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Heath, Lorraine

Summary: "1941. A talented flier, Jessie Lovelace yearns for a career in aviation. When the civilian flight school in her small Texas town begins to clandestinely train British pilots for the RAF, she fights to become an instructor. But the task isn't without its perils of near-misses and death. Faced with the weight of her responsibilities, she finds solace with a British officer who knows firsthand...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEA

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: The Crimean War is at its peak as the winter of 1854 sets in, and Commander Phillip Hazard of the 31-gun, steam-screw frigate Trojan is sent to bring troop reinforcements from Constantinople to Eupatoria. On the way, he must handle an overbearing young nobleman with a taste for blood and the pitiless power of a raging storm.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: To break the stalemate in the Crimea, the British must search for unlikely help among the self-reliant mountain people of Circassia. Commander Phillip Hazard of HMS Huntress is dispatched with a select handful of his crew to seek out the guerrilla leader Serfir Pasha and win him over as an ally.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: Spring 1855, the height of the Crimean War, and the siege of the Russian city of Sebastopol continues. In a desperate attempt to cut the Russians' supply line at the Sea of Azoff, the Allies commit 15,000 troops, five batteries of artillery, and virtually every ship of their Black Sea fleets. Commander Phillip Hazard and HMS Huntress undertake the crucial mission of marking a new channel for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: With the Sepoy Mutiny still threatening British lives in India, Commander Phillip Hazard volunteers to accompany a special army force to rescue the besieged British garrison at Ghorabad. Hazard and the men of the Shannon's Naval Brigade are put under the command of Colonel Cockayne, a cavalry officer whose own wife and daughter are among those caught in the siege.

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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: 1857: war is raging in China and from India comes the alarming news of a sepoy mutiny which threatens thousands of British lives in the Bengal Presidency. This is especially alarming news to Commander Phillip Horatio Hazard, for two of his sisters are in India. Anxious for their safety, as well as that of his fellow countrymen, Hazard boards the HMS Shannon, bound for Calcutta. Closely based on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: The Crimean War rages on, and determined to break the stalemate, the British decide to send a spy into Odessa. And who better for this perilous mission than Captain Phillip Hazard, newly promoted to command of the steam-powered Huntress and fluent in Russian? Hazard bravely takes on the task, but saddled with a surly first lieutenant whose previous captain died mysteriously and with his crew...

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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Chadwick, Elizabeth.

Summary: Fictionalizes the life of William Marshal, who is appointed tutor to Prince Henry, heir to the throne, after he rescues the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but William quickly learns of the dangers that are attached to his reward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Paxson, Diana L.

1 hold on 1 copy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAX

Scott, Manda.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCO

Scott, Manda.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCO

Springer, Nancy

Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021

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Harper, Karen

Summary: In April 1897, Charlotte Bill enters service into the house of the Duke and Duchess of York as a nanny. For decades, "Lala", as she is called, cares for her royal charges, some of which will rule, and one known as "The Lost Prince". (summary).

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAR

Hopkinson, Deborah

Summary: In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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

Rowe, Rosemary

Summary: April, CE 194. The tensions in the civil-war-torn Empire have come to Glevum now. Libertus's patron, Marcus Septimus, has received a letter from Druscilla Livia, a widowed cousin of his wife, seeking his protection. She has received an offer of marriage from a powerful Roman Senator, Hortius Valens, a man of cruel and unusual tastes, and she is in no position to refuse. She has run away . . ....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROW

Pope, Dudley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POP

Dickerson, Melanie

Summary: In medieval England, Mazy tries to find her place in the world and meets a friendly knight, Sir Berenger.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022

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

Scarrow, Simon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCA

Gregory, Philippa

Summary: The latest novel from number one New York Times best selling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Gregory 2017

Gregory, Philippa

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Lady Jane Grey and her two sisters each dared to defy their queen. Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was only queen of England for nine days before Queen Mary sent her to the executioner's block. Her younger sister, Katherine, heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her sister Queen Elizabeth, faced imprisonment in the Tower when her pregnancy betrayed her secret marriage. Mary,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gregory 2017

Davies, J. D.

Summary: Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa in pursuit of a mountain of gold. When a captured Barbary pirate saves his neck with a tall tale of a fabled mountain of gold, Quinton has his doubts. But King Charles II can't resist the chance to outstrip the Dutch with a limitless source of wealth. With the devious pirate O'Dwyer in tow, Quinton...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAV

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: Passionately in love with Richard III in spite of her arranged marriage to pretender to the throne Henry Tudor, Princess Elizabeth of York is forced to marry the man who murdered her lover and create a royal family under the controlling gaze of his mother, Margaret Beaufort.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013

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

Bradley, Marion Zimmer.

Summary: A love story during the Roman occupation of Britain in the 1st Century. The protagonists are a Druid girl in training to be a priestess, and a Roman officer pacifying her country. Love unites them, religion and politics separate them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Downie, Ruth

Summary: In the far reaches of the Roman Empire, there are three certainties in life for Doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso: death, taxes, and angry barbarians. The hero finds himself trapped at the heart of an increasingly treacherous conspiracy involving theft, forgery, buried treasure, and the legacy of Boudica, the rebel queen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOW

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