Hannah, Kristin
Summary: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: New York, 1898. Three generations of women in one family must reckon with the choices they have made and their hopes for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: When it's announced that 1958 will be the last year debutantes are to be presented at court, thousands of eager mothers and hopeful daughters flood the palace with letters seeking the year's most coveted invitation: a chance for their daughters to curtsey to the young Queen Elizabeth and officially come out into society. In an effort to appease her traditional mother, aspiring university...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: It's the 1960s in North Carolina, and Lorraine Delford has it all. Yet every time she looks through her father's telescope, she dreams of leaving it all behind to go to space. But when this darling girl-next-door gets pregnant, she's forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep women grounded. To hide their daughter's secret shame, the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KLIRivers, Francine
Summary: In 1875, Kathryn Walsh settles in frontier California. Moved by the oppression of local miners, she decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper, putting her in the spotlight of Calvada's most powerful men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOJohnson, Sadeqa
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHSteel, Danielle
Summary: Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there, poised to fulfill their late father's distinguished legacy. Fresh out of nursing school with a passion and a born gift for helping others, both Audrey and her friend, Lizzie, suddenly find their nation on the brink of war. Driven to do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEAdams, Hope
Summary: "Nearly two hundred condemned women on board a sailing ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. London, 1841. One hundred eighty Englishwomen file aboard the Rajah, embarking on a three-month voyage to the other side of the world. They're daughters, sisters, mothers-and convicts. Transported for petty crimes. Except one of them has a deadly secret, and will do anything to flee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AdamsSteel, Danielle
Summary: Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Driven to do whatever she can to serve, Audrey and her friend enlist in the Army and embark on a new adventure as flight nurses.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC STEWingate, Lisa
Summary: "Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. On March 3, 1913, a glorious march commences, but negligent police allow vast crowds of belligerent men to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHIFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: It is 1952, and nearly all the girls Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys, she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League. When Bertha's father is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FINFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: It is 1952, and nearly all the girls Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys, she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League. When Bertha's father is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINWillig, Lauren
Summary: Aspiring archaeologist Betsy Hayes finds herself in the heart of two often-overlooked wars in history: the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish-American War, finding love and friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILJoshi, Alka
Summary: Immersed in her exciting perfume work, Radha hears that her unacknowledged son is coming to Paris to find her, which could upset her career and threaten to destroy a vulnerable marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOSMoore, H. B. (Heather Brown)
Summary: "Based on the true story of the free-spirited daughter of Queen Victoria. As a young woman, Princess Louise is considered the most beautiful and talented daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She is also strong-willed and resists following the queen's rigid rules and strict protocols for a princess. After her father's untimely death, Louise's life is upended by the inconsolable grief of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOOGreeley, Molly
Summary: Charlotte Collins is the respectable wife of a vicar. Then she makes the acquaintance of Mr. Travis, a local farmer and tenant of Lady Catherine, who makes her feel appreciated, heard, and seen. With her sensible nature confronted, and her own future about to take a turn, Charlotte must now question the role of love and passion in a woman's life, and whether they truly matter for a clergyman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREMessud, Claire
Summary: Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the Pieds-Noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state--separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This novel is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC MESRader-Day, Lori
Summary: "Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House--the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie--in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca's Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from the Blitz. Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: Janice is a collector of stories. When she starts cleaning for elderly Mrs. B, she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice doesn't have a story, at least not one she can share.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023