Newman, Sharan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: "John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson of the British Army--who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCNewman, Sharan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BellaRosaBooks 2008
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Summary: In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCAppelfeld, Aharon
Summary: Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters--escapees from a nearby ghetto--hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Appelfeld 2020McCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording reimagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula, in a meticulously researched accountthat reveals additional information that may prove Dula's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McCrumb 2011Golding, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1994
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Summary: It is up to mountain wisefolk Rattler and Nora Bonesteel to calm the Civil War ghosts who are still wandering the mountains and prevent a clash between the living the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: "John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson of the British Army--who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction McCrumb 2013Charyn, Jerome
Summary: "Narrated by a starry-eyed lesbian, Big Red reimagines the tragic career of Rita Hayworth and her indomitable husband, Orson Welles. Set amidst the noir glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age, Big Red reenvisions the life of one of America's most enduring icons: Gilda herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red hair and hypnotic dancing helped make her the quintessential movie star of the 1940s. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACharyn, Jerome
Summary: "J.D. Salinger, the mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye, is remembered today as a litigious misanthrope who disowned his daughter. Jerome Charyn's Sergeant Salinger is a young WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British. A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellevue Literary Press 2021
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Summary: ""Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible."-- Tom Bissell Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Charyn 2019Harmon, Amy
Summary: "When infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy decides to go straight, he discovers that too many of the powerful men he crossed won't let bygones be bygones. To have a chance at a new life, he'll have to become someone else entirely. A brief, fateful encounter with the celebrated singer Jane Touissant on the eve of his escape offers a glimpse of what might have been, but Butch disappears, leaving her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCharyn, Jerome.
Summary: Traces the historic arc of Lincoln's life from his picaresque days as a gangly young lawyer in Sangamon County, Illinois, through his improbable marriage to Kentucky belle Mary Todd, to his 1865 visit to war-shattered Richmond only days before his assassination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAWharton, Edith
Summary: The Age of Innocence is the haunting story of the struggle between love and duty in Gilded Age New York told through the eyes of Newland Archer and his betrothed, May Welland. A young lawyer on the rise, Newland Archer needs only a society wife to solidify his position, but finds himself torn after he meets and falls deeply in love with May's disgraced cousin, the Countess Olenska. Edith...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wharton 1996Chabon, Michael.
Summary: An eighty-nine-year-old former detective in rural England becomes involved with a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a series of numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAStyron, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1967
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STYChabon, Michael.
Summary: Author Michael Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures--from "The Arabian Nights" to Alexandre Dumas--in a new novel with a cast of characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHACameron, Sharon
Summary: Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMWharton, Edith
Summary: Hackles bristle discreetly, lips curl ever-so politely, and every breach of good taste is carefully recorded, as social aspirant Lily Bart launches a desperate bid for a place on the city's elite social register.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FICTION Wharton 1989Chabon, Michael.
Summary: In the Kingdom of Aran, in the Caucasus Mountains in 950 A.D., two adventurers wander the region, plying their trade as swords for hire, until they become involved in a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars as bodyguards for a fugitiveprince.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACameron, Sharon
Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAMCameron, Sharon
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Cameron 2020Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2006