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Summary: Still mourning the drowning death of her sister Suzy, Nellie Fisher seeks solace in her bakery and a growing interest in Caleb Yoder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEWBeverley, Jo.
Summary: Orphaned and desperate, Imogen of Carrisford flees when a brutal lord invades and takes possesion of her castle. Only one man, rumored to be a ruthless champion in battle, can defend and protect her: Fitzroger of Cleeve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEVBeverley, Jo.
Summary: In 18th century England, at the age of seventeen, Lt. Christian Hill impulsively defends young Dorcas Froggatt's honor - and finds himself forced into marriage. That doesn't stop him from pursuing his military career abroad, where he swiftly puts his young bride out of his mind - until the past comes back to haunt him. Not long after her traumatic marriage, Dorcas heard that her new husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEVCleverly, Barbara.
Summary: Returning to England only to discover that his role at the Metropolitan Police has expanded to include the Special Irish Branch, Joe Sandilands struggles with regional terrorism while clashing with a Russian princess who is running a spy network out of Kensington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Constable 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECleverly, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECleverly, Barbara.
Summary: When the body of a young woman is found buried along the banks of the Thames in 1933, Scotland Yard Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands juggles the case with an increasingly dangerous assignment protecting an American senator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECleverly, Barbara
Summary: "Redfyre becomes caught in a dark tale of revenge, betrayal and injustice--a lingering mystery from a long-forgotten war"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLECleverly, Barbara.
Summary: After the murder of her beloved uncle Daniel, archaeologist Laetitia Talbot receives a posthumously delivered postcard that takes her to the excavation in Burgundy where her uncle had spent his final days and finds herself searching for a long-lost repository of Templar treasure, as well as for a killer who will do anything to keep an ancient legacy hidden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2008
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Summary: When his traveling companion is killed at his side while they drive through the Indian countryside, Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands investigates and finds himself digging into another related murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2003
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Summary: Since Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands was going to drive down to the French Riviera for a vacation, he agreed to drop his niece off at a chateau along the way for a visit with her father. But when the pair arrive at the chateau, they find recent vandalism has caused an uneasy atmosphere among the guests. When a child goes missing and then a murder occurs, Sandilands realizes he is no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Constable 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLELowkis, Carmella
Summary: "A deliciously haunted debut set in 19th century Paris in which two estranged sisters-formerly celebrated (and fraudulent) spirit mediums-come back together for one last con"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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Summary: Logan Yates, a self-important ranch owner, must confront his feelings for his beautiful, free spirited housekeeper, Mariah Cooper. While they bicker incessantly, their sexual tension is palpable, and it only rises when potential suitors start paying visits to Mariah. Will she accept Logan's heart?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Raised as a slave, Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the façade when he becomes fascinated with the beautiful black woman he rescued in the desert"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENJenkins, Beverly
Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Spring Lee, running her own ranch in Paradise, Wyoming, second guesses her resolve to avoid men when a reporter arrives to interview her brother and becomes enamored with her instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: In New York during the War of 1812, a fleet owner, a merchant prince, and the women who love them struggle to make choices between patriotism and betrayal while their nation struggles against the invading forces of a foreign power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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Summary: In the years following the Civil War, as Manhattan experiences a surge in prosperity, Joshua Turner aspires to become a real-estate titan while Mollie Brannigan, raised by her aunt in a bordello, sees her life change after a chance encounter with Joshua in Macy's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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Summary: "This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Letts 2019Letts, Elizabeth
Summary: "This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC LET BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperback copies)Enger, Leif.
Summary: An aging train robber on a quest to reconcile with his wife and a failed writer head west and are pursued by an ex-Pinkerton who's been hunting the train robber for years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: "In this second volume, Beau L'Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father's notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written as well as speculating about the ways they might have ended. These selections include the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMLewis, Stephen
Summary: Told in the compelling voice of Rachel Moore, a housemaid in 17th century Puritan Boston and featuring that colony's two most powerful figures in Governor John Winthrop and his courageous opponent Anne Hutchinson, From Infamy to Hope is the story of the religious persecution of a servant girl made pregnant by rape. Convicted of fornication, she is sentenced to wear a black W for "whore" on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Austin Macauley Publishers 2023
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Summary: In the summer of 1895, Woodruff Parmelee, the son of a well to do farmer on Old Mission Peninsula, was tried for the murder of Julia Curtis, his pregnant girlfriend. On the day the verdict was announced a large and menacing crowd gathered in and around the courthouse demanding that justice be done. Parmelee’s defense rested on his alibi. He claimed that he was clearing brush for a new road...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LewisCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI FIC LEWLewis, Stephen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2001