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Biographical fiction Countess of Leicester, Lettice Dudley 1543-1634 Fiction Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley 1532?-1588 Fiction Historical fiction I, Queen of England Elizabeth 1533-1603 Fiction Love stories Nobility Great Britain Fiction Queens Great Britain Fiction War photographers Fiction World War, 1939-1945 FictionLawhon, Ariel
Summary: In this "historical suspense, Ariel Lawhon unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another woman's legacy?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: With his beloved black cat Grimalkin as his constant companion, the young Quaker boy Benjamin West discovers and develops his talent as an artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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Summary: A novel inspired by the life of the Vogue model-turned-renowned photographer finds Lee Miller relocating to 1929 Paris, where she becomes the muse and colleague of the mercurial surrealist, Man Ray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Scharer 2019Gregory, Philippa.
Summary: Married to a man twice her age, quickly widowed, and a mother at only fourteen, Margaret Beaufort is determined to turn her lonley life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son on the throne of England regardless of the cost to herself, England, and even her son. Disregarding rival heirs and the overwhelming power of the York dynasty, she names him Henry, like the king; sends him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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Summary: Aaron Burr was a hero of the Revolution, a brilliant politician, lawyer, and very nearly president; a skillful survivor in a raw new country filled with constantly shifting loyalties. But there were dark whispers about him: that he was untrustworthy, a libertine, a man unafraid of claiming whatever he believed should be his. Sold into slavery as a child in India, Mary Emmons was brought to an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCOMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Traces the rich and varied friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KINAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: Set during the chaotic years of World War II, tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, his Irish driver/aide, and the impact of that relationship on Mamie Eisenhower and her life in Washington during the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Examines the life, work, and friendship of Peter Artedi and Carl Linneaus and theorizes about the suspicious death of Artedi and what role, if any, his friend may have played.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scott & Nix 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIEHunter, Georgia
Summary: ""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 2017
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Summary: When clever and ambitious Mehrunnisa boosts her status from twentieth wife in Emperor Jahangir's harem to Empress, she must contend with the greed, love, power and bitter rivalries that go along with it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNMorris, Heather
Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOREstleman, Loren D.
Summary: For many years Judge Roy Bean, the cantankerous self-styled arbiter of rough frontier justice, wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress Lillie Langtry across the sea; occasionally, she wrote back. He even renamed the town in which he lived Langtry in her honor. After years of this strange but poignant correspondence, Lillie finally kept her promise to visit her distant admirer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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Summary: Tells the story of the life and struggles of the highly acclaimed artist, from her childhood in Wisconsin through her art education and rise to fame, to the American Southwest where she found never-ending inspiration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2019
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Summary: A novel about the bitter rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and her fascinating cousin, Lettice Knollys, for the love of one extraordinary man--Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ERIChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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Summary: Ned Kelly, the legendary nineteenth-century Australian folk-hero, describes how he, his brother, and two friends led authorities on a twenty-month manhunt, marked by widespread populist support, before his capture and execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAHicks, Robert
Summary: In New Orleans after the Civil War, John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures--struggles with his inability to admit his failures until those who taught him to love, and to be loved, transformed him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007