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Summary: The Christian ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem following the First Crusade, Baudouin IV, struggles to hold his throne despite political intrigue, personal health risks, and the growing threat of Saladin and his army.
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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 PENGregory, Philippa.
Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC GREChadwick, Elizabeth.
Summary: Fictionalizes the life of William Marshal, who is appointed tutor to Prince Henry, heir to the throne, after he rescues the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but William quickly learns of the dangers that are attached to his reward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHADunant, Sarah
Summary: Renowned for her bright and disciplined way with Renaissance Italy, New York Times best-selling novelist Dunant again visits the Borgias, to whom she recently paid court in Blood and Beauty. As Cesare ruthlessly seeks to unite all of Italy's city-states under Borgia control, Florence counters by sending one Niccolo Machiavelli to Rome as envoy and Lucrezia learns the family business of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNChadwick, Elizabeth
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine is forced into a marriage she does not want, and when a death thrusts her into the role of queen, she faces scandal, forbidden love, and the complexities of the ruthless French court at every turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2014
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Summary: Pulled by chance from her traveling actor family into service under the influential mistress of Louis XIV, Claudette uses her considerable talents to spy on personal and political rivals, only to have her loyalty questioned in the wake of a mercurial Athénaïs's fascination with dark magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GULCaldwell, Taylor
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1970
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALO'Connor, Joseph
Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOScott, Manda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCOScott, Manda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOWolf, Allan
Summary: "In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history's most harrowing--and chilling--tales of survival. In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a shortcut into the wilderness. Eighty-nine of them opt for the untested trail, a decision that plunges them into danger and desperation and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOLRobuck, Erika
Summary: "A heart-stopping new novel, based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of courage collide in the darkest hours of WWII, from the bestselling author of The Invisible Woman. Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to resist. 1940. In a world newly burning with war, and in spite of her American family's wishes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBLatham, Irene
Summary: Alaa loves Aleppo, but when war comes his neighbors flee to safety, leaving their many pets behind. Alaa decides to stay -- he can make a difference by driving an ambulance, carrying the sick and wounded to safety. One day he hears hungry cats calling out to him on his way home. They are lonely and scared, just like him. He feeds and pets them to let them know they are loved. The next day more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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Summary: "Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HEAHuahn, Traci
Summary: Based on the life of Chinese American student Mamie Tape and her fight to attend the all-white Spring Valley Primary School in her San Francisco neighborhood including her family's successful 1885 lawsuit before the California Supreme Court, one step in the long journey towards equality in education. Includes author's note with biographical and historical information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Tells the story of Gerda Taro, a headstrong photojournalist with a passion for capturing the truth amid political turmoil and the first woman photojournalist killed in combat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: As unrest simmers, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov and her three sisters hide from the world on account of their mother's ill health, their brother Alexei's secret affliction, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin, the priest on whom the Tsarina has come to rely. As war approaches, Olga and her sisters trade their gowns for nursing habits, assisting in surgeries and tending to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TURGladden, Yolanda
Summary: Most people think that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954 meant that schools were integrated with deliberate speed. But the children of Prince Edward County located in Farmville, Virginia, who were prohibited from attending formal schools for five years knew differently, including Yolanda. Told by Yolanda Gladden herself, cowritten by Dr. Tamara Pizzoli and with illustrations by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GLAGrimes, Nikki
Summary: In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRIGibney, Shannon
Summary: Two girls on different timelines-- each growing up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee-- find their lives bridged by a mysterious portal. Part memoir, part speculative fiction, Gibney examines the absurdities of the adoptee experience through her own adoption experiences. -- adapted from jacket
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GIBCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GIBFo, Dario
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 FOHicks, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HICHicks, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HICSmith, Charles R.
Summary: "The story of guitarist Jimi Hendrix's career told in verse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2021