Dain, Claudia.
Summary: On the night of her debut two years ago, Lady Louisa Kirkland fell for the devilish Marquis of Dutton. It's high time, she's decided, that he realized he loves her. Also, there is the matter of Louisa's family pearls, which are in his possession. For both problems, Louisa will need the help of Lady Sophia, an ex-courtesan more clever than all the other matrons combined. Set in Regency England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Sensation 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAIShrake, Edwin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John M. Hardy Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRMorosinotto, Davide
Summary: "Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler's Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. With little notice, the city's children are evacuated on trains that are meant to take them to safety. Shockingly, Viktor and Nadya are separated, and disaster befalls them both. As the terrible confilect rages, each embarks on a desperate race across snow and ice, struggling through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MORCasey, Donis
Summary: The U.S. has finally entered the First World War and scheduled the first draft lottery. No one in Boynton, Oklahoma, is unaffected by the clash between rabid pro-war, anti-immigrant "patriots" and anti-conscription socialists, who are threatening an uprising rather than submit to the draft. Alafair Tucker is caught in the middle when her brother, a union organizer for the Industrial Workers of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASIvey, Eowyn
Summary: In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads an exploratory expedition up the Wolverine River and into the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return. As they map the territory and gather information on native tribes, whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ivey 2016Godwin, Gail.
Summary: In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audiobooks 2006
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Summary: "Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married--one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia's own brother, Cesar Borgia. She is cast in the role of murderess, temptress, incestuous lover, loose woman, femme...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOGodwin, Gail
Summary: "When the dean of Lovegood Junior College for Girls decides to pair Feron Hood with Merry Jellicoe as roommates in 1958, she has no way of knowing the far-reaching consequences of the match. Feron, who has narrowly escaped from a dark past, instantly takes to Merry and her composed personality. Surrounded by the traditions and four-story Doric columns of Lovegood, the girls - and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODIrwin, Sophie
Summary: "When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season -- no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: A haunting mystery about lost girls and the woman driven to find them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright 2024
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Summary: Anna Fort wants to be a supportive wife, even if that means accompanying her husband for the winter of 1918 to a remote, frozen island estate so he can finish his book as the guest of an eccentric millionaire. When she learns three girls are missing from a school run by their host, Anna realizes finding them is up to her, even if that means risking her husband's career, and possibly her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC BAKIrwin, Sophie
Summary: "A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love ... Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Kitty has never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books / Viking 2022
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Summary: A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gwin 2018Irwin, Sophie
Summary: "When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season--no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2023
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Summary: Farmer and part-time constable Ned Parker teams with the mythical sheriff John Washington to track down a murderer that may be targeting Ned's family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WORMurphy, Devin
Summary: In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II. Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MURMurphy, Devin
Summary: Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold the family in high esteem. On days when they aren't playing with friends, Jacob and Edwin help their Uncle Martin on his fishing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MURGodwin, Gail.
Summary: In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODGodwin, Parke.
Summary: The story of King Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon ruler of the English and his 20-year romance with Edith, his common-law wife. On being crowned he is forced to marry another, but it is Edith who is by his side when he goes to his death, fighting the Normans at the Battle of Hastings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODAmis, Martin
Summary: A fictionalized look at the Holocaust told from the human perspective of four different characters: Paul Doll, commandant of a concentration camp; his wife, Hannah Doll, who is far more aware of what is going on around her than her husband realizes; Angelus 'Golo' Thomsen, the privileged nephew of Hitler's personal secretary who falls for Hannah; and Szmul, a Jewish prisoner who works at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AMIAmis, Martin.
Summary: "From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create amagic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2014
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Summary: "After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility--no mean feat for a servant in 1884. In 1985, Bailey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY DAVDavis, Lindsey
Summary: "In Lindsey Davis's next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death. In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006