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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction DickensGaskell, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASFarooki, Roopa.
Summary: Abandoning her privileged life in England and husband of less than a year, Aruna Ahmed returns to her native Singapore, where she remembers the death of her father, her failed relationship with her best friend, and a complicated psychological diagnosis she has tried to ignore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARJames, Bill
Summary: When a journalist is murdered for digging too deeply into the affairs of drug kingpin Adrian Pelotte, Detective Chief Superintendent Esther Davidson comes under pressure to find the killer quickly and prevent a drug war between Pelotte and his rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMBarker, Susan
Summary: Dark themes of colonial misconduct, racial prejudice, and doomed love resonate throughout this novel, yet it is infused with characteristic humor and warmth. It opens in Malaysia during the 1950s Communist insurrection when a young Englishman, Christopher, falls in love with a Chinese girl. The book then moves to 1969 where Frances, Christopher's Eurasian teenage daughter, is seduced by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Swan 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBoyd, William
Summary: Adam Kindred is in London for a job interview and looking at a bright future. Then he has a chance meeting in a restaurant that results in a series of actions that cost him, his family, his money, his very identity. Utterly alone, Adam joins London's underground society of dispossessed and tries to figure out what happened to his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYGuttridge, Peter.
Summary: A man impaled on the South Downs. Another skinned alive. A skeleton found beneath the West Pier, its feet encased in concrete. Brighton has been invaded. But this is no mere power struggle between rival mobsters; the motives for the killings stretch back through the decades, to an explosive forty-year-old secret Brighton's crime king John Hathaway would rather forget. But someone else...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUTGuttridge, Peter.
Summary: The reopened investigation of an unsolved murder in 1934 in which an unidentified woman's torso was found in a trunk at Brighton railway and her legs and feet at King's Cross is discovered to have links to a 2009 massacre in Brighton's Milldean neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUTRendell, Ruth
Summary: Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Rendell 2010Bronte, Charlotte
Contents: Shirley -- The professor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRODickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICGaskell, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GASEllis, Janet
Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD FIC ELLEllis, Janet.
Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLGregory, Philippa
Summary: Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GreDickens, Charles
Summary: The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Oliver Twist dares to ask for more food, and with this a character was created that would be loved the world over and whose story would be adapted into countless television, film, theatre and film productions. For anyone wishing to read the works of the great Charles Dickens, Oliver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flame Tree Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICWilliams, Kate
Summary: "Alive with rich characters and evoking love, loss, and one woman's surprising strength during the tumult of the 1920s and 30s, the new novel in the "Storms of War" trilogy brings this acclaimed series to a dramatic conclusion"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILPerry, Anne.
Summary: Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2010Meissner, Susan
Summary: "Present day, Oxford, England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a perfect life, interviews Isabel McFarland just when the elderly woman is ready to give up secrets about the war that she has kept for decades--beginning with who she really is. What Kendra receives from Isabel is both a gift and a burden--one that will test her convictions and her heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MEIShreve, Anita.
Summary: In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHRShreve, Anita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ShrevJoseph, Paterson
Summary: "A lush and immersive tale of adventure, artistry, romance, and freedom set in eighteenth-century London and inspired by a true story. "I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more." It's 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOSSanderson, Jane.
Summary: Above stairs, Lord Netherwood keeps his considerable fortune ticking over with the profits from his three coal mines in the vicinity. It's just as well the coal is of the highest quality, as the upkeep of Netherwood Hall, his splendid estate on the outskirts of town, does not come cheap. And that's not to mention the cost of keeping his wife and daughters in the latest fashions--and keeping the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sphere 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANPietroni, Anna Lawrence.
Summary: Cradle Cross in 1933 is a town in the heart of Black Country, England, still reeling from the Great War and dominated by a button factory in terminal decline. Into this exotically grim environment arrives Isa Fly, a white-haired young woman from the coast. The mysterious and magnetic Isa exerts a romantic pull on everyone she meets. As the reasons for Isa's sudden appearance become less clear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2010