chooses to adopt Jack, but after he is mistreated in his new home, Jack flees to join the navy and faces the possibility of fighting in the impending war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATBerg, Elizabeth
Summary: "Nola McCollum is the most desirable girl in Arthur's class, and he is thrilled when they become friends. But Arthur wants far more than friendship. Unfortunately, Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses, Arthur's older brother, Frank, who is busy pursuing his own love interest and avoiding the boys father, a veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bergren, Lisa Tawn
Summary: "In 1772 England, Lady Keturah Banning Tomlinson and her sisters find themselves the heiresses of their father's estates and know they have one option: Go to the West Indies to save what is left of their heritage. Although it flies against all the conventions for women of the time, they're determined to make their own way in the world. But once they arrive in the Caribbean, proper gender roles...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Berne, Emma Carlson
Summary: "Kaya is a Nez Perce girl who takes pride in helping out and supporting the tribe--and also in her beloved horse, Steps High. But when she chooses racing her horse over family responsibilities, Kaya has to prove herself to earn her tribe's respect. Kaya's story of adventure in the wilderness is sure to engage today's readers as they learn what it was like to be a Native American girl in 1764 in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Books for Young Readers 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BERBerne, Emma Carlson
Summary: When a Philadelphia girl intercepts a message about an impending British attack against her father's regiment, commanded by General Washington, in White Marsh, she travels alone by horseback to warn the Patriot army.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BERBerg, Gretchen
Summary: The Operator by Gretchen Berg delivers a vivid look inside the heads and hearts of a group of housewives and pokes at the absurdities of 1950s America, a simpler time that was far from simple. In a small town, everyone knows everyone else's business... Nobody knows the people of Wooster, Ohio, better than switchboard operator Vivian Dalton, and she'd be the first to tell you that. She calls it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Berg 2020Yang, Belle
Summary: "After the defeat of Japan in World War II, China is plunged into a civil war between Communist and Nationalist forces. The old and respected Manchurian House of Yang is toppled in the chaos, and seventeen-year-old Baba, the Yangs' fourth and most audacious son, is forced to leave Manchuria and his family behind."--BOOK JACKET. "He journeys south on blistered feet, plagued by constant hunger....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANFrazer, Margaret.
Summary: Accompanying a nunnery pupil and her mother on their return home, medieval nun Dame Frevisse becomes caught up in dark family secrets, mystery, and murder when a family member dies under mysterious circumstances.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAMitchell, Margaret
Summary: After the Civil War sweeps away the genteel life to which she has been accustomed, Scarlett O'Hara sets about to salvage her plantation home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2011
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MITVerble, Margaret
Summary: "Eastern Oklahoma, 1928. Eighteen-year-old Maud Nail lives with her rogue father and sensitive brother on one of the allotments parceled out by the U.S. government to the Cherokees when their land was confiscated for Oklahoma's statehood. Maud's days are filled with hard work and simple pleasures, but often marked by violence and tragedy, a fact that she accepts with determined practicality....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Frazer, Margaret.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAMeyer, Margaret
Summary: "East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEYVerble, Margaret
Summary: An epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerble, Margaret
Summary: "Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERVerble, Margaret
Summary: "Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERMallory, Margaret
Summary: Lady Isobel Hume, an expert swordswoman who agrees to obey her king and wed a French nobleman to form a political alliance, is tempted to betray both her betrothed and her country when she falls in love with Sir Stephen Carleton.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALBall, Margaret
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2007