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Bell, Gertrude Lowthian 1868-1926 Fiction Christian life Fiction Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 1890-1969 Fiction Great Britain History Medieval period, 1066-1485 Fiction Knights and knighthood Fiction Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward) 1888-1935 Fiction Middle Ages Fiction Middle East History 1914-1923 Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Fiction Young adult fictionAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: During World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower's wife Mamie knew the gossip: Ike was involved with another woman; his letters home were only tepidly reassuring. The relationship between Eisenhower and his driver/aide Kay Summersby moved from England to North Africa and then throughout Europe before and after the Normandy landing. At the end of the war, Ike is faced with the heart-wrenching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBStraley, John
Summary: "Things in the sleepy fishing town of Cold Storage, Alaska, are changing. It's the summer of 1968; the men are wearing their hair long, the Vietnam War is at its height, and multiple assassinations have gripped the country. But some things remain the same. Ellie's bar is still the place to catch up on the town gossip, and there's a lot to talk about, from the boys who have returned from the war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STRAlbert, Susan Wittig
Summary: Set during the chaotic years of World War II, tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, his Irish driver/aide, and the impact of that relationship on Mamie Eisenhower and her life in Washington during the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBSummary: Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 3Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Durrells 2018Summary: The future's looking bright for the eccentric Durrells; catch up with their lives on the beautiful island of Corfu in the fourth and final season. Most of the family struggles with individual business ventures from running a guest house, attempting to get published, starting a beauty salon, and opening a zoo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Du 4Russell, Mary Doria
Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSDickerson, Melanie
Summary: In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Elyce escapes unscrupulous King Conrad by taking a sleeping potion, and after Sir Gerard wakes her with a kiss they begin their journey to Prague in the dead of winter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Frost, Mark
Summary: In an attempt to regain the upper hand for Germany in the fall of 1944, famed commando Otto Skorzeny plots to have 2,000 English-speaking soldiers infiltrate and compromise Allied lines, while a smaller band of highly skilled commandos embark an a more sinister mission with history-changing potential. -- TitleSource III.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FROAltman, John
Summary: "Only one man stands in the way of a plot to murder President Eisenhower in this riveting historical thriller"--provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALTRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUSRussell, Mary Doria
Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Peace Conference convenes, there historic luminaries invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSWiles, Deborah
Summary: One night after a storm, environmental activist Rachel Carson takes her nephew Roger out for a walk by the sea. Includes notes about Rachel Carson, the story, and bioluminescence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILPhelan, Matt.
Summary: Challenged with circling the world at the end of the nineteenth century, three very different adventurers--avid bicyclist Thomas Stevens, fearless reporter Nellie Bly, and retired sea captain Joshua Slocum--embark on epic journeys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PHEMacManus, James
Summary: Reimagines the affair between General Eisenhower and Kay Summersby as they traveled through Europe together on the eve of the final assault on Nazi Germany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACSummary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAWSummary: A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE QUESummary: The story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRE RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FREDickerson, Melanie
Summary: In medieval England, Mazy tries to find her place in the world and meets a friendly knight, Sir Berenger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICWillocks, Tim.
Summary: Carla, a French countess, enlists the aid of a German sword-for-hire when she travels from her home to Malta in search of the boy she gave up at birth twelve years ago, but they arrive just as the city is invaded by the Turks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILWalsh, Liam Francis
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Korean War, Peggy's small hometown is rife with anti-Communist hysteria. But Peggy has bigger problems: She's struggling to recover from polio. Taunted by her classmates, Peggy just wants to be a normal kid, until she stumbles across a mysterious object that gives her the power to fly. Unscrupulous operatives from the American and Soviet governments seek the object to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WALO'Brien, Patrick
Summary: Traces James's journey during the Middle Ages in England from inexperienced page at the age of seven to knighthood at the age of twenty-one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Boltanski, Christophe
Summary: In Paris's exclusive Saint-Germain neighborhood is a mansion. In that mansion lives a family. Deep in that mansion. The Bolts are that family, and they have secrets. The Safe House tells their story. When the Nazis came, Étienne Boltanski divorced his wife and walked out the front door, never to be seen again during the war. So far as the outside world knew, the Jewish doctor had fled. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLSummary: A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019