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Mathieu, Jennifer

Summary: In this gender-flipping reimagining of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" set in 1964 Houston, Evie must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knows about loyalty after she is saved from the unimaginable by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: YA Fiction Mathieu 2021

Énard, Mathias

Summary: "As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENA

Mathis, Ayana.

Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Mills, Magnus.

Summary: In his terse new tour de force of a tale, Mills gives history a shake, and you'll never guess what the fallout is. Set at the dawn of the great age of exploration, the era of Shackleton and Perry and Scott, the book presents the adventures of two intrepid teams, both vying to reach the AFP, or Agreed Furthest Point-a worthy, even ennobling cause. The competition is friendly but conditions are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIL

Mones, Nicole.

Summary: ""Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, and from the classical...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MON

Mathis, Ayana.

Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAT

Mathis, Ayana

Summary: From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Mathis, Ayana.

Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mathis 2012

Mathis, Ayana.

Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Janes, Diane

Summary: Tom Dod's Aunt Hetty is worried -- three sudden deaths have occurred in the sleepy village of Durley Dean. They might seem like tragic accidents, but Aunt Hetty isn't so sure. After all, all three took a stand against Reverend Pinder, the new vicar of St Agnes Church, whose controversial changes have divided the congregation. But is there really a killer among the parishioners? And while Fran...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Janes 2018

Haines, Carolyn.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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

Agee, Jonis.

Summary: After arriving at the family estate of her husband Clement Ducharme, pregnant bride seventeen-year-old Hedie Rails learns through old diaries of the dark side of the Ducharme legacy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGE

Gaines, Ernest J.

Summary: Story of a black lady born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, freed at the end of the Civil War, who lives for one-hundred more years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GAI

Janes, J. Robert (Joseph Robert)

Summary: "Occupied France, December 1942. Seven days before Christmas, Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the French Surete Nationale and his partner Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo are dispatched to a village in Provence to investigate what appears to be a "local" murder. An attractive, well-dressed woman lies dead on a hillside, an iron-tipped bolt through her heart. Was it a crime of passion?" "The tight-lipped...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAN

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia.

Summary: It is 1916 and the Hunters, their friends and their servants are settling down to the business of war. As conscription reaches into every household, Britain turns out men and shells in industrial numbers from army camps and munitions factories up and down the land. Bobby, the second Hunter son, gains his wings and joins his brother in France. Ethel, the under housemaid, embarks on a quest and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Harrod-Eagles 2016

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

Summary: Set against the events of 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, the Hunter family, their servants, their neighbors, and the denizens of the once-tranquil village of Northcote, England, all must deal with the harsh realities of a violent and rapidly changing world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

Summary: "1919: The war is over, but peace is yet to come. As men are demobbed, women must give up positions that gave them freedom. Edward is given an important job at the Peace Conference in Paris, but it means more lonely months away from Beattie and his hoped-for reconciliation. Fred's unit is sent to the Rhine, and Cook feels a guilty relief that her uprooting has been postponed. Laura's friend...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

Summary: The year is 1915, and the war is raging on, in this second book in the new series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. The series is an epic family drama set against the evocative backdrop of World War I, with a book a year for each year of the war. Set against the real events of 1915, this is a rich and wonderfully depicted drama featuring the Hunter family and their servants.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2015

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Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

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Summary: England, 1903. Giles, the Earl of Stainton, has fled from his stifling duties to resume his research in Egypt, leaving behind his wife Kitty, and his infant son. Kitty, still reeling from Giles' sudden departure, struggles to keep spirits high in the castle and establish herself as the true mistress of the house, an impossible task given how many secrets the inhabitants are hiding from her......

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2023

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Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

Summary: 1901. When The Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, the eldest son of the noble Tallant family must step forward to replace him as the head of the family. But Giles has avoided the Castle and his stifling relatives for years, deciding instead to forge his own path away from the spotlight. Now, he must put aside his ambitions and honour his duty to the family. With their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

Summary: In 1918 the Great War has taken so much from so many and it threatens to take even more still from the Hunters, their friends and their servants. Edward, in a bid to run away from problems at home, decides not to resist conscription and ends up at the Front. Sadie's hopes for love are unrequited, and Laura has to flee Artemis House when it is shelled and she finds herself in London driving an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Barnes, Julian

Summary: "From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Barnes, Julian

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Summary: "A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin,hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Barnes, Julian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

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