Quinn, Julia
Summary: "In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours. Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent--not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "When an artist and a duke cross paths in the bustling London slums, an unlikely love story begins and their lives will be forever changed. Royal Academy painting student Lucy Coover quickly comes to the aid of the naked drunkard she stumbles upon one evening in the Shoreditch slums. If only she could banish his lovely form from her dreams as easily. Instead, she finds herself compelled to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOWBerry, Julie
Summary: The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BERHlad, Alan
Summary: "It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HLAMcNeal, Laura
Summary: "A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MCNBryan, J. G.
Summary: As seniors in high school during the late 70s in SoCal's San Fernando Valley, Douglas and his friends explore the city of Los Angeles, get stoned, tour the Manson murders locations, obsess over girls, and go to prom in powder blue tuxes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRYLarsen, Samantha
Summary: "1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LARScott, Caroline
Summary: "With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat... England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Stella Douglas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOBelfoure, Charles
Summary: "St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives a life of luxury and comfort, by the side of his beautiful but spiteful wife, Princess Lara. But when Dimitri is confronted by the death and destruction wrought by a pogrom, he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELEllis, Janet
Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD FIC ELLBurrowes, Grace
Summary: Ned Wentworth will be forever grateful to the family that plucked him from the streets and gave him a home, even though polite society still whispers years later about his questionable past. Precisely because of Ned's connections in low places, Lady Rosalind Kinwood approaches him to help her find a lady's maid who has disappeared. Rosalind is too opinionated--and too intelligent--and has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURJenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENLester, Natasha
Summary: "Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills-persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure-catch the attention of the U.S. government and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LesterBeauregard, Mark
Summary: "In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end. In despair, Melville takes his family for a vacation to his cousin's farm in the Berkshires, where he meets Nathaniel Hawthorne at a picnic--and his life turns upside down"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEARiley, Vanessa
Summary: "An English spy must follow his neglected wife through the streets of London as she investigates her sister's death with the aid of the Widow's Grace. Can they find common ground and learn to work together?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILCampbell, Karen
Summary: "Trapped in Tuscany as war rages along the Gothic Line, Vittoria Guidi doesn't understand where her allegiances should lie. With her Scots-Italian father or Fascist mother? With Mussolini, or her King? With the life she wants, or is told to live? As Germans occupy the mountains surrounding Barga and American Buffalo soldiers draw near, loyalties are tested and families torn apart. Frank Chapel,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Circus 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMWood, Laura (Laura Clare)
Summary: In 1933, seventeen-year-old Bea is invited to visit her bohemian uncle in Italy where she meets Ben, a brash young artist, who challenges her to create the perfect summer romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOMaxwell, Cathy
Summary: "Once there were three Irish sisters--Gwendolyn, Dara, and Elise--who had to fend for themselves when their gambler of a father disappeared, leaving them with an unscrupulous cousin. Dara hatches a daring plan: they gamble what little they own to finance a London season. Her goal: to use their looks and their wits to find a duke to marry for each sister! It seems her crazy plot might work when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAXQuinn, Julia
Summary: In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 2017
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Summary: "Pamela Binnings Ewen's newest novel reveals the story of Émilienne, once the most beautiful, sought-after woman in Paris during the Belle Époque, the era of peaceful years just before World War I. As a girl, Émilienne fights her way through poverty in Montmartre, drawn to the lights of Paris below. Soon, she stars at the Folies Bergère, mistress of kings and princes, known as the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWEEllis, Janet.
Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLFisher, Suzanne Woods
Summary: "On a hot day in 1737 in Rotterdam, Anna Konig reluctantly sets foot on a merchant ship that will carry her and her fellow Amish believers across the Atlantic to start a new life. As the only one in her community who can speak English, she feels compelled to go. But Anna is determined to complete this journey and return home. Ship's carpenter Bairn resents the somber people who fill the lower...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FISKleypas, Lisa
Summary: Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband. So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born. Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: "What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020