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Benedictines Fiction Islands Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Monks Fiction South Carolina Fiction Spiritual life Fiction United States. Executive Office of the President Officials and employees Fiction Vampires Fiction Washington (D.C.) Fiction Women Washington (D.C.) FictionMoser, Nancy.
Summary: Moser spotlights Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her struggle for love against all odds. Long confined by baffling ailments, Elizabeth dispels her gloom through Bible meditation, prayer, and writing. But as she and a kind gentleman exchange letters in 1845, his fondness for her poetry takes an unexpected turn--inspiring her secret sonnets and dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosse, Kate
Summary: "Following #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Burning Chambers, New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse returns with The City of Tears, a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war. Alliances and Romance August 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious wars, is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOSMosse, Kate
Summary: Traveling through the French Pyrenees to process the horrors of World War I, Freddie meets a lovely young woman also in mourning with whom he exchanges stories that unravel a centuries-old mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSGore, Kristin
Summary: A funny and moving debut novel about life on Capitol Hill as seen through the eyes of Samantha Joyce, a twenty-six year old health care analyst to Ohio Junior Senator Robert Gary. Hard working, idealistic, extremely competent as well as neurotic and prone to daydreaming, Sammy, as she's known to her friends, has little time for anything, much less a relationship. But in the midst of lobbying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GORGore, Kristin
Summary: Twenty-something Sammy Joyce--hypochondriac, klutz, jumper-to-conclusions--is in the White House as a health-care advisor to the newly elected administration. Everything seems to be falling into place for her. However, soon after taking office, the administration finds itself deep in a red-hot scandal. President Wye's old problem with the bottle re-emerges. An informant within the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORGore, Kristin
Summary: White House aide Samantha "Sammy" Joyce, now in her late 20s, still handling crisis after crisis. She discovers the president is secretly drinking again and that his father was sexual accousted while living in a nursing home resulting in an out-of-wedlock infant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GORSummary: "In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOR NOT RATEDHope, Anna
Summary: "1911: Inside an asylum on the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom, vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week, they come together and dance. When John and Ella meet, it is a dance that will change two lives forever. Set during the heat wave in the summer of 1911 at the end of the Edwardian era, this is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOPOates, Joyce Carol
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATBurkard, Linore Rose
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BURCole, Kresley.
Summary: As prince of Dacia's royal vampires, Trehan Daciano is a master assassin who desires nothing more than a sword in his hand--until he spies the beautiful sorceress Bettina. He enters a tournament to the death to win her hand, but Trehan doesn't realize her heart already belongs to another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLCole, Kresley.
Summary: "In this pulse-pounding Immortals After Dark tale, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole delves into the darkest mysteries and deepest passions of Clan MacRieve. A beast in torment Uilleam MacRieve believed he'd laid to rest the ghosts of his boyhood. But when a brutal torture revives those ancient agonies and destroys his Lykae instinct, the proud Scot craves the oblivion of death....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCole, Alyssa
Summary: "An assassination plot that could end the Civil War, and a hidden enemy that could destroy a secret league of unsung heroes ... Daniel Cumberland, born free in Massachusetts, studied law with dreams of helping his people--dreams that died the night he waskidnapped and sold into slavery. Daniel is rescued, but he's a changed man. When he's offered entry into the Loyal League, the covert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCole, Kresley.
Summary: Lothaire, the immortal world's most feared vampire, is plotting to take Horde's crown. Elizabeth Peirce is a mere mortal--but she possesses a power that Lothaire believes will aid his quest. He wishes to exchange her soul for the crown, but when passion ignites, Lothaire is left with a difficult choice.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLKidd, Sue Monk.
Summary: Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005