Marsh, Sarah
Summary: "Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARLansdale, Joe R.
Summary: On the run after an infamous landowner murders his father, Willie becomes an expert marksman before turning Buffalo Soldier, befriending Wild Bill Hickok and earning the nickname "Deadwood Dick."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANGarwood, W. R. (William R.)
Summary: "Texas Ranger John Ringold rides into Tombstone on detached service. His mission - to go undercover as John Ringo and stamp out the gangs ravaging Wells Fargo in a string of unsolved robberies and murder. Ringo tackles the desperate job of running down the night-riding bandits, headed by the mysterious robber chieftan "Saguro," only to find himself hurled into a head-on confrontation with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here ... A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents' Dublin home,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Stoker 2019Iggulden, Conn.
Summary: The three surviving sons of Genghis Khan vie for the crown while striving to protect their father's empire and establish independent legacies, agendas marked by efforts to build a city in the wilderness, conquer Southern China and tame the steppes of Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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Summary: Years before either becomes a literary legend, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde must overcome their disdain for one another to battle the Black Bishop, a mysterious madman wielding supernatural forces to bend the British Empire to his will. With the help of a European vampire expert, a spirited actress and an American businessman, our heroes fight werewolves, vampires and the chains of Victorian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flame Tree Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOPMeek, James
Summary: "Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman is fleeing an odious arranged marriage, a Scottish proctor is returning home to Avignon and a handsome young ploughman in search of adventure is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. Coming in their direction from across the Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books 2020
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Summary: "In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, calling Isabel "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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Summary: Second in a series on the mighty Mongol conqueror who sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule. In this volume, he sets his sights on Yenking (modern day Beijing, China). Follows "Genghis : birth of an empire" ; continued by "Genghis : bones of the hills."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGGMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Traces the rich and varied friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Called to the peaceful wooded churchyard of St-John's-at-Hampstead, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose faces one of the most audacious and unusual murders of his career. The body of the church's organist is found in an opened grave, together with a photograph of a manor house and a cryptic note. The image leads Archie to Cambridge, where the crisp autumn air has brought bustling life to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPSFlower, Amanda
Summary: December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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Summary: "Arm yourself against my dawn, which may at any moment cast you and Harry into obscurity, Alice James writes her brother William in 1891. In Judith Hooper's magnificent book, zingers such as this fly back and forth between the endlessly articulate and letter-writing Jameses, all of whom are geniuses at gossiping. And the James family did, in fact, know everyone intellectually important on both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2015
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Summary: 1901. Karl Werthen and his colleague, renowned criminologist Dr Hanns Gross, are investigating a bizarre series of murders in the small Austrian town of Graz. Meanwhile, back in Vienna, Karl's wife Berthe is looking into what seems to be a fraudulent breeding scheme involving the prized Lipizzaner horses. Could the two investigations be connected?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONShapiro, Barbara A.
Summary: Young artist Clair Roth, who reproduces famous works of art for an online retailer, is drawn in to the world of art forgery when she is persuaded to forge a Degas masterpiece for the Gardner Museum to replace a stolen painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012
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Summary: "By Gaslight is a deeply atmospheric, haunting novel about the unending quest that has shaped a man's life. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most notorious detective of all time, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead on the fabled con Edward Shade. William's father died without ever finding Shade, but William is determined to drag...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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Summary: "Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things. After all, they found each other and became best friends--even though their parents are business rivals. They also found hidden boxes of secret letters, which led them to unravel mysteries about kids from the 1970s. But when they started Mystery Solvers Inc., they didn't expect to be asked to find a ghost. Ree recruits them to investigate a series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: In Knob Creek, Kentucky, in 1816, seven-year-old Abe Lincoln falls into a creek and is rescued by his best friend, Austin Gollaher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOPAgitogi, Akumi
Summary: A Cinderella-inspired, slow-burn historical romance with a paranormal twist set in Taisho-era Japan! A browbeaten and mistreated daughter is cast out of her home and sent to audition as a bridal candidate for the heir to one of the most powerful families in the land... For failing to inherit the boon of unusual power that is the Saimori birthright and bringing shame to the family name,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Enix Manga 2023
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Summary: Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband while recovering from the birth of a stillborn child. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
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Summary: Lily meets a crow with a broken wing, so she and Maggie Rose take the crow home to Mom. But when the crow starts to become too tame, some unexpected problems arise. It's Lily to the rescue!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starscape 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC CAMSchwartz, Leanne
Summary: "Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her beauty-obsessed kingdom that she's too useful to be sacrificed. Their god blessed their island Soladisa as a haven for his followers, but to keep the devil at bay, the church sends a child sacrifice to hell's entrance every season--often poor or plain girls just like Alesta. With a head full of ideas for inventions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street YA 2024
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway 2012