Jacks, Janie
Summary: Being a military family means always moving forward, rarely looking back--no matter what might happen in one's life. But when a letter arrives at the Jacks house only to remain unopened, Becky Jacks finds herself torn between the most uncurious mother on the planet and her own deep need to know what news the letter brings. On the other side of the world, a war rages in Vietnam, one her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACMcCauley, Terrence
Summary: At long last, U.S. Marshal Aaron Mackey and Deputy Billy Sunday will see crime baron James Grant and his kill-crazy cronies stand trial for the mayhem and suffering they unleashed on the people of Dover Station. But as Montana Territory's statehood is approaching, murdering devils like Grant can no longer be tolerated in positions of political power. Or can they? Montana's capital of Helena...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: "Silver Cloud, Montana. A mining town welcome to all seeking to make their fortune. And a place where a lawman has to watch his back before some hardcase empties his pistol into it. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead is escorting notorious outlaw John Hudson across the territory for trial when he's ambushed by a pack of Hudson's men anxious to rescue their partner from his custody. Halstead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCCaskie, Kathryn.
Summary: Elizabeth Royle siente que sus más profundas ilusiones se harán realidad al encontrarse cara a cara con el hombre con el que soñó. Su emoción no puede ser mayor: el joven parece arrancado de los más ocultos deseos de su mente. Aunque su matrimonio está muy cercano en su profusa imaginación, la realidad se impone en cuestión de segundos: los rumores de que el apuesto Leopold está prometido con...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titania Editores 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION CASChang, Janie
Summary: After being abandoned by her mother in 1908 Shanghai, a young Eurasian girl, Jialing, becomes the bondservant to the new owners of a grand estate until she befriends a young English girl who mysteriously disappears and forever changes her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: "China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than a hundred students, faculty, and staff must walk a thousand miles to the safety of China's western provinces, a journey marred by hunger, cold, and the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Chang 2020Chang, Janie
Summary: In 1918 France, in the final days of the First World War, Pauline Deng, a young Chinese woman escaping an arranged marriage, is taken in by secretive Camille Roussel and becomes bound to this woman forever when they are forced to make a terrible decision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Set in the Indian rebellions of 1763, this story tells of an angry Indian boy who joins the warriors who are headed to attack the English while still learning to deal with family relationships and his mother's ideas about peace instead of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: River Road Publications 2004
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Summary: Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother's listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday, William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape/Random House Audio 2013
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FordHarrison, Jamie
Summary: "It is New York, 1904, and Dulcy Remfrey, despite an idiosyncratic, traveling childhood, faces the predictable life of a woman of the time. All that changes when her eccentric father returns from his expedition to Africa without any of the proceeds from the sale of a gold mine. It seems he's lost his mind along with the money, and Dulcy's obsessive ex-fiance (and her father's business partner)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARO'Neill, Jamie.
Summary: In a story set against the backdrop of Dublin in 1915, two boys who meet at the local swimming hole plan to swim to an island in Dublin Bay the following Easter, but their plans coincide with the Easter uprising--a historic rebellion that changes their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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Summary: "Dorothy Moy channels her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. When her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FORLilac, Jamie
Summary: Beau Bellegarde, a second-born son, makes a deal: if he can turn Evie Clément, the unapproachable baker's daughter, into the winner of the Court Ball, making her the most desired bachelorette in Paris, he inherits the family fortune, but his target has plans of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LILFord, Jamie.
Summary: When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, a man embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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Summary: Molly befriends a war refugee from England named Emily Bennett, who struggles to overcome shyness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TRIKullab, Samya
Summary: "A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers - all to find safety in the West."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 971 KULQuinn, Kate
Summary: San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up--and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: In a fast-paced sequel to The Hellfire Club, Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington D.C., arrive in Los Angeles on their latest case, only to be pursued by sinister forces from Hollywood's stages to the newly founded Church of Scientology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tapper 2021Tapper, Jake
Summary: Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor died mysteriously, Charlie is struggling to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, DC, alongside his young wife Margaret, a zoologist with ambitions of her own. But when Charlie discovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of governance, he has to fight not only for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018