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May, Peter

Summary: Fin Macleod returns to the outer Hebridean island of his youth to make amends and restore his parents' cottage before investigating a death involving family secrets and a sinister adversary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: M MAY

Jenoff, Pam

Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JEN

Cameron, Sharon

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course--protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Cameron 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Tarshis, Lauren

Summary: A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016

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Nielsen, Jennifer A

Summary: In 1942 sixteen-year-old Chaya Lindner is a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, a courier who smuggles food and documents to the isolated Jewish ghettos in southern Poland, depending on her forged papers and "Aryan" features--but when a mission goes wrong and many of her colleagues are arrested she finds herself on a journey to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Nielsen 2018

Tarshis, Lauren.

Summary: A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TAR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION TAR

Sands, Kevin

Summary: When Christopher Rowe's code-breaking uncovers the true target of an assassination attempt, he and his friends are ordered to Paris to investigate a centuries-old curse on the French throne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Williamson, Victoria

Summary: On a remote Scottish island, Max loses his hearing in a boating accident. Struggling to make sense of his new life, and resenting being put into the 'special' class at school, he notices changes taking place after a new wind farm is constructed off the island's coast. People have become irritable and unpredictable, and acts of violence threaten to tear the community apart. For the turbines are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Neem Tree Press 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: JFIC WIL

Alexander, V. S.

Summary: It's not just a thousand miles that separates Hanna Majewski from her younger sister, Stefa. There is another gulf--between the traditional Jewish ways that Hanna chose to leave behind in Warsaw, and her new, independent life in London. But as autumn of 1940 draws near, Germany begins a savage aerial bombing campaign in England, killing and displacing tens of thousands. Hanna, who narrowly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Alexander

McCaughrean, Geraldine

Summary: In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Lainoff, Lillie

Summary: France, 1655. Tania, the daughter of a retired musketeer, is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls. When her father is murdered she learns that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris. It is no finishing school: it is an academy for female Musketeers, socialites on the surface but dangerous, well-trained women who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022

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

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

Phillips, Michael R.

Summary: The Dramatic Conclusion to Michael Phillips's Shetland Islands Saga Loni Ford's unexpected inheritance of substantial real estate--not to mention a title--in the Shetland Islands has caused more than a stir in the quiet fishing hamlet of Whale's Reef. How is life ever to be the same with an outsider--and a woman, at that--playing such a pivotal role in the life of this conservative community?...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Phillips 2017

Mlynowski, Sarah

Summary: When Jonah and two of his friends are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan, Abby and the fairy Maryrose follow them to make sure they are safe--but soon Abby uncovers a plot by the evil fairy Gluck and Tinkerbell to trap Maryrose in Neverland forever.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

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Davies, Carys

Summary: "John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Dean, Karen.

Summary: A family visit to historical sites on Michigan's Mackinac Island including Fort Mackinac, Aron Rock and the Grand Hotel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Proctor Publications 2003

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 917.74 DEA

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.74 DEA

Jenoff, Pam

Summary: Becoming a spy for the resistance after the Nazi's invade Poland, Emma Bau, taking on a new identity as a gentile, becomes a high-ranking Nazi official's assistant and, leading a double life, compromises her marriage vows, her safety, and the lives of those she loves for the cause.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JEN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEN

Mobley, Jeannie

Summary: Juliette Pitau, the daughter of a master gem-cutter, hopes to avoid execution by telling the court clerk--who is also her paramour--the story of how King Louis XIV's magnificent blue diamond was stolen. Includes author's note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

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

Witterick, J. L.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIT

Gratz, Alan

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013

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Berry, Julie

Summary: In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BER

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Berry 2016

Choldenko, Gennifer

Summary: Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2009

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

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC CHO

McPherson, Catriona

Summary: "It's the breezy Scottish summer of 1936 and aristocratic sleuth Dandy Gilver, along with trusted colleague Alec Osborne, has been called to solve the strange case of the Cramond Ferrywoman, on the Firth of Forth. From their cheerless digs in a local stately home, Dandy and Alec track Vesper Kemp, the ferrywoman, to a tiny tidal island. She seems to have lost her mind, roaming the beaches in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCP

Otis, Cindy L.

Summary: Quinn Calvet was supposed to be having an epic year. She had all kinds of plans with her best friend, Ximena, and sister, Ava, and to grow her following as an influencer on The Whine. Instead, Quinn finds herself third wheel to Ximena and her new boyfriend or getting ditched by Ava who has turned into an overachiever, obsessed with studying and joining every school club. It brings up Quinn's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Nickson, Chris.

Summary: Investigating the deaths of a young woman and a baby whose bodies were found in a deliberately set fire, Richard Nottingham conducts a search through the streets of Leeds before discovering a link to a wealthy wool merchant.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIC

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