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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOSwerling, Beverly.
Summary: Relaunching her architectural history career by tracking down several long-missing pieces of ancient Judaica, recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall accepts the help of smitten reporter Geoff Harris in an investigation with ties to a 16th-century Carthusian monk and a Jewish goldsmith who struggled for survival in a shadowy world marked by Thomas Cromwell, sexual secrets and religious treasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWEAsimov, Isaac
Summary: The Foundation, a colony of psychologists, battles for supreme power in the galaxy, while also struggling to preserve all the accumulated knowledge of humankind in The Foundation, a sanctuary created by Hari Seldon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008
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Summary: When a well-known British TV historian, Marmaduke Godolphin, is found murdered in the canals of Venice during carnival, stabbed by a stiletto blade, the Venetian police are eager to have the case solved and cleared up within a day--murder is bad for tourism! The police recruit the help of retired archivist, Arnold Clover. Godolphin had hired his services on arriving in Venice to help sort...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HEWParnell, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PARMurray, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURHarkness, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARGainza, María
Summary: The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's bodies. The mystery of Rothko's refusal to finish murals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIGraham, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Graham 2017Peters, Elizabeth
Summary: "A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PREHarkness, Deborah E.
Summary: After traveling through time, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARWalker, Martin
Summary: When Claudia, a young American, turns up dead in the courtyard of an ancient castle in Bruno's jurisdiction, her death is assumed to be an accident related to opioid use. But her doctor persuades Bruno that things may not be so simple. Thus begins an investigation that leads Bruno to Monsieur de Bourdeille, the scholar with whom the girl had been studying, and then through that man's past. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALAnthony, Piers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2004
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANTMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases that Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test them to their limits. Life--and crime--is not always as it seems for Ulf Varg and the other fearless detectives in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. There are always surprising new cases to take on, and the latest batch is no exception. And that's not to mention...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCBarnes, Julian.
Summary: A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARJames, Henry
Summary: "This volume, the sixth and final in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of Henry James, brings together two masterpieces of his extraordinary late period--The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)--as well as his last extended narrative work, The Outcry (1911), a short comic novel of social manners."The idea for The Ambassadors came from James's friend William Dean...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMHill, Reginald.
Summary: The tiny village of Illthwaite in Cumbria, England, seems to be the kind of place where nothing much has happened for the last few centuries. But the two young strangers who arrive there on the same dank autumn day soon find that appearances are deceptive. Samantha Flood and Miguel Madero have absolutely nothing in common--except a burning desire to find out more about possible connections...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILWillig, Lauren.
Summary: Eloise Kelly sets off for England to complete her disseration on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentain, discovering references to the most elusive spy of all, the Pink Carnation. As she works to unmask this spy, she stumbles across answers to all kinds of questions. Will she escape her bad luck and find a living, breathing hero all her own?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WILParnell, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: "A picture is worth a thousand words but the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. At first glance it appears to be the famous portrait of Frau Schliemann adorned in the gold of Troy. But closer study reveals the picture to be contemporary -- which is odd since Vicky knows the Trojan gold vanished sometime around the end of World War...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETRussell, Craig
Summary: "A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist. This is the breakout from Craig Russell, author of The Devil Aspect. 1927: Mary Rourke-a Hollywood studio fixer-is called urgently to the palatial home of Norma Carlton, one of the most recognizable stars in American silent film....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Summary: Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019