Riley, Lucinda.
Summary: "From #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an epic story of family secrets, love, and betrayal set in Imperial India, a magnificent English country house in the 1920s, and that same house today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILMontefiore, Santa
Summary: Leaving London to move into a beautiful house in the country, Miranda and David find their marriage succumbing to long-standing conflicts until a mysterious Frenchman arrives to tend their garden, bringing with him a healing energy that is drawn from nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONHughes-Hallett, Lucy
Summary: "It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war. Dissenters shelter in the woods, lovers rendezvous in secret...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGJones, Cindy S. (Cindy Sundermann)
Summary: Caught in a cycle of loss, Jane Austen fan Lily jumps at the opportunity to travel to England to re-enact Mansfield Park. While there Lily thinks she may finally realize her dream of living in a novel. But even in England, where she is immersed in a literary festival so rich it seems Jane Austen is present, her problems find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONChase, Eve
Summary: "England, 1970. On the one-year anniversary of the Harrington family's darkest night, their beautiful London home goes up in flames. Mrs. Harrington, the two children, and live-in nanny Rita relocate to Foxcote Manor, ostensibly to recuperate. But the creeping forest, where lost things have a way of coming back, is not as restful as it seems. When thirteen-year-old Hera discovers a baby girl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAByatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)
Summary: When author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. There he finds more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. But their personal struggles, their hidden desires, will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces, as the tides turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009
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Summary: When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYADean, Anna.
Summary: Visiting Bellfield Hall to comfort her niece, who has been seemingly abandoned by her wealthy fiance, Miss Dido Kent investigates the possibly related death of a young woman, a situation that is complicated by surprising secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEAShepherd, Lynn
Summary: Shepherd puts a new twist on Austen's work. When Fanny Price is brutally killed on the grounds of Mansfield Park, Mary Crawford teams up with a thief-taker from London, to deal with romance, intrigue, and crimes of the heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYNHadley, Tessa
Summary: Assembling at their country house one final time before it is sold, four siblings and their children share past memories, hidden passions, and devastating secrets that threaten to overwhelm them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HADWebb, Katherine
Summary: After the death of their grandmother, Erica Calcott and her sister Beth return to Storton Manor in Wiltshire, England, where they, while sorting through her things, decide to discover what really happened to their cousin Henry whose disappearance tore the family apart so that the past can be laid to rest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P WEBWilhide, Elizabeth.
Summary: An epic saga of the upstairs and downstairs residents of an English country house spans some 240 years and includes the stories of its original architect, a Victorian family that shared four decades of family history, soldiers billeted in the house during World War I and a young couple who restores the house in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILRiley, Lucinda.
Summary: "For fans of The House at Riverton and Rebecca--a debut spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from a magnificent estate in war-torn England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist, Julia, and the prominent Crawford family whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences for generations to come. As a child Julia Forrester spent many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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Summary: Lucy and David Kahn are invited to a country retreat hosted by the well-connected Farthing set, who overthrew Churchill in 1941 and negotiated peace with Hitler; and find themselves involved in a political murder where David becomes the prime suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALFellowes, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FELPears, Tim
Summary: "Somerset, 1911. The forces of war are building across Europe, but this pocket of England, where the rhythms of lives are dictated by the seasons and the land, remains untouched. Leo, a talented rider and son of the underkeeper to the head groundskeeper, grows up alongside the master's spirited daughter Charlotte"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAEccles, Marjorie.
Summary: Introducing Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon in a new mystery series, set in the Downton Abbey period. November, 1928. Family and friends have gathered at the Shropshire country home of Penrose Llewellyn to celebrate the retired wealthy businessman's 60th birthday. But the morning after what should have been a convivial supper party, their host is found dead in his bed - and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECCEdith
Summary: A beautiful adaptation of the classic novel. Renowned graphic novel artist, Edith, has created an enchanting version of the classic Tom's Midnight Garden. This is a new and special way to read and share one of the best-loved and most enduring children's stories of all time. A story with a special place in the hearts of grandparents, parents, and children everywhere, this wonderful graphic novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 EDIDu Maurier, Daphne
Summary: A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday & Company 1938
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DU MMorton, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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Summary: A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book -- a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MORFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: "It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter - as a partner in a now-thriving detective agency, he's a natural choice to investigate. Just when he's tempted to turn his focus to it entirely, however, his grieving brother asks him to come down to Sussex, and Lenox leaves the metropolis behind for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: A death in the family brings gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox back to the country house where he grew up - just in time to confront an odd, unsettling crime in a nearby village.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINWaugh, Evelyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2012