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Jones, Cindy S. (Cindy Sundermann)

Summary: Caught in a cycle of loss, Jane Austen fan Lily jumps at the opportunity to travel to England to re-enact Mansfield Park. While there Lily thinks she may finally realize her dream of living in a novel. But even in England, where she is immersed in a literary festival so rich it seems Jane Austen is present, her problems find her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JON

Conaghan, Brian

Summary: "All seventeen-year-old Dylan Mint wants is to keep his Tourette's in check and live as a normal teen, but during a routine hospital visit he overhears that he is going to die, and in an attempt to claim the life he has always wanted he makes a list of "Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It" and sets out to have some fun."--From Publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016

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

Johnson, Maureen

Summary: "Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain--questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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

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3 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOH

Ball, Jesse

Summary: The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor. The world is divided into two groups, pats and quads. The pats may kill the quads as they like, and do. The quads have no recourse but to continue with their lives. The Divers' Game is a thinly veiled description of our society, an extreme case that demonstrates a truth: we must change or our world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL

Cohn, Rachel

Summary: "Dash and Lily were feeling closer than ever...it's just too bad they're now an ocean apart. After Dash gets accepted to Oxford University and Lily stays in New York to take care of her dogwalking business, the devoted couple are struggling to make a long distance relationship work. And when Dash breaks the news that he won't be coming home for Christmas, Lily makes a decision: if Dash can't...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, [an imprint of Random House Children's Book, a division of Penguin Random House LLC] 2020

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

Bello, A. (Abiola)

Summary: Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland. Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer. When Trey and Ariel learn that Wonderland is on the brink of being shut down by a neighborhood gentrifier, they team up to stop the doors...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2023

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

Wingate, Marty

Summary: England, 1957. Olive Kersey's only love never returned from World War II, and now she's alone and penniless. Then the last person she ever expected to see again returns to Southwold. Olive's childhood friend, Margery Paxton, arrives to claim her inheritance: Mersea House, a stately old home she plans to turn into the town's only lodging. Olive's life takes a sunny turn when Margery hires her to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

O'Connor, Joseph

Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCO

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

Lyons, Annie

Summary: "London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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

Gunnis, Emily

Summary: A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret... 1960. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca lives in fear of her father's temper. As a storm batters Seaview Cottage one night, she hears a visitor at the door and a violent argument ensues. By the time the police arrive, Rebecca's parents are dead and the visitor has fled. No one believes Rebecca heard a stranger downstairs... 2014. Iris, a journalist,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUN

Dean, Benjamin

Summary: Heavy is the crown James has been born to wear, especially as the first Black heir to the British throne. But with his father's recent passing, and with a new boyfriend to hide, James is woefully unprepared for the sudden shine of public scrutiny. When his secrets come spilling forth across tabloid pages and the man he thought he loved has suddenly disappeared, James finds himself on the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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

Simonson, Helen

Summary: It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's Latin teacher: Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good breeding in search of a position after the death of her father. Agatha's nephews, meanwhile, have come to spend the summer months, as always, both with dreams of their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2016

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Simonson, Helen.

Summary: Bestselling author Helen Simonson returns with a splendid historical novel full of the same wit, romance, and insight into the manners and morals of small-town British life as her beloved "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand." It's the summer of 1914 and life in the sleepy village of Rye, England is about to take an interesting turn. Agatha Kent is expecting an unusual candidate to be the school's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Archer, Jeffrey

Summary: "Newly promoted, Detective Inspector William Warwick, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work--to go undercover and expose corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police. Along with constables Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Sergeant Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ARC

Donoghue, Emma

Summary: A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Summary: In early twentieth century New England, talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up in their company.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Classics 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIG

Simonson, Helen.

Summary: Arriving in the village of Rye, England, in 1914, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes the first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SIM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIM

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Simonson 2016

Khan, Hena

Summary: When aspiring artist Deena's anxiety reaches a breaking point, both she and her mother learn the importance of asking for help, and that, with the right support, she can create something truly beautiful.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2024

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Halls, Stacey

Summary: In a house full of secrets, the nanny hides her own. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAL

Archer, Jeffrey

Summary: "William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle appears to exceed his income. But as a personal relationship develops with a member of William's team, it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARC

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ARC

Steel, Danielle

Summary: Beauchamp Hall is perfect for the holidays, a delightful novel about a young American woman who finds love and fulfillment in the course of her involvement with a Downton Abbey-style TV show in England.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2018

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

Capes, Kirsty

Summary: "At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's pregnant. She could tell her social worker Henry, but he's useless. She should tell her foster mother, Lisa, but she won't understand.She really ought to tell Boy, but she hasn't spoken to him in weeks. Bess knows more than anyone that love doesn't come without conditions. But this isn't a love story..."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orion 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAP

Faulks, Sebastian.

Summary: Five interconnected stories trace the experiences of soldiers whose relationships are shaped by war, from a World War II prisoner who endures his incarceration by imagining a cricket match to a man in a Victorian poorhouse who shamefully remembers the son he gave away.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAU

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