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Summary: "In 1914, Daisy lives in the quiet New Zealand valley where her family has farmed for generations. A cherished only child with an adored older cousin, and surrounded by a sprawling extended family, her world seems a warm and safe one. But the Great War is casting its long shadow over New Zealand. Daisy watches in growing fear as more and more of the men leave to fight in Europe, and the War...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Createspace 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARGodwin, Parke.
Summary: The story of King Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon ruler of the English and his 20-year romance with Edith, his common-law wife. On being crowned he is forced to marry another, but it is Edith who is by his side when he goes to his death, fighting the Normans at the Battle of Hastings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODNunn, Kayte
Summary: "1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge. 2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Nunn 2020Phillips, Jayne Anne
Summary: "In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, eleven-year-old ConaLee and her mother arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. They're delivered to the hospital's entrance by Papa--an abusive veteran who forces himself into their lives--after ConaLee's mother, who hasn't spoken in a year, grows even more withdrawn. Before he departs, Papa assigns them new identities and demands...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: "1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fearat their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/ Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: After the death of her father leaves her alone in the world, Eliza is offered a position as a governess at Gaudlin Hall in Norfolk. Arriving at Thorpe station she is almost pushed beneath a train but is saved by two villagers who, although initially friendly, become quiet and uneasy when she mentions the position she has accepted. Arriving at Gaudlin, Eliza meets the two children in her care,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYBoyne, John
Summary: "This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One with his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYPaige, Robin.
Summary: Kathryn Ardleigh tries to adapt to high-society life with her newly lorded husband, Charles, and she discovers a new friend in Jennie Churchill, who is embroiled in a scandal involving claims that Jack the Ripper is the father of her son, the future leader Winston Churchill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2000
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Summary: Virgil Moody vows to never be like his father, a slaveowner. He moves from Savannah to New Orleans and takes Annie with him. While he comes to think of her as his wife, she reminds him they'll never be equal. When their son Lucas is taken from them, Moody will travel through a country on the brink of civil war searching for Lucas, while trying to reconcile his past sins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Canada 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAAshford, Lindsay Jayne.
Summary: Twenty-six years have passed since the death of Jane Austen. Armed with a lock of Austen's hair as perhaps her best clue, Anne Sharp, former governess to the Austen family and Jane's close friend, has decided at least to tell her story -- a story of family intrigues, shocking secrets, forbidden loves, and maybe even murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHPaige, Robin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAIPaige, Robin.
Summary: At the request of King Edward, Lord Charles Sheridan and his American wife, Kate, become embroiled in a sensitive mystery surrounding the murder of a servant at historic Glamis Castle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAIGingrich, Newt.
Summary: A novel of the darkest days of the American Revolution follows George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Jonathan Van Dorn, a private in Washington's army, during the days surrounding Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on December 25, 1776.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GINGingrich, Newt.
Summary: After two bestselling historical series re-envisioning the Civil War and World War II Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War and the birth of the United States of America. Their story follows three men with three very different roles to play in history: General George Washington Thomas Paine and Jonathan Van Dorn a private in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GINMcKinney, L. L. (Leatrice L.)
Summary: "In this empowering Black queer romance reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, Jane Eyre, the new governess at Thornfield Hall discovers her cruel employer has locked away his wife as revenge for withholding her inheritance and, as his dark plan unfolds, must find a way to save this woman she's come to love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCKFaye, Lyndsay
Summary: "Beloved adventuress Irene Adler teams up with her former adversary in a near-deadly inquiry into a room full of eerily stopped grandfather clocks. Learn of the case that cemented the lasting friendship between Holmes and Inspector Lestrade, and of the tragic crime which haunted the Yarder into joining the police force. And witness Stanley Hopkins's first meeting with the remote logician he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: In 1846 New York six months after the formation of the NYPD, officer Timothy Wilde investigates a ring of "blackbirders" who kidnap free people of color in the North and sell them to Southern plantations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books, G. P. Putnams Sons 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAYDundee, Wayne D.
Summary: "Wayne Dundee's straight-shootin', hard-ridin' fan favorite is back in the saddle again, hell bent for leather on getting justice. Arriving on horseback at a railroad watering station where he means to briefly rest and hopefully find some refreshment before moving on, Lone McGantry tangles with a pair of rowdy cowboys who are up to no good. No sooner is that resolved than a train arrives after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "It's Maine, 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan is on the rise. Davy and Jo Michaud have been recently orphaned. Taken in by a distant relative-a famous aviator-they are now working with a group of stunt pilots who spend their time wing walking, leaping from plane to plane, and flying through fireworks! But though the stunts are dangerous, the real threat is building behind the scenes. The KKK is on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHIShreve, Anita
Summary: "In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHRCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Shreve 2017Faye, Lyndsay
Summary: "The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City and those who want her dead, she has her sights set on Oregon: a distant frontier that seems the end of the line."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnams Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAYCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Faye 2019Faye, Lyndsay.
Summary: Reluctantly embroiled in a 1840s dispute between a corrupt Tammany Hall leader and an arsonist with an agenda, Copper Star Timothy Wilde finds his investigation challenged by his brother's decision to run for public office.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books, Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAYFaye, Lyndsay.
Summary: New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAYSpringer, Nancy
Summary: "Rhaskos works in the stables. Worth less than a donkey, much less than a horse. But Rhaskos is clever and talented, and beloved of his mother-who has been forced away from her son but is willing to do anything for him. Melisto is a girl. Wealthy, privileged, intended for a stifling marriage and dangerous childbirth. But first she is to spend a season serving Artemis, goddess of the hunt, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021