Tillyard, S. K.
Summary: In 1649, Jan Brunt arrives in Great Britain from the Netherlands to work on draining and developing an expanse of marshy wetlands known as the Great Level. It is here in this wild country that he meets Eliza, a local woman whose love overturns his ordered vision. Determined to help her strive beyond her situation, Jan is heedless of her devotion to her home and way of life. When she uses the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TILTillyard, S. K.
Summary: "In 1649, Jan Brunt arrives in Great Britain from the Netherlands to work on draining and developing an expanse of wetlands known as the Great Level. Here he meets Eliza, a local woman whose love overturns his ordered vision. Determined to help her thrive beyond her situation, Jan is heedless of her devotion to her home and way of life. When she uses the education Jan has given her to sabotage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TILHedlund, Jody
Summary: Marianne Neumann takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in hopes of finding her younger sister. In 1858 New York she finds it's not always easy to offer children a better life. Former schoolteacher Andrew Brady suffers from a grief that won't go away-- and keeps hidden a secret from his past. As the two team up to place orphans across Illinois, a shocking tragedy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HEDShaw, Tucker
Summary: New York City, 1990. Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and on his first date, quickly falling in love with Callum like the movies always promised. Fashion-obsessed Ben is eighteen and has just left his home upstate after his mother discovers his hidden stash of gay magazines. When Callum disappears, it leaves Adam heartbroken. Ben finds out his new world is more closed-minded than he thought. In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHAQuinn, Julia
Summary: "In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours. Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent--not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction QuinnSalazar, Noelle
Summary: While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SALTaylor, Jordyn
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: Marrying the seemingly delicate Lady Edwina Delbraith, Declan Frobisher discovers that his new bride is unconventional and strong-willed after she accompanies him on a secret mission that leads them to unexpected enemies-- and love. Facing unforeseen perils and unexpected enemies while battling to expose a dastardly scheme involving kidnapped British citizens in West Africa, Declan and Edwina...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAUHadlow, Janice
Summary: "What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HADHur, June
Summary: 1506, Joseon. The people suffer under the cruel reign of the tyrant King Yeonsan, powerless to stop him from commandeering their land for his recreational use, banning and burning books, and kidnapping and horrifically abusing women and girls as his personal playthings. Seventeen-year-old Iseul has lived a sheltered, privileged life despite the kingdom's turmoil. When her older sister, Suyeon,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC HURCotter, Erin
Summary: In London, 1593, sixteen-year-old Will Hughes makes his living on Shakespeare's stage, but after the famous playwright Christopher Marlowe is murdered, he teams up with young Lord James Bloomsbury, and together the two hunt the elusive assassin as their forbidden feelings for each other ignite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: Refusing a job with the Society for the Relocation of Wayward Spirits, Jane Eyre heads to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for Mr. Rochester.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANSchwartz, Dana
Summary: When Hazel becomes the personal physician to Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III, she is dragged into the glamor and romance of the British court, but she soon realizes malicious forces are at work in the monarchy, and she may be the only one capable of setting things right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHAllende, Isabel
Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015
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Summary: In 1930s Hollywood, eighteen-year-old budding starlet Henrietta and her handsome-but-moody co-star Declan go from bitter enemies to reluctant partners when they become entangled in the disappearance of a beautiful young actress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KULMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: Controlled by a domineering mother and an over-opinionated family, Valency Stirling awakens on her twenty-ninth birthday resigned to dull existence. Her only escape is the Blue Castle of her imagination. But when an unexpected letter changes everything, Valency breaks the bonds of fear and finds purpose in a whole new life that turns the Blue Castle of her dreams into a reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "In 1866 Catriona O'Toole arrives in the town of Franklin, Tennessee, searching for her younger brother, Ryan, who, according to his last letter, was headed for Franklin only days before the catastrophic Battle of Franklin. Ryan's last note contained a stack of cash -- enough money to bring his entire family across the ocean from Ireland. But after disease and illness tear through County Antrim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ALEWilliams, Beatriz
Summary: In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam's fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Willam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Williams 2020Kleypas, Lisa
Summary: Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, has never been tempted to embark on an affair. Until now.... Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, as gallant as he is secretive, is rumored to be an assassin. For one exhilarating night they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. As a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLESalazar, Noelle
Summary: 1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It's why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It's why she signed up to train military pilots in Hawaii when the war in Europe began. And it's why she insists she is not interested in any dream-derailing romantic involvements, even with the disarming Lieutenant James Hart, who fast becomes a friend as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Salazar 2019Quinn, Julia
Summary: Meet Our Hero ... Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past ... and the key to his future. The problem is--it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. Meet Our Heroine ... All the town agreed:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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Summary: "An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020