Allende, Isabel

Summary: Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Higgins, Kristan

Summary: Emerson, Georgia, and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens. When Emerson tragically passes away, she leaves one final wish for her best friends: to conquer the fears they still carry as adults. For each of them, that means something different. For Marley, it's coming to terms with the survivor's guilt she's carried around since her twin sister's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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Laurens, Stephanie

Summary: Marrying the seemingly delicate Lady Edwina Delbraith, Declan Frobisher discovers that his new bride is unconventional and strong-willed after she accompanies him on a secret mission that leads them to unexpected enemies--and love.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Allende, Isabel

Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALL

Thorland, Donna

Summary: "The acclaimed author of Mistress Firebrand and The Turncoat continues "her own revolution in American historical romance"* with another smart, sexy, swashbuckling novel set during the American Revolution. Manhattan and the Hudson River Valley, 1778. The British control Manhattan, the Rebels hold West Point, and the Dutch patroons reign in feudal splendor over their vast Hudson River Valley...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Palombo, Alyssa

Summary: "A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAL

Marshall, Catherine

Summary: The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Marshall

Quick, Amanda

Summary: In 1930s Burning Cove, California, Maggie Lodge hires PI Sam Sage to find the person posing as her boss, known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia. As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head. Maggie, on the other hand, is convinced that Sam is badly in need of guidance and good advice. Sam is haunted by his past, which includes a marriage shattered by betrayal and violence....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUI

Jeffries, Sabrina

Summary: As a viscount's heir, Rafe Wolfford must take a wife but one not too independent and not inclined to delve into his escapades as a spy. The forthright Lady Verity is altogether the wrong choice, or is she?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC JEF

Benton, Lori

Summary: "This epic conclusion in Lori Benton's Pathfinders series, with two brothers, separated at birth, destined to collide at the edge of the Revolutionary War"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Balogh, Mary

Summary: Camille Westcott, who has been declared illegitimate and without a title, moves to Bath to teach at an orphanage, where she meets artist Joel Cunningham, for whom she feels a mutual contempt until things take a passionate turn.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAL

Daniels, B. J.

Summary: The heartbreak and dashed hopes were supposed to stop hurting when Deidre "Drey" Hunter left Hawk Cahill in the past and married someone else. But when her husband vanishes on their wedding night, leaving her in an eerie Victorian mansion, the fairy tale becomes a horror story. Only, this is real, and someone wants Drey dead. Hawk knows ranching, not personal protection-until he realizes Drey...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAN

Quick, Amanda

Summary: Prudence Ryland is kidnapped and wakes up in a room next to a dead man. It's obvious she's being framed for the man's murder. Prudence knows who is responsible, but will anyone believe a Psychic Dream Consultant? No one is more shocked than Prudence when Jack Wingate says he'll help her. But who will protect Prudence from her growing fascination with this enigma of a man?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUI

Allen, 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 ALL

Levenseller, Tricia

Summary: "There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for. Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map--the key to a legendary treasure trove--seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her the perfect opportunity to search their ship. More than a match for the ruthless pirate crew, Alosa has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEV

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Summary: Controlled by a domineering mother and an over-opinionated family, Valency Stirling awakens on her twenty-ninth birthday resigned to dull existence. Her only escape is the Blue Castle of her imagination. But when an unexpected letter changes everything, Valency breaks the bonds of fear and finds purpose in a whole new life that turns the Blue Castle of her dreams into a reality.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Johnston, Joan

Summary: A collection of two novellas featuring the rugged heroes of Bitter Creek, Texas.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Daniels, B. J.

Summary: Cyrus Cahill loves two things: his quiet rancher's life and two feet on the ground ... unless he's riding on four. But an impulsive marriage could jeopardize the Cahill family spread--along with his life--once his honeymoon is over.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DAN

Higgins, Kristan

Summary: Barb and John Frost are testy and bored with each other after fifty years of marriage. At least they have their daughters- Barb's favorite, Juliet; and John's darling, Sadie. The girls themselves couldn't be more different, but at least they got along, more or less. Until the day John has a stroke, and their house of cards came tumbling down. Now Sadie has to come home to care for her beloved...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIG

Freethy, Sarah

Summary: "Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning is quickly dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism. Max is arrested and sent...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Donoghue, 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

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DON

Balogh, Mary

Summary: Philippa, elder daughter of the Earl of Stratton, grew up eagerly anticipating a glittering debut and a brilliant marriage. Then her brother caught their father out in a clandestine affair and denounced him publicly. The whole family was disgraced, and Philippa's hopes grew dim, then were fully shattered when she overheard the dashing, handsome Marquess of Roath viciously insult her upon...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BAL

Spencer, Minerva

Summary: "Magnetic and educated, Marianne Simpson has the manner of a lady and the looks of a lover, not a fighter. Neither of which explains her occupation as a boxer in her uncle's circus, Farnham's Fantastical Female Fayre. Nonetheless, when St. John Powell, the exquisitely handsome Duke of Staunton, begins turning up at her shows, she finds herself dangerously distracted by the powerful peer's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SPE