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Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WANHaien, Jeannette.
Summary: When a World War II veteran returns home he struggles with self-doubt as his wife and children have changed, his successful business is gone, and he questions how to face the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIArden, Katherine
Summary: "During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this historical novel with a speculative twist"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
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Tanabe, Karin
Summary: "From Rodeo Drive to the French Riviera, Karin Tanabe's The Sunset Crowd is a tale of survival and reinvention, of faking it until you make it, and the glittering appeal of success and stardom, as it seeks to answer that timeless question--who gets to have the American dream? Money and fame: in 1970's Los Angeles, everyone is fighting to reach the top, but very few have the talent, ambition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANArlen, Tessa
Summary: "A Death by Any Other Name is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in the English countryside. Building on the success of her last two mysteries in the same series, Tessa Arlen returns us to the same universe full of secrets, intrigue, and, this time, roses. The elegant Lady Montfort and her redoubtable housekeeper Mrs. Jackson's services are called upon after a cook is framed and dismissed for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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Summary: "An evocative historical novel set in 1930's Indochine, about the American wife of a Michelin heir who journeys to the French colony in the name of family fortune, and the glamorous, tumultuous world she finds herself in-and the truth she may be running from. On a humid afternoon in 1933, American Jessie Lesage steps off a boat from Paris and onto the shores of Vietnam. Accompanying her French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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Summary: It is the late autumn of 1942. Our indomitable heroine Poppy Redfern is thoroughly immersed in her new job as a scriptwriter at the London Crown Film Unit, which produces short films featuring British civilians who perform acts of valour and heroism in wartime. After weeks of typing copy and sharpening pencils, Poppy is thrilled to receive her first solo script project - a 15-minute film about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2021
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Summary: "Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's degenerate nephew is found murdered, it's more than the ball that is ruined. In fact, Lady Montfort fears...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARLHarper, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "Harper's fast-paced, suspenseful ninth historical (after 2005's The Fatal Fashione) finds Elizabeth I beset by Spanish antagonism at sea and by political rivals in England, especially the scheming Mary, Queen of Scots, and the rebellious northern lords. While on a summer outing in 1569 with her new ally, Francis Drake, an arrow barely misses Elizabeth, claiming the life of her falconer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarper, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: Promoting themselves from genteel poverty to fame, two beautiful sisters, one a daring fashion designer and the other a writer of scandalous novels, become each other's most staunch supporter and harshest critic in the face of misunderstandings and confidences.
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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 HARWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a story of friendship past and present, love, and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day. London, 1939. In a city on the brink of war, beautiful and ambitious Eva Harlow and her best friend, sweet Southerner Precious Dubose, are young models on the rise--and a duo as close as sisters. But when Eva...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIHarper, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: Celebrating the yuletide with feasts, wassailing, mummer performances, and mistletoe, the young queen and her court are challenged to identify who among them is a would-be murderer who is targeting the throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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Summary: "1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth--"the queen mother"--shows a warm, smiling face to the world. But it's no surprise that Hitler himself calls her the "Most Dangerous Woman in Europe." For behind that soft voice and kindly demeanor is a will of steel. Two years earlier, George was thrust onto the throne when his brother Edward abdicated,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Harper 2020Harper, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her 'The Wedding of the Century' to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind 'the glitter and the gold.' Consuelo finds the inner strength to make the best of a life she did not choose"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: Reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Harper 2019Harper, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: The invention of starch has a profound influence on the fashion styles of Elizabethan England, but the lucrative commodity also leads to the murder of the royal starcher, followed by the killings of two other women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHarper, Karen (Karen S.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARBrooks, Karen
Summary: "Damnation has never been so sweet.... When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, the midwives are afraid, believing her a changeling. But Rosamund's life is set to be anything but enchanted.... Born into poverty, brutalised and ignored by her family, it is only when she is married off to a nobleman that her life undergoes a transformation, as her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROHarper, Karen
Summary: In April 1897, Charlotte Bill enters service into the house of the Duke and Duchess of York as a nanny. For decades, "Lala", as she is called, cares for her royal charges, some of which will rule, and one known as "The Lost Prince". (summary).
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins 2016
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Summary: In 1348, as the Black Plague holds England in it's grip, nine strangers attempt to outrun death. Each member has their own story to tell and each has a secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
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Summary: Nineteen-year-old Nell Hallam lives in a modest corner of Mayfair with her brother Matthew, an inspector at Scotland Yard. An exceptionally talented pianist, she aspires to attend the Royal Academy; but with tuition beyond their means, Nell sets out to earn the money herself--by playing piano in a popular Soho music hall. And the fact that she will have to disguise herself as a man and slip out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Odden 2018Robards, Karen
Summary: "A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 0000
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Summary: "A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Robards 2020Campbell, Karen
Summary: "Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live? As Germans occupy the mountains surrounding Barga and American Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested and families torn apart. Frank Chapel,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Circus 2019