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Summary: Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DOWJenner, Natalie
Summary: ""Fans of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JENBayliss, Jenny
Summary: "When it comes to relationships, thirty-four-year-old Kate Turner is ready to say 'Bah, humbug.' The sleepy town of Blexford, England, isn't exactly brimming with prospects, and anyway, Kate's found fulfillment in her career as a designer, and in her delicious side job baking for her old friend Matt's neighborhood café. But then her best friend signs her up for a dating agency that promises to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Holiday Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYPraag, Menna van.
Summary: "A magical debut about an enchanted house that offers refuge to women in their time of need Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her hometown of Cambridge, England, when she finds herself in front of a house she's never seen before, 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets her and invites her to stay, on the house's usual conditions: she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRAVincenzi, Penny.
Summary: "On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping the injured and hiding his young mistress; a bridegroom hopes to get to the church on time; a widow waiting to reunite with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2010
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Dams, Jeanne M.
Summary: When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to a country house weekend at a lovingly restored old mansion, they expect nothing more explosive than the Guy Fawkes fireworks. Having read every Agatha Christie ever written, Dorothy should have known better, but even she could not have anticipated the terror that is unleashed by an epic storm and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMDams, Jeanne M.
Summary: When her son is accused of theft, a charwoman turns for help to Dorothy Martin, the American wife of the constable of Sherebury. No sooner does Dorothy clear his name, than he is arrested again, this time for the murder of a housekeeper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMCushman, Karen.
Summary: The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CUSKing, Laurie R.
Summary: After a lengthy case in India, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are on the steamer Thomas Carlyle, bound for Japan. Though they're not the vacationing types, Russell is looking forward to a change of focus--not to mention the chance of traveling to a place Holmes has not visited before. The idea of the pair being on equal footing is enticing to a woman who often must race to catch up with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINHenry, Marguerite
Summary: Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England where, at last, Sham's majesty is recognized and he becomes the "Godolphin Arabian," ancestor of the most superior thoroughbred horses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HENGreen, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREPorter, Henry
Summary: The death of a former British head of intelligence triggers an all-out resistance movement led by the Bell Ringers against an out-of-control, security-obsessed state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC PORFielding, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEKing, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016