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Children of politicians Fiction Edwards, Elizabeth Todd 1813-1888 Fiction Governors' spouses Fiction Lincoln, Mary Todd 1818-1882 Lincoln, Mary Todd 1818-1882 Fiction Presidents' spouses Fiction Presidents' spouses United States Fiction Sisters Fiction Sprague, Kate Chase 1840-1899 Fiction Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs 19th century FictionChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her sister Mary, widow of President Lincoln, has attempted suicide. If Mary's sisters can put past grievances aside, will their love be powerful enough to save her?
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: 1875. Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her younger sister Mary, former First Lady and widow of President Abraham Lincoln, has attempted suicide. The shocking act followed legal proceedings arranged by Mary's eldest and only surviving son that declared her legally insane. The Todd sisters - maternal Elizabeth, peacemaker Frances, envious Ann, and much adored Emilie - had always turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini has a gift for transporting listeners into the past for riveting explorations of how seemingly ordinary women overcome extraordinary circumstances. In this departure from her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, Chiaverini weaves a historical fiction tale profiling the life of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who would become a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2013Bayard, Louis
Summary: "A miracle; an exquisite story exquisitely told . . . If you love Jane Austen, or Hamilton , or fiction--of any era--that transports and transforms in equal measure, look no further." --A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln , the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAYHambly, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHigginbotham, Susan
Summary: "As the Civil War cracks the country in two, Mary Lincoln stands beside her husband praying for a swift Northern victory. But as the body count rises, Mary can't help but fear each bloody gain. Because her beloved sister Emily is across party lines, fighting for the South, and Mary is at risk of losing both her country and her family in the tides of a brutal war... Emily Todd Helm has married...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: 1875. Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her younger sister Mary, former First Lady and widow of President Abraham Lincoln, has attempted suicide. The shocking act followed legal proceedings arranged by Mary's eldest and only surviving son that declared her legally insane. The Todd sisters - maternal Elizabeth, peacemaker Frances, envious Ann, and much adored Emilie - had always turned...
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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: Fiction Chiaverini 2020Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known to Washington society." (Providence Journal) Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2014Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "Kate Chase was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of Salmon P. Chase. Her father was Abraham Lincoln's secretary of the treasury, and he aspired to even greater heights. Kate stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father in Washington society and as a future presidential candidate. Her efforts were successful enough that The Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIO'Brien, Timothy L.
Summary: "A nation shattered by its president's murder Two diaries that reveal the true scope of an American conspiracy A detective determined to bring the truth to light, no matter what it costs him From award-winning journalist Timothy L. O'Brien comes a gripping historical thriller that poses a provocative question: What if the plot to assassinate President Lincoln was wider and more sinister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase, rose to prominence in the antebellum years and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Abraham Lincoln' s cabinet, while aspiring to even greater heights. Beautiful, intelligent, regal, and entrancing, young Kate Chase stepped into the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIAlford, Terry
Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALFSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010