Rooney, Kathleen
Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROORunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: "December 1917. As World War I rages in Europe, twenty-four-year-old Ruby Wagner, the jewel in a prominent Philadelphia family, prepares for her upcoming wedding to a society scion. Like her life so far, it's all been carefully arranged. But when her beloved older brother is killed in combat, Ruby follows her heart and answers the Army Signal Corps' call for women operators to help overseas. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNSharratt, Mary
Summary: Disguising herself as a man to escape her loveless marriage and enjoy the exclusive freedoms of men, aspiring writer Aemilia Lanier falls in love and runs away with ragged poet William Shakespeare, with whom she secretly writes plays that bring him fame years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAQuinn, Kate
Summary: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything, but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl. Imperious self-made Mab, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything, but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl. Imperious self-made Mab, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2021
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Summary: Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip. 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "India, 1922. Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing when the grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire--but a servant, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly putting herself in harm's way. Perveen learns that Sunanda, who's still ailing from her burns, has been arrested on trumped-up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "When junior lawyer Daniel Pitt is summoned to the scene of a murder in the London district known as Mile End, he only knows that the victim is a senior lawyer from the same firm. What was this respected colleague doing in such a rough part of the city? The firm's head, Marcus fford Croft, may know more than he admits, but fford Crofts's memory is not what it used to be. Daniel finds his path...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: "Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARHenry, Veronica G.
Summary: Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. It's a gift for communicating with animals. To some, she's a magical tender. To others, a she-devil. To a talent prospector, she's a crowd-drawing oddity. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza's ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge. Among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2021
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Summary: Buying his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian wars, Cow Tom builds a remarkable life and legacy that is sustained by his courageous granddaughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TADBaldacci, David
Summary: "When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Summary: In 1901 Vienna, lawyer Karl Werthen takes on two cases that draw him into a conspiracy of espionage and affairs of the state, the murder of a nineteen-year-old prostitute and the assault of a controversial playwright.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONLoigman, Lynda Cohen
Summary: "Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York's Lower East Side, Sara's vocation is dominated by devout older men-men who see a talented female matchmaker as a dangerous threat to their traditions and livelihood. After making matches in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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Summary: Arriving in the turbulent and exciting city of Los Angeles just at the turn of the 20th century, Kit Shannon dreams of a future as a lawyer. Drawn into the upper-class world, Kit feels a burning desire to seek justice for the poor and oppressed, and in the courtroom is forced to confront an attack against the Christian faith she holds dear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2001
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Summary: "Seven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America, traders chafe at government regulations, racial tensions are rising, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians... 1799 was a hell of a year. Thanks to Alexander Hamilton, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil's Half Mile (aka Wall Street), but the young country is still finding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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Summary: "India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASSansom, C. J.
Summary: At the behest of a former servant to Catherine Parr, Matthew Shardlake travels to Portsmouth to investigate claims of unspeakable crimes committed upon a young ward of the court. There, Shardlake uncovers disturbing evidence even as England's continuing war with France rages around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: Flaunting the conventions of nineteenth-century society and feminine behavior, headstrong attorney Sarah Woolson gets more than she had bargained for when a reporter is found murdered during a seance at San Francisco's famed Cliff House.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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Summary: Returning from an evening spent listening to a young Oscar Wilde in 1882 San Francisco, crusading young lawyer Sarah Woolson and her brother, Samuel, are targeted in the fog by a gunman who strikes Samuel, prompting Sarah's investigation into the shooter's identity and intended victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2003
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Summary: It is the winter of 1537 and England is divided into those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the King and the newly established Church of England. Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, crusades against the old Church with savage new laws, rigged trials, and a vast network of informers. Queen Anne Boleyn has been beheaded and monasteries are being dissolved--their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANBaldacci, David
Summary: "Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEHelprin, Mark
Summary: Navy Captain Rensselaer runs afoul of the US president, who demotes him. But he takes the assignment in stride, having fallen in love with a woman who becomes his beacon in his challenging new mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023