Johnson, Jane
Summary: A volume of seventeenth-century embroidery patterns that also contains faint diary entries brings together the lives of two women of different eras--Cat Tregenna, kidnapped by Muslim pirates in 1625, and Julia Lovat, a modern-day woman out to authenticate Cat's story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION JohnsonHumphreys, Helen
Summary: A young woman gardner Gwen Davis flees to the Devon countryside where she will be in charge of a Land Army group of young girls who are to plant food crops on a country estate. At the estate along with the girls a regiment of Canadian soldiers live and form friendships, etc. Gwen comes to know herself and others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUMBeauman, Sally.
Summary: "Before the summer is over, a catastrophic event changes the life of three young sisters in 1967 England"--Provided by the publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEAMcMahon, Katharine.
Summary: The daughter of an eccentric chemist, young Emilie Selden is a scientist in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishment, until an encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home and her work.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMBeauman, Sally.
Summary: "Before the summer is over, a catastrophic event changes the life of three young sisters in 1967 England"--Provided by the publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEADunn, Carola.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNRiley, Lucinda.
Summary: "From #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an epic story of family secrets, love, and betrayal set in Imperial India, a magnificent English country house in the 1920s, and that same house today"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILGreeley, Molly
Summary: Charlotte Collins, née Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford's vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the lectures of her awkward husband and his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Intelligent, pragmatic, and anxious to escape the shame of spinsterhood, Charlotte chose this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GREMaxwell, Cathy
Summary: Ten years after their brief romance ended in betrayal, a chance encounter between actress Kate Addison and Brandon Balfour, the leading member of the exclusive bachelor's club, the Logical Men's Society, revives their feelings for one another.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXGleeson, Janet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLEKing, Laurie R.
Summary: August 1923. All is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex as Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. But the peace quickly disappears as out of the past comes Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the couple a lovely inlaid box with a tattered roll of stained papyrus inside. The evening following...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINOtoo, Sharon Dodua
Summary: "A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OTOMcKinney, L. L. (Leatrice L.)
Summary: "In this empowering Black queer romance reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, Jane Eyre, the new governess at Thornfield Hall discovers her cruel employer has locked away his wife as revenge for withholding her inheritance and, as his dark plan unfolds, must find a way to save this woman she's come to love"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCKPerry, Anne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERPerry, Anne.
Summary: The Dreghorn family reunion in the Lake District of England is shattered by what appears to be an accidental death. Henry Rathbone, distinguished mathematician and inventor from Perry's William Monk series, is summoned to help in the role of amateur investigator.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PERBowen, Rhys
Summary: "London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks's world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie's beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BOWGleeson, Janet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLETaylor, Andrew
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Publisher / Publication Date: Theia 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYQuick, Amanda
Summary: Believing her four young orphan charges to be in mortal danger, tutor Concordia Glade places their safety in the hands of private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells, who endeavors to protect them from a notorious crime lord.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUIAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: Mr. Wickstead has died under a tree limb. The villagers are certain that his death had to do with a treasure he dug up last spring. But why was he in the wood on a frigid night? And what of the claw marks on the limb? And what was that treasure? As per usual, the town's animals know more than the Big Folk. And only Pickles, Wickstead's fox terrier, knows exactly what happened. It's up to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALBAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: 1912. The peace of the Lake District is interrupted by the noisy test flights of a new flying machine: the hydroplane-- and Beatrix's friend Grace is receiving anonymous letters that threaten her good name and her plans to marry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Mary Russell is used to dark secrets--her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart: the couple's longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell's faith and affection are suddenly shattered...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AZZHand, Cynthia
Summary: Refusing a job with the Society for the Relocation of Wayward Spirits, Jane Eyre heads to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for Mr. Rochester.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018