Perry, Anne
Summary: In this first book in a new series, Thomas Pitt's son Daniel races to save his client from execution, setting him against London's Special Police Branch. It's 1910, and Daniel Pitt is a reluctant lawyer who would prefer to follow in the footsteps of his detective father. When the biographer Russell Graves, who Daniel is helping defend, is sentenced to execution for the murder of his wife,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERPerry, Anne
Summary: It is 1910 and a warehouse fire on the banks of the Thames has left one criminal dead and another charged with his murder. Convinced of his innocence, Jessie Beale begs barrister Daniel Pitt to defend the accused. It's a hopeless case - unless Daniel can find an expert witness, whose testimony on fire damage is so utterly convincing that any jury would believe him. Daniel's friend Miriam fford...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: With prominent men doubting her ability to rule and little preparation to serve as monarch, a young Queen Victoria finds the confidence to rule with help from Prime Minister Lord Melbourne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOOPerry, Anne
Summary: Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat accused of a theft that may cover up a deadly crime in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days. Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Thomas, is delighted that his sister, Jemima, and her family have returned to London from the States for a visit. But the Pitts soon learn of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERKearsley, Susanna
Summary: In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Scottish Highlands to the Borderlands are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England. Queen Anne has sent money up from London for Scots who took part eight years earlier in the ill-fated Darien expedition that left Scotland all but bankrupt. A young widow comes forward to collect her husband's portion of this money, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KEAKotkin, Stephen
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: An American academic is stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war, along with twenty other survivors, who become obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMKotkin, Stephen
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. What she uncovers, deep in the woods, is hardly to be believed... Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they'd been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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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 JOSLeBaron, Anna
Summary: "My father had more than fifty children."So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult--a radical branch of Mormonism--Anna and her siblings were constantly on the run with the other sister-wives. Often starving and always desperate, the children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: CD 921 LEBARON, ANNA LEBMcQuinn, Anna
Summary: Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE LOLQuindlen, Anna.
Summary: Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2010
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Summary: Nora Nolan always felt she lived a ideal life. But one day tensions in her tight-knit neighborhood--and her seemingly happy marriage--are exposed by an unexpected act of violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUILeBaron, Anna
Summary: "'My father had more than fifty children.' So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult -- a radical branch of Mormonism -- Anna and her siblings were constantly on the run with the other sister-wives. Often starving and always desperate, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 LEBARON, ANNA BarQuindlen, Anna
Summary: Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2018
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Summary: As a young girl in Miller₂s Valley, an ordinary farming town that may be facing its final days, Mimi is observing adults, selling corn, growing up and changing, and watching the world around her change, too. As the years go by, the unthinkable starts to seem inevitable. Anna Quindlen₂s novel takes us through the changing eras of Mimi and her family, as secrets are revealed, and the heartbreaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centered their lives. Bill Brown finds himself overwhelmed, and Annie's best friend Annemarie is lost to old bad habits without Annie's support. It is Annie's daughter, Ali, forced to try to care for her younger brothers and even her father, who manages to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: In this irresistible memoir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead--and celebrating it all--as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 QUINDLEN, ANNA QuiQuinn, Anna
Summary: Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks and terror rushes through Nora's body. Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC QUISewell, Anna
Summary: A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 1982
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Summary: Based on a true story, the tale of one girl's dangerous journey to cross the U.S. border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD DOBDobbs, Alda P.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Petra Luna is in America, having escaped the Mexican Revolution and the terror of the Federales. Now that they are safe, Petra and her family can begin again, in this country that promises so much. She leads her family from a smallpox-stricken refugee camp on the Texas border to the buzzing city of San Antonio, where they work hard to build a new life. And for the first time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DOBZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018