Hannah, Kristin
Summary: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. On March 3, 1913, a glorious march commences, but negligent police allow vast crowds of belligerent men to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHISalazar, Noelle
Summary: While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SALWood, Tracey Enerson
Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOJohnson, Sadeqa
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their men deep underground each day, dreading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction RusGreeley, Molly
Summary: Charlotte Collins is the respectable wife of a vicar. Then she makes the acquaintance of Mr. Travis, a local farmer and tenant of Lady Catherine, who makes her feel appreciated, heard, and seen. With her sensible nature confronted, and her own future about to take a turn, Charlotte must now question the role of love and passion in a woman's life, and whether they truly matter for a clergyman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: Late September, 1942. Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Spitfire to Biggin Hill Aerodrome when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft. When she returns to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, tied up and gagged. Jo hurries away, but can't shake the image of the serviceman from her mind. Several days later, when Jo recounts the story to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINKline, Christina Baker
Summary: Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KLIAdams, Hope
Summary: "Nearly two hundred condemned women on board a sailing ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. London, 1841. One hundred eighty Englishwomen file aboard the Rajah, embarking on a three-month voyage to the other side of the world. They're daughters, sisters, mothers-and convicts. Transported for petty crimes. Except one of them has a deadly secret, and will do anything to flee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AdamsPenner, Sarah
Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PENBurdick, Serena
Summary: Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. But then one morning she is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy, and the only way to free...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Navy Captain Rensselaer runs afoul of the US president, who demotes him. But he takes the assignment in stride, having fallen in love with a woman who becomes his beacon in his challenging new mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC HELWillig, Lauren
Summary: Aspiring archaeologist Betsy Hayes finds herself in the heart of two often-overlooked wars in history: the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish-American War, finding love and friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WILBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENChurch, Meagan
Summary: It's the 1960s in North Carolina, and Lorraine Delford has it all. Yet every time she looks through her father's telescope, she dreams of leaving it all behind to go to space. But when this darling girl-next-door gets pregnant, she's forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep women grounded. To hide their daughter's secret shame, the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHUQuinn, Kate
Summary: A fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUIDonati, Sara
Summary: In nineteenth-century New York, women's advancement has brought out the worst in some men. Two trailblazing female doctors continue to aid disadvantaged women society wants to forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DONRunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: This novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUNJoshi, Alka
Summary: Immersed in her exciting perfume work, Radha hears that her unacknowledged son is coming to Paris to find her, which could upset her career and threaten to destroy a vulnerable marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOSRunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: This novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RUNMoore, H. B. (Heather Brown)
Summary: "Based on the true story of the free-spirited daughter of Queen Victoria. As a young woman, Princess Louise is considered the most beautiful and talented daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She is also strong-willed and resists following the queen's rigid rules and strict protocols for a princess. After her father's untimely death, Louise's life is upended by the inconsolable grief of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOOKelly, Julia
Summary: When it's announced that 1958 will be the last year debutantes are to be presented at court, thousands of eager mothers and hopeful daughters flood the palace with letters seeking the year's most coveted invitation: a chance for their daughters to curtsey to the young Queen Elizabeth and officially come out into society. In an effort to appease her traditional mother, aspiring university...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022