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Summary: "In the late summer of 1274, King Edward has finally been anointed England's ruler. His queen contemplates a pilgrimage in gratitude for their safe return from Outremer, a journey that will include a stay at Tyndal Priory. Envoys are sent to confirm that everything will be suitable for the king's wife, and Prioress Eleanor nervously awaits them, knowing that regal visits bring expense along...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYRoyal, Priscilla.
Summary: Recently appointed prioress Eleanor of Wynethorpe gets more than she had bargained for when she takes over the Order of Fontevraud after a monk is found murdered and Brother Thomas arrives to investigate the Order's shaky finances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYMcCartney, Jenny
Summary: A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to terms with his father's sudden death, and the attack on his harmless best friend Titch, Jacky is forced to face the bullies who still menace a city scarred by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 4th Estate 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCCOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORALecoat, Jenny
Summary: After fleeing Vienna, Hedy Bercu, a Jewish woman living on the island of Jersey, is forced to hide in plain sight during the German occupation and to survive must depend on her own courage, her community, and a German soldier she befriends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LECAshcroft, Jenny
Summary: "United by love. Separated by war. Will they find their way back to each other? Find out in Jenny Ashcroft's historical romance Meet Me in Bombay"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHAshcroft, Jenny
Summary: "Jenny Ashcroft's Under the Golden Sun is a captivating World War II historical love story set against the raw beauty of Australia. Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a life change when she reads the want ad in the newspaper for a companion needed to escort a young orphaned child to Australia. There are so many reasons she should ignore the advertisement-the war, those treacherous winter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ASHCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHZhang, Jenny
Summary: "Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZHA1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZHAWhite, Jenny B. (Jenny Barbara)
Summary: "The naked body of an Englishwoman washes up in Ottoman Istanbul wearing a pendant with the sultan's seal. This debut novel captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The murder of an English governess for the royal harem stirs up a crisis at the palace and at the British embassy. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHILecoat, Jenny
Summary: After fleeing Vienna, Hedy Bercu, a Jewish woman living on the island of Jersey, is forced to hide in plain sight during the German occupation and to survive must depend on her own courage, her community, and a German soldier she befriends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2021