Filter By Subjects
France Social life and customs 20th century Fiction Girls Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Mothers Fiction Prisoners of war Fiction Search and rescue operations Fiction Singers Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction Voyages and travels Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France FictionFilter By Subjects
France Social life and customs 20th century Fiction Girls Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Mothers Fiction Prisoners of war Fiction Search and rescue operations Fiction Singers Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction Voyages and travels Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France FictionJanes, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANJones, Robert
Summary: "A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence"-- Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONWaller, Robert James
Summary: Carlisle, an enigmatic drifter, has wandered from California to South Carolina and is headed back west when he happens on the small South Dakota town of Salamander. In the local diner, he meets one woman, the unhappily married Gally Deveraux, and then becomes entranced by another, ethereal outsider Susanna Benteen, whom he catches sight of one night. Carlisle decides to make his home in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WALJanes, 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
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Janes 2018Jakes, John
Summary: The second volume in The Kent Family Chronicles, in which young Philip Kent, having escaped the murderous intentions of his half-brother in France, becomes caught up in the valor and turmoil of the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1978
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKDe Robertis, Carolina
Summary: "February 1913. Seventeen-year-old Leda, clutching a suitcase and her father's cherished violin, leaves her small Italian village for a new home (and husband) halfway across the world in Argentina. Upon her arrival in Buenos Aires, Leda is shocked to find that her bridegroom has been killed. Unable to fathom the idea of returning home, she remains in this unfamiliar city, living in a commune,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DERDe Robertis, Carolina
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes a mystical and heartening tale about seeking justice and the power of memory In his modest home at the edge of town, the former President of a Latin American country receives a journalist in his iconic gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE RJakes, John
Summary: A novel of two families during twenty turbulent, troubled years that culminate in the shattering Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKRich, Roberta
Summary: "A sweeping, New York-set historical novel following a Jewish cigarette girl who moonlights as a spy and attempts to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Jakes, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Jakes, John
Summary: Determined to secure entry into the elite social circles of late nineteenth-century Rhode Island, Sam Driver enlists the help of a pair of social gadflies but finds his efforts complicated by his daughter's romance with an impoverished young Irishman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Books 1976
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
Summary: Recounts the adventures of two unforgettable families--the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina--in a land ripped apart by the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
Summary: From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book World") comes a novel that spans decades and generations--from the American Revolution through the downfall of the Confederacy--in Jakes's most ambitious work yet.From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJacks, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJiles, Paulette
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JILJiles, Paulette
Summary: The story of two different families, headed by a former slave and by a Quaker, who settle in Texas during the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILSaeed, Jamal
Summary: "Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAERobards, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 0000
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBRobards, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Robards 2020Jiles, Paulette
Summary: "Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. John's beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered. Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction JilesJiles, Paulette
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JILJiles, Paulette
Summary: "In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020