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Benedict, Marie

Summary: "The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016

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McLain, Paula

Summary: After meeting and falling in love while she covered the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, Martha Gellhorn is forced to choose between her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her career as a war correspondent.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCL

Stratton, Richard (Richard H.)

Summary: In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Benedict, Marie

Summary: The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEN

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC BEN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEN

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Benedict 2016

Greeley, Molly

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: 1547: Pedro Gonzales, a young boy living on the island of Tenerife, understands that he is different from the other children in his village. He is mercilessly ridiculed for the hair covering his body from head to toe. When he is kidnapped off the beach near his home, he finds himself delivered by a slave broker into the dangerous and glamorous world of France's royal court. There "Monsieur...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

McLain, Paula.

Summary: Portrays the love affair and marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Mowrer from their Chicago meeting in 1920 to their lives during the Jazz Age in Paris, but as Ernest struggles to find his literary voice, Hadley tries to define herrole in their relationship as wife, friend, and muse.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCL

O'Connor, Nuala

Summary: A witty and inherently feminist novel about passion and marriage, based on a true story of an unstoppable woman ahead of her time in Victorian London. In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class military family, growing up in a small garrison town. By 1891 she is the Countess of Clancarty, dubbed "the peasant countess" by the press, and a member of the Irish...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCO

Albert, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

McLain, Paula.

Summary: In this fictional memoir, Hadley Hemingway chronicles the life and career of her husband, famed twentieth century writer Ernest Hemingway. Through Hadley's unique perspective, listeners get a behind-the-scenes look into the personal lives of the Lost Generation writers, including Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCL

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCL

Rideout, Tanis.

Summary: A tale inspired by the life and mysterious fate of George Mallory traces the experiences of his wife, Ruth, who in 1924 maintains a hopeful vigil in war-ravaged England during Mallory's fateful third expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RID

Fergus, Jim.

Summary: An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 1998

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McLain, Paula

Summary: "In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict. It's the adventure she's been looking for and her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. But she also finds herself unexpectedly--and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCL

McLain, Paula.

Summary: Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband's career.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McLain 2011

Webb, Heather

Summary: "She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was the legendary crooner whose voice transfixed the world. They were Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. Separately they were irresistible; together they were an explosive combination. Ava's star is rising just as Frank's career--and public image as a family man--is taking a hit. Gone are the days of the screaming...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WEB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEB

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEB

Alexander, Kianna

Summary: "Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own, and a future for her family. When she moves to Edenton, North Carolina from the plantation where she was born, she is free, newly married, and ready to follow her dreams. As the demands of life pull Josephine's attention-deepening her marriage, mothering her daughters, supporting her grandmother-she struggles to balance her real...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALE

Giovinazzo, Diana

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Summary: "Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte-ninth daughter and sixteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria-knows her position as a Hapsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her beloved country. But not yet. The Hapsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte's older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples, and will...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GIO

Wood, Naomi.

Summary: Based upon actual love letters and telegrams, describes fictionalized accounts of the lives and thoughts of each of Ernest Hemingway's four wives, describing what it was like to be loved by the adventurous novelist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: P WOO

Harper, Karen (Karen S.)

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Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her 'The Wedding of the Century' to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind 'the glitter and the gold.' Consuelo finds the inner strength to make the best of a life she did not choose"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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

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Penman, Sharon Kay.

Summary: A novel about the English king Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEN

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