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Summary: In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OSTLawhon, Ariel
Summary: "A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 0000
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Summary: "A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Summary: The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. By luck and circumstance Alice becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DJAChung, Eve J.
Summary: "A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUBryan, 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 BRYWest, Charles
Summary: "Orphaned in a massacre. Raised by Crow Indians. Destined to become a powerful hunter, a legendary scout, and a true American hero . . . As a widower with three young boys, Duncan Hunter dreamed of a new life for his sons in the heart of Washington Territory. But the journey was doomed from the start. Before reaching Hell Gate, their wagon train was attacked by Blackfoot Indians. Most of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WESRooney, Kathleen
Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOGear, Kathleen O'Neal
Summary: "A tale of trapped magic, a tyrant who wants to wield its power...and a young girl who could be the key to save a people."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gear 2020Peters, Elizabeth
Summary: The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PETJohnston, Terry C.
Summary: In the early 1800s, a Kentucky farm boy abandons the security of home, and his girlfriend, for a life of adventure. At 16, Titus Bass runs away to become a deckhand on a Mississippi flatboat, the first of many frontier escapades. But he tires of adventure and becomes a blacksmith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase, rose to prominence in the antebellum years and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Abraham Lincoln' s cabinet, while aspiring to even greater heights. Beautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase stepped into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2014Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "Kate Chase was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of Salmon P. Chase. Her father was Abraham Lincoln's secretary of the treasury, and he aspired to even greater heights. Kate stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father in Washington society and as a future presidential candidate. Her efforts were successful enough that The Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIAubray, Camille
Summary: Set in summer 1939 at the Côte d'Azur's Grand Hotel and inspired by true events, Annabel Faucon is drawn into the events and intrigue surrounding a fledgling film festival, visiting movie stars, and efforts to disrupt a Nazi communications system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC AUBHart, Emilia
Summary: I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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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 RILFollett, Ken
Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLDray, Stephanie.
Summary: Pledging allegiance to Emperor Augustus, Selene faces uncertainty among the imperial politics and religious persecution of Rome and must decide between her loyalty to the emperor or to Egypt and her birthright.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAMohamed, Nadifa
Summary: "Based on a true event, The Fortune Men tells the intimate, harrowing story of the last man in Britain to be sentenced to death. In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first, Mahmood believes he can ignore the fingers pointing his way; he may be a gambler and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOHHolleman, Emily
Summary: Reimagines the beginnings of Cleopatra's epic saga through the eyes of her younger sister. Reading-group guide available.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLJones, Dan
Summary: "1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting-and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France 'til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: Working at a local nursing home to help preserve Grace and Favor Cottage, former high society siblings Robert and Lily Brewster investigate the suspicious death of a patient despite a challenging number of suspects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUDray, Stephanie.
Summary: The daughter of Cleopatra, Princess Selene, struggles to survive amidst political and romantic intrigue after her parents are vanquished by Rome and she becomes the object of desire and obsession for the new and ruthless Caesar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011