Payton, Brian

Summary: "A gripping tale of survival and an epic love story set amid a barren and starkly beautiful landscape during one of the least-known events of World War I, the Japanese occupation of Alaska's Aleutian Islands."--Container.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Pub. 2014

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Paton Walsh, Jill

Summary: Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set during the Blitz in 1940 London finds Lord Peter conducting secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet, caring for the family, is shocked by the murder of a young Land Girl.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2003

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Peyton, Tracey Rose

Summary: A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners. On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys--as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself--have decided to turn around the farm's bleak financial prospects...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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Alston, Bria

Summary: Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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Borman, Tracy

Summary: "At the end of The King's Witch, the first book in Tracy Borman's Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges was pregnant with the child of her dead lover, Thomas Wintour, executed for his role as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Now, in The Devil's Slave, Frances is compelled to return to the dissolute and dangerous court where she has been suspected of witchcraft. Catholics have gone...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019

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Hatton, Lindsay

Summary: A novel set around the creation of the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium and the last days of Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" follows the 1940 arrival of fifteen-year-old artist Margot Fiske and her father, who embarks on a controversial project.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016

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Franklin, Ariana.

Summary: Ordered by Henry II to establish the possible role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the poisoning death of Henry's mistress, a reluctant Adelia Aguilar joins forces with her infant daughter's father, the Bishop of St. Albans, during the investigation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2008

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Bayron, Kalynn

Summary: London, 1885. Gabriel Utterson, a 17-year-old law clerk, has returned to London for the first time since his life-- and that of his dearest friend, Henry Jekyll--was derailed by a scandal that led to his and Henry's expulsion from the London Medical School. Whispers about the true nature of Gabriel and Henry's relationship have followed the boys for two years, and now Gabriel has a chance to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023

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Franklin, Ariana

Summary: Allie, the daughter of Adelia Aguilar and a skilled healer with her mother's knowledge of anatomy and sleuthing, is dispatched to the Cambridgeshire village of Ely, where her courtship with a young aristocrat is complicated by her investigation into the disappearances of several local girls.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Paxson, Diana L.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007

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Lawton, John

Summary: England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The habits of the war baby youth-sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-are driving the old guard mad, and when a scandal reminiscent of the infamous Profumo affair rocks London, they fight back.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006

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Lawton, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2003

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Lawton, John

Summary: In 1938, with Europe on the brink of war, Frederick Troy, recently promoted to Scotland Yards Murder Squad, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian enemy aliens, but as the bombs begin to fall on London, he finds himself investigating a series of murdered rabbis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press Books 2008

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Lawton, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995

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Lawton, John

Summary: A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physist Karel Szabo, who is recruited by the Americans to help build the atomic bomb.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010

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Borman, Tracy

Summary: In March of 1603, as she helps to nurse the dying Queen Elizabeth of England, Frances Gorges dreams of her parents' country estate, where she learned to use flowers and herbs to become a much-loved healer. When King James of Scotlant succeeds to the throne Frances is only too happy to stay at home. His court may be shockingly decadent, but his intolerant Puritanism see witchcraft in many of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018

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Aston, Elizabeth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2003

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Dalton, Trent

Summary: "Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer whom shebelieves cursed her family. Accompanying her are the most unlikely traveling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a Japanese...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Franklin, Ariana.

Summary: In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art of Death, to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer's identity ... and whether he is stalking the princess or Adelia herself.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010

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Franklin, Ariana.

Summary: 1176, King Henry II's daughter is set to marry the king of Sicily. But when several wedding guests are murdered during the procession, Adelia must uncover who is behind the killings and who is the killer's real target.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

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Franklin, Ariana.

Summary: When the bodies of two people are discovered in the remains of an arson fire that destroyed Glastonbury Abbey, Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, is ordered by Henry II to determine if one of the sets of bones belongs to the legendary Celtic savior Arthur.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009

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