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Summary: When two masterminds--Mary, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron--are brought together by fate, they make a shocking--and magical--discovery that draws the attention of a mad scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANMarston, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARAuxier, Jonathan
Summary: In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC AUXCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AUXTitus, Eve.
Summary: Basil leads an expedition up a towering Swiss mountain in search of a colony of mice who have been missing for centuries, but before he can solve the mystery he must confront a mysterious snow mouse and evil Professor Ratigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2017
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Summary: After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPRSpringer, Nancy.
Summary: While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SPRKizis, Deanna
Summary: In a park of Regency-era London, Penelope, a little pug, gets separated from her Lady and is found by Lady Diggleton, so Penelope does her best to mind her manners in order to stay with her new Lady.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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Summary: Penelope the Pug accompanies Lady Diggleton to Windsor Castle, but when the Queen's diamond ring goes missing and the snooty dog Duchess stands accused, Penelope finds a way to prove her innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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Summary: Filled with high-seas intrigue and sharp tensions, this nautical novel takes an intense voyage into the heart of Napoleonic-era Africa. The year is 1819 and Captain Adam Bolitho has been sent on an urgent but risky mission to make a fast passage from Plymouth to Freetown, West Africa, with secret orders for the senior officer stationed there. Due to the slave trade being declared illegal, ships...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2011
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Summary: An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England where he becomes heir to a title and a fortune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURKirwan, Anna.
Summary: In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess. Includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KIRFollett, Ken
Summary: "The spinning jenny, a device that reduced the amount of work required to produce cloth, was patented in 1770 and a new era of industry changed lives everywhere. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a young man unexpectedly inherits a failing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FOLFollett, Ken
Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLCookson, Catherine.
Summary: The story of a woman whose fateful choices as a young woman exact a terrible toll not only on her life, but on the lives of those dearest to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993
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Summary: "Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARMarston, Edward.
Summary: London, 1851. The London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, injuring the driver and others aboard. With teh opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways. But not everyone is celebrating. Planned with military precision, this crime challenges the new Police force to its limits and leads Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2004
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Summary: Expected to make an advantageous marriage, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott rebels shortly before her betrothal is announced and flees, throwing herself into charitable work and befriending a group of similarly-minded, independent women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARMcNeal, Laura
Summary: "A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCNCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: In the year 1810 Napoleon is determined to conquer Portugal. But Captain Richard Sharpe leads the French directly into the Duke of Wellington's devastating defenses at Torres Vedras, where one of the great battles of the Napoleonic wars erupts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CORFollett, Ken
Summary: "The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FollettSaunders, Kate
Summary: It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he had taken to wandering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAUDubowski, Cathy East.
Summary: A simplified, abridged version of Black Beauty's experiences with both good and bad masters in nineteenth-century England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE DUBStuart, Anne (Anne Kristine)
Summary: Bryony and her sisters are left alone and destitute after the disgrace and death of their father, so Bryony disguises herself as a servant in the house of the Earl of Kilmartyn in order to find the truth and clear her father's name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake Romance 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STURobards, Karen.
Summary: He was her husband, her lover, the pirate who seized her body, then stole her heart. Lady Catherine Aldley fled England to make a home with the infamous Jonathan Hale in Carolina. But their perfect life was shattered when Cathy was summoned to England to her ailing father, and discovered that her marriage to Jonathan was a sham. He was a wanted man, one step from the gallows. The only way she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012