Laurens, Stephanie
Summary: Eligible London bachelor Lord Christopher "Kit" Cavanaugh has begun a business venture that means closing the school for impoverished children run by Miss Sylvia Buckleberry. It soon becomes clear there are villains who want both the school and Cavanaugh's business closed. Working side by side, Kit and Sylvia fight to secure the school and the future that both discover they now hold dear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAUMacneal, Elizabeth
Summary: When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a "leopard girl" because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated. But as she grows close to the other performers, she finds herself enchanted by the glittering freedom of the circus, and by her own role as the Queen of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACHolton, India
Summary: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the teahouse. . . . Miss Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret league of women skilled in the subtle arts. That is to say-although it must never be said-witchcraft. The Wicken League strives to improve the world in small ways. Using magic, they tidy, correct, and manipulate according to their notions of what is proper, entirely unlike those...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLAllen, Nancy Campbell
Summary: "London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALLDonoghue, Emma
Summary: Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Emma Donoghue presents a novel based on the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. As their friendship...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DONAnderson, Rebecca
Summary: "A free-spirited artist teams up with a no-nonsense detective to capture a thief who has stolen a priceless Michelangelo painting. Manchester, England, 1857. Rosanna Hawkins is one of Manchester's finest artists, even though no one knows her name. She reproduces "parlor versions" of classic masterpieces with near-perfect precision, which her employer then sells to the emerging upper-middle...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2023