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Adventure stories Audiobooks England England Social life and customs 18th century Fiction England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Fantasy fiction London (England) Fiction Man-woman relationships England Yorkshire Fiction Mothers and sons Fiction Yorkshire (England) FictionGregory, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Anna Frith tells the story of her remote English village, Eyam, which was infected by the plague in 1666 and where, persuaded by their vicar, the townspeople decided to quarantine themselves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROGoodman, Alison
Summary: In April 1812, as she is preparing for her debut presentation to Queen Charlotte, Lady Helen Wrexhall finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy reaching to the very top of society, and learns the truth about her mother, who died ten years ago.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GOODickens, Charles
Summary: The inhabitants of two cities--including a doctor, his devoted daughter, the young French aristocrat she loves, and their English friend--are swept into the tide of the French Revolution.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1986
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FICTION DickensFollett, Ken.
Summary: It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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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 FOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLBlake, Sarah
Summary: In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women and of two countries torn apart by war.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Ausio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLACornwell, Bernard.
Summary: The Danes of East Anglia and the Vikings of Northumbria are plotting the conquest of all Britain. When King Alfred's daughter pleads with Uhtred for help, he cannot refuse her request. In a desperate gamble, he takes command of a demoralized Mercian army, leading them in an unforgettable battle on a blood-soaked field beside the Thames.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CORFollett, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his experiences hanging out with the Abominable Snowman. Terence Moongrove's residence has become the target of New Age cosmologists. And pint-sized terrier Freddie de la Hay is being recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring" -- from publisher's web site.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction McCall-Smith 2011Doctorow, E. L.
Summary: A tale inspired by a true story finds the blind Homer Collyer closeted within a once-grand Fifth Avenue mansion with his damaged brother and remembering a life marked by colorful characters, political events, and technological achievements.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOCColfer, Eoin.
Summary: When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALCMichaels, Barbara
Summary: An American woman on a dream-fulfilling tour of ancient gardens in England finds herself pulled into a dense labyrinth of mystery, witchcraft, and murder.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MICAusten, Jane
Summary: As a young, beautiful, and wealthy woman, Emma decides to introduce Harriet Smith to society to find a husband. Emma entangles herself in a web in which everythings ends up precisely as it began.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Austen 2006Brontë, Emily
Summary: When Mr. Earnshaw brings a black-haired foundling child into his home on the Yorkshire moors, he little imagines the dramatic events which will follow. The passionate relationship between Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling, Heathcliff, is a story of love, hate, pity and retribution, the effects of which reverberate throughout the succeeding generations --Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2006
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Summary: It isn't the easiest way to commit suicide. Marie Tennent seems simply to have curled into a fetal position in the freezing snow and remained there until her body was frozen over. And hers is not the only death the police have to contend with--not after the discovery of a baby in the wreckage of an old World War II bomber, and the body of a man dumped by the roadside. Could the past be the only...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOOAusten, Jane
Summary: The classic story of class-conscious eighteenth-century England and the romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. The clash between opinionated Elizabeth and proud Mr. Darcy is set against a backdrop of wonderful minor characters and the social system in which they all live.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSJacobson, Jennifer
Summary: Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JACBrontë, Emily
Summary: Against a background of English moors in the 19th century, the lives of two families become intertwined through marriage, passion, and the dominating force of a man called Heathcliff.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1981
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Bronte 1981Fowler, Christopher.
Summary: When a bomb explodes in the office of London's most unusual police unit, it claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant. As his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity, he finds his investigation taking him back to the day the detectives first met as young men in 1940.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWBrown, Dan
Summary: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROAirth, Rennie
Summary: It's 1921 when the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife, and two staff are found in a manor house in Surrey. The police have put the murders down to a violent robbery, but Detective Inspector Madden from Scotland Yard has his own suspicions. In the meantime, the killer is plotting his second strike.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Clipper Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AIRBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: Linnet, Tessa, India and Evan: four remarkable women. Three generations of Hartes. One indomitable family whose loyalty binds them together and whose enemies want to tear them apart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRAGranger, Ann.
Summary: The last time Markby visited the decaying village of Lower Stovey, he was a rookie detective baffled by a serial rapist who terrorized the community two decades ago. Now, he hopes to crack this cold case wide open using recently discovered evidence from both the past and the present. But as locals become increasingly tight-lipped and community cooperation grinds to a halt, he fears the elusive...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2007