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Books and reading Fiction Duke of York Richard 1472-1483 Fiction Great Britain Great Britain History Edward IV, 1461-1483 Fiction Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Fiction Great Britain History Richard III, 1483-1485 Fiction Great Britain History Wars of the Roses, 1455-1485 Fiction III, King of England Richard 1452-1485 Fiction World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction Young adult fictionHannah, Kristin
Summary: Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods. The crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli, like so many of her neighbors, must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HANFollett, Ken.
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families-- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Follett, Ken.
Summary: Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, Welsh--enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLMariconda, Barbara.
Summary: "Set during the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, sixteen-year-old Drina yearns to dance flamenco. When she dances, she forgets who she is. She forgets what seems to be her legacy: I am nothing. I belong nowhere. Why does her mother forbid her to dance, the very thing that makes her feel alive? She wonders about the secrets her mother holds, about the rumored life she had before Drina was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MARRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Peace Conference convenes, there historic luminaries invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSGregory, Philippa.
Summary: Gregory weaves the second installment of the Cousins' War trilogy that follows Lady Margaret Beaufort as she desperately tries to ensure her son Henry VII becomes the rightful heir to the throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREGregory, Philippa.
Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREWein, Elizabeth.
Summary: Two young women from totally different backgrounds are thrown together during World War II, one a working-class girl from Manchester, the other a Scottish aristocrat, one a pilot, the other a wireless operator. Yet whenever their paths cross, they complement each other perfectly and before long become devoted friends. But then a vital mission goes wrong, and one of the friends has to bail out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC WEIGregory, Philippa.
Summary: "Follows Lady Margaret Beaufort as she desperately tries to ensure her son Henry VII becomes the rightful heir to the throne" -- from publisher's web site.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREZusak, Markus.
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ZUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC ZUSIturbe, Antonio
Summary: "Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ITUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction ItuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC ITUHesse, Monica
Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Bâtard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poitiers and French King John II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Abby and Jonah are at home with Jonah's friends and their fairy friend, Maryrose, when they receive a visit from another fairy--a famous one. It's Tinkerbell! She's come to their window with none other than Peter Pan. It's exciting at first--but when Peter Pan announces that he needs new Lost Boys, he whisks away Jonah and Jonah's friends. It's up to Abby (and Maryrose) to follow them all into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MLYBradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Summary: A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC BRAIggulden, Conn.
Summary: Winter 1461--Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Yet in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IGGAckerman, Sara
Summary: In the dizzying aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Daisy enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the WARDs guide pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. But not everyone thinks the women are up to the job. With America's future on the line, Daisy is determined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACKFollett, Ken.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLAllende, Isabel
Summary: Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALLLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LYOBerry, Steve
Summary: Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful day - April 30, 1945 - and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERAllende, Isabel
Summary: "In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: A shy girl with no family, Maria has landed in the sewing room of the royal household. Soon she catches the eye of the Prince of Wales. But her life takes a darker turn, and soon all she has left is a fantastical story about her time in the palace. Decades later, Caroline discovers a beautiful quilt in her mother's attic with a mysterious message embroidered into its lining. She embarks on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TRELyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023