Polydoros, Aden
Summary: Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can't bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can use kishuf, an ancient and profane magic to create a golem in her image. A Nazi killer, to avenge her death. When Vera awakens, she can feel her violent purpose thrumming within her. But she can also feel glimpses of a human life lived, of stolen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POLWest, Catherine Adel
Summary: Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. News spreads of the Freedom...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESAnam, Tahmima
Summary: As she plans a party for her son and daughter, Rehana Haque's life will be transformed in a story of one family caught in the middle of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, as they face changes and decisions that will have a profound impact on their lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANAAdimi, Kaouther
Summary: "Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library. He more than fulfilled its motto 'by the young, for the young', discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937. His entire archive was twice destroyed by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIHoem, Edvard
Summary: "The year is 1874. Nesje is a recent widower with a young son, working as a haymaker on an estate in the town of Molde and steadily clearing his own small holding. Then he meets Serianna--an outsider, looking for work, who takes him fishing and smokes a pipe. Soon the two fall in love and marry, and Nesje begins to dream of a prosperous future. But prosperity is hard to come by. Some...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOEAsim, Jabari
Summary: They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASIArden, Katherine
Summary: "During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this historical novel with a speculative twist"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ARDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEAgee, Jonis.
Summary: After arriving at the family estate of her husband Clement Ducharme, pregnant bride seventeen-year-old Hedie Rails learns through old diaries of the dark side of the Ducharme legacy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGERoyce, Eden
Summary: In 1963 in South Carolina, eleven-year-old twins Jez and Jay Turner begin lessons in rootwork, and their uncle's training offers them healing, protection, and a connection to their heritage even as they face threats from the local police deputy, school bullies, and others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Foulds, Adam
Summary: "A new novel, set in North Africa and Sicily at the end of World War II, by the author Julian Barnes called one of the best British writers to emerge in the last decade"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUFoulds, Adam
Summary: It's 1837, and poet John Clare has been put in a mental institution outside London called High Beach. Soon another writer arrives on the scene-- one Alfred, Lord Tennyson-- and their lives become entwined with High Beach's strange owner.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOUGidwitz, Adam
Summary: "To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIDAuel, Jean M.
Summary: An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2001
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Auel, Jean M.
Summary: After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as southwest France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2002
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUERapp, Adam
Summary: "As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Auel, Jean M.
Summary: Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AUELanger, Adam
Summary: Evanston, Illinois, 1982. A group of students at a magnet high school meet to audition for the spring play. Declan, an experienced senior, is confident he'll get his first-choice role, but when the capricious, charismatic drama director casts Franklin, an unknown underclassman-and the two are seen alone at the director's house-a series of events that will haunt the cast for years begins to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LANMyers, Adele
Summary: In 1946 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf's most influential women--the wives of powerful tobacco executives, uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MYECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYEIrving, John
Summary: In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IRVEden, Sarah M.
Summary: "After the death of her parents, Evangeline must succeed as a schoolteacher in a remote region of Northern England in order to claim her inheritance from her grandfather and be reunited with her younger sister, Lucy. When a local bricklayer, Dermot, offers his help, she finds herself falling in love with the Irishman"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EDEEden, Sarah M.
Summary: "Paisley Bell is more than capable of being the sheriff of the sleepy town of Savage Wells--even if she is a woman. But when famed lawman Cade O'Brien arrives to take over the job, the two engage in a showdown of wits and skill. As sparks fly between the two sheriffs, Paisley is afraid she might not only lose her job, but also her heart."--Text from publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2016
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction EdeAdler, Malka
Summary: "Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha's mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor's mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen... Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADLEwen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: The most beautiful, sought-after woman in Belle Epoque Paris, Emilienne sees her youth and beauty fade. As clouds of war begin darkening Europe, Emilienne's young friend, Coco Chanel, has other ideas of how to survive in a man's world. Strong ideas. Now, as Emilienne fights to survive, Coco's star rises.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Adams, Alice
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001