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Faulks, Sebastian

Summary: American historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city where a youthful misadventure once left her dejected. But a chance encounter with Tariq, a Moroccan teenager whose visions of the City of Lights as a world of opportunity and rebirth starkly contrast with her own, disrupts her plan. Hannah agrees to take Tariq in as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAU

Parnell, Sean

Summary: "When Eric Steele gets a call that a fellow Alpha is in serious trouble, he rushes to Paris. But it's too late - Ron Raines, Alpha Six, is dead, the victim of a brutal stabbing. While on leave in the City of Light, Raines had met an attractive art historian who lured him to his death. Before she vanished, the mysterious woman left a warning for anyone from the Alpha Program who might follow...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Harkness, Deborah E.

Summary: "After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Graham, Heather

Summary: Eager to start their life together, historian Vickie Preston and Special Agent Griffin Pryce take a detour en route to their new home in Virginia and stop for a visit in Baltimore. But their romantic weekend is interrupted when a popular author is found dead in the basement of an Edgar Allan Poe-themed restaurant. Because of the mysterious circumstances surrounding the corpse, the FBI's Krewe...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Graham 2017

Parnell, Sean

Summary: "Special operative Eric Steele hunts a foreign assassin targeting top-tier US military personnel in the third electrifying military thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of All Out War"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAR

Fforde, Jasper.

Summary: It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFO

Smith, Dominic

Summary: "Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, The Electric Hotel follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Kadish, Rachel

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, anemigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kadish 2017

Bennett, Robert Jackson

Summary: Sent to a backwater colony that was once a god-supported conquering power, spymaster Shara Divani investigates the brutal murder of a historian and uncovers evidence that the city's divine protectors may still be alive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult- Fantasy, Call number: Fantasy Bennett 2014

Bennett, Brit

Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEN

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