Willocks, Tim.
Summary: Carla, a French countess, enlists the aid of a German sword-for-hire when she travels from her home to Malta in search of the boy she gave up at birth twelve years ago, but they arrive just as the city is invaded by the Turks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWilliamson, Penelope.
Summary: A sprawling Western saga featuring Clementine Kennicutt, a well-to-do Boston woman. To escape her tyrannical father she elopes with Gus McQueen, a Montana rancher, only to fall in love with Zach, his brother. The time is the late 1800s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILFitzgerald, Penelope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITFitzgerald, Penelope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITLively, Penelope
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVDurst-Benning, Petra
Summary: Johanna, the oldest of the three Steinmann sisters, has successfully managed the family glassblowing business since her father's death, and her sister Marie's artistic gifts have made their wares unexpectedly famous. But now the livelihood of the town of Lauscha, Germany--known around the world as the "paradise of glass"--is in danger. The local glassworks is about to be sold, and rumor has it...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2015Durst-Benning, Petra
Summary: "Tempestuous and beautiful Wanda Miles, daughter of Ruth and Stephen Miles (or so she thinks), aspires to more than the life of a debutante, but the trouble is she doesn't know precisely what she wants. Then her aunt Marie, the family's renowned glassblower, arrives from Lauscha, Germany, and Wanda decides that learning about her ancestry may hold the key to her future. When Marie accidentally...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2015Mitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: 1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MITMitchell, David (David Stephen)
Summary: In 1799, the artificial island of Dejima lies in Nagasaki Harbor as Japan's outpost for the Dutch East Indies Company. There, Jacob de Zoet has come to make a fortune large enough to return to Holland and marry the woman he loves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010