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Parry, Leslie

Summary: "New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Carner, Talia

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Summary: Thelate 1800s find fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing with her family endless pogroms. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America. Feeling like a princess in a fairytale, Batya leaves her old life behind as she is whisked away to a new world. But soon she...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Charry, Brinda

Summary: "Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company's outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants--boys like himself, men from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Parry, Owen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PAR

Parry, Ambrose

Summary: "Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances. Simpson's protégé Will Raven and former housemaid Sarah...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Parry, Ambrose

Summary: "Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson. Simpson's patients range from the richest to the poorest of this divided city. His house is like no other, full of visiting luminaries and daring experiments in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Parry, Rosanne

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Summary: A stand-alone companion to the New York Times and Indie bestsellers A Wolf Called Wander and A Whale of the Wild. Exiled from his band, a young, wild horse must find his way across treacherous terrain to reunite with his family after being captured for the Pony Express. A fast-paced survival story about wild horses, family bonds, and a changing environment. Young colt Sky was born with the urge...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Parry, Ambrose

Summary: Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up at the Port of Leith. Stranger still, a man Raven has long detested is pleading for his help to escape the hangman. Back at 52 Queen Street, Sarah Fisher has set her sights on learning to practise medicine. Almost everyone seems intent on dissuading her from this ambition, but...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books Ltd. 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Parry, Owen.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTorch 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Parry, Owen.

Summary: During the Civil War, a quiet Welsh immigrant is ordered to investigate the murder of a Union officer, known for his abolitionist views. Captain Jones is an accountant, not a detective, one reason he was chosen, but he is a man of honor and he gives his nasty superiors a nasty surprise.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999

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Parry, Rosanne

Summary: Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range searching for fresh water and abundant grazing. But humans have begun to encroach on Sky's homelands. With fewer resources to share, Sky knows that he must leave if his family is to survive. He hopes that one day, he'll be strong and brave enough to return and challenge the stallion to lead the herd....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Kilworth, Garry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIL

Baily, Ginny

Summary: Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family. Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize what she has done. She is twenty-seven, with a sister who needs her constant care, a hazardous journey ahead, and now a child in her charge. Several...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAI

Fabry, Chris

Summary: "When eccentric millionaire Gideon Quidley receives a divine revelation to hide his earthly treasure somewhere in the hills, he sets out to find a fitting hiding spot, choosing only a few Bible verses as clues leading to untold riches of gold, silver, cash, and one very unexpected, and very costly, item. Treasure hunters descend upon the hills of West Virginia, including those surrounding the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAB

Barry, Sebastian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Barry, Sebastian

Summary: "In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of hislife with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Heyer, Georgette

Summary: What seems a marriage of convenience... When young newlywed Lady Nell Cardross begins to fill her days with fashion and frivolity, the earl has to wonder whether she really did marry him for his money, as his family so helpfully suggests. And now Nell doesn't dare tell him the truth ... Is getting trickier all the time... He thought he was marrying for love, but between his concern over his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2012

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Poyer, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POY

Barry, Jeff

4 holds on 1 copy

Summary: To what lengths will a father go to save his daughter? John, a former POW in WWII, thinks women are smarter than men. The three women in his life agree, especially when he brags about knowing more Shakespeare than anyone else in Hope Springs, Mississippi. Big John is overly proud of the only seven words of Shakespeare that he knows: The prince of darkness is a gentleman. When Big John and his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2024

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Barry, Sebastian

Summary: Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, seventeen-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Barry, Sebastian

Summary: When Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, is violently attacked, she takes matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice that will uncover the dark secrets of her past.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BAR

Unsworth, Barry

Summary: With the Greek fleet trapped in the straits of Aulis by storms, Iphigeneia, the daughter of Agamemnon, is brought to the coast under false pretenses in order to sacrifice her to appease the gods and allow the ships to continue their voyage to Troy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UNS

Barry, Amy

Summary: "The four McBride brothers have their worlds turned upside down when their precocious younger sister secretly places an advertisement for a mail-order bride. Kit McBride knows that Buck's Creek, Montana, is no place to find a wife. Between him and his three brothers-plus little Junebug-they manage all right on their own, thank you very much. But unbeknownst to Kit, his sister is sick to death...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Barry, Sebastian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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

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