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Summary: Julian Künstler comes from New York City to L.A. like many a lost twenty-something: to find a job writing in the entertainment industry. But this is 2020 and his temporary visit turns into an extended stay, trapped by the lockdown in a little house in Venice with his glamorous, eccentric, and ancient grandmother. Ninety-three-years old, Mamie came to Los Angeles from Vienna at eleven with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHPickhart, Kalani
Summary: In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICAlcott, Kathleen
Summary: "A family fractures along the political fault lines of the 1960s, setting off a sequence of events ricocheting from anti-Vietnam activism to the Apollo program, in this sprawling multigenerational novel"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCCambor, Kathleen.
Summary: The lives of the people of Johnstown, Pennsylvania are irreparably changed when the South Fork dam, which separates the wealthy from the lower class part of town, bursts on Memorial Day weekend 1889.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMErnst, Kathleen
Summary: When her father is taken prisoner by the British, Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812, tries to help her family run their shipyard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2001
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Summary: Continues the story of Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNErnst, Kathleen
Summary: Caroline's father has just returned when they receive frightening news--British warships are sailing to attack Sackets Harbor. Every grown man, including Papa, has been called to defend the village. Mama and Caroline are left alone to guard Abbott's Shipyard as the battlefront draws ever closer. Caroline knows she must be brave to keep Papa's shipyard safe. But when the battle seems lost, Mama...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2012
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Summary: Caroline and her mother make a dangerous journey across Lake Ontario to the British fort where Papa is being held prisoner. When Mama isn't allowed to see Papa, it's up to Caroline to pass a secret message to him--right under the nose of a British guard! She hopes desperately that Papa will understand her message and make an escape. But can she get to him in time? The illustrated "Looking Back"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2012
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Summary: In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KENGrissom, Kathleen
Summary: "The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad. Published in 2010, The Kitchen House became a grassroots bestseller. Fans connected so deeply to the book's characters that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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Summary: "It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission with the CIA, alongside three fellow agents--none of whom know she is playing two roles. To the prying eyes of the KGB, she is merely a secretary; to her CIA minders, she is the only one who can stop the flow of nuclear weapons from the crumbling Soviet Union into the Middle East. For Mel has a secret;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KENDonohoe, Kathleen
Summary: A debut novel about the passionate loves and tragic losses of six generations of women in a family of firefighters, spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after 9/11. "There isn't anything in the world that hurts like a burn." No one knows the pain of a fire more than the women of the Keegan/O'Reilly clan. Kathleen Donohoe's stunning debut novel brings to life seven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DONErnst, Kathleen
Summary: When her father is taken prisoner by the British, Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812, tries to help her family run their shipyard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNRooney, Kathleen
Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOSpivack, Kathleen
Summary: "A strange, haunting, exhilarating debut novel about survival and love in all its forms: about sexual awakenings and dark secrets, about European refugee intellectuals who've fled Hitler's armies with dreams intact and who have come to an elusive new (American) "can-do, will-do" world they cannot seem to find. A novel steeped in surreal storytelling and beautiful music that transports its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPIFlynn, Kathleen
Summary: "Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Flynn 2017Morgan, Kathleen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fleming H. Revell 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORGear, Kathleen O'Neal
Summary: "This standalone fantasy brings an ancient Egyptian mystery to life against a modern background, in a tale expertly crafted by a seasoned anthropologist. Set against the glory and tragedy of ancient Roman Egypt, this novel brings to life the greatest love story of all time. Sixteen-year-old Hal Stevens is a budding historical scholar from a small town in Colorado. A virtual outcast at high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gear 2020Gear, Kathleen O'Neal.
Summary: "In this third book of the People of the Longhouse quartet, dangerous sorcerer Atotarho sets into motion a cataclysmic battle that threatens to destroy the Iroquoian world. Only three people are brave enough to challenge him: a disgraced warrior known as Sky Messenger; his friend War Chief Hiyawento; and a powerful clan matron named Jigonsaseh. To stop the madman, they must find a way to bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAGear, Kathleen O'Neal.
Summary: Recounts the story of the trading empire of Poverty Port, Louisiana, of 3500 years ago, during which warrior and shaman Salamander experiences a vision that shapes the destiny of his people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAGear, Kathleen O'Neal.
Summary: Two investigations, eight hundred years apart, into the 12th century murders of Indian women and children in what is now New Mexico. One is conducted by a tribal chief at the time they were committed, the other by an anthropologist in the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1999