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Summary: "A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WALGrant, Libbie
Summary: In 1827, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger who claims he can speak directly to God. In a few short years, Joseph Smith will found his own religion, gain tens of thousands of zealous followers and fracture Emma's life and faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRAHawker, Olivia
Summary: "1857. Three women -- once strangers -- come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: Lady Aline Marsden was brought up to make an advantageous marriage to a member of her own class. Instead, she willing gave her innocence to John McKenna, a servant on her father's estate. Their passionate transgression was unforgivable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KLEMedeiros, Teresa
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MEDJones, J. Sydney.
Summary: After a singer is killed during rehearsals of a new production, the evidence suggest that someone is trying to murder the famed conductor and composer Gustav Mahler. His mistress ask Karl Werhem to help stop the attacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONAlexander, Sara
Summary: Housekeeper Santina becomes deeply enmeshed within the family she works for while she navigates her feelings for her employer and hides secrets that could shatter the home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEKilpack, Josi S.
Summary: Young author Walter Scott is desperately in love with Mina, but after she rejects his marriage proposal, Walter travels to England, where he meets and courts a young Frenchwoman, Charlotte Carpenter and discovers there is a difference between a man's first love and his best love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KILKilpack, Josi S.
Summary: Young author Walter Scott is desperately in love with Mina, but after she rejects his marriage proposal, Walter travels to England, where he meets and courts a young Frenchwoman, Charlotte Carpenter and discovers there is a difference between a man's first love and his best love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILKingsbury, Kate.
Summary: It's the holiday season and the Pennyfoot staff is brimming with anticipation. But when a former employee is found dead, the proprietor, Cecily, starts feeling more jinxed than jolly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINInouye Huey, Emily
Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INOKendrick, Stephen
Summary: The murder of a priest in a London church that is hosting a secret meeting of religious leaders leads to the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa, a place of trade caravans, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURGeorge, Nina
Summary: "A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love in this tender, lyrical standalone novel inspired by the "bona fide international hit" (The New York Times Book Review) The Little Paris Bookshop In Nina George's New York Times bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop, beloved literary apothecary Jean Perdu is inspired to create a floating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOMontgomery, Jess
Summary: When Lily Ross learns that her husband, Daniel Ross, the town's widely respected sheriff, is killed while transporting a prisoner, she is devastated and vows to avenge his death. Hours after his funeral, a stranger appears at her door. Marvena Whitcomb, a coal miner's widow, is unaware that Daniel has died, and begs to speak with him about her missing daughter. From miles away but worlds apart,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Montgomery 2019Gold, Glen David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLCornwell, Betsy
Summary: "Adele grew up in the shadows--first watching from backstage at her mother's Parisian dance halls, then wandering around the gloomy, haunted rooms of her father's manor. When she's finally sent away to boarding school in London, she's happy to enter the brightly lit world of society girls and their wealthy suitors. Yet there are shadows there, too. Many of the men that try to charm Adele's new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CORSansom, C. J.
Summary: It is the winter of 1537 and England is divided into those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the King and the newly established Church of England. Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, crusades against the old Church with savage new laws, rigged trials, and a vast network of informers. Queen Anne Boleyn has been beheaded and monasteries are being dissolved--their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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Summary: "In a little town in the south of France in the 1960s, a dazzling encounter with Love itself changes the life of little Marie-Jeanne forever. As a girl, Marie-Jeanne realizes she can see the marks Love has left on the people around her--little glowing lights on the faces and hands that shimmer more brightly when the one meant for them is near. Before long, Marie-Jeanne is playing matchmaker,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC GEOGraff, Lisa (Lisa Colleen)
Summary: "As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. That one day is enough to make the few things that aren't so fantastic about McKinley's life--like her crabby homeroom teacher or her super-scheduled father--worth suffering through. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRABlakemore, A. K.
Summary: In the small English town of Manningtree in 1643, when a newcomer who identifies himself as the Witchfinder General arrives, Rebecca West must quell the rumors of covens, pacts, and bodily wants to save to save the town's women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLASansom, C. J
Summary: When a distant relative of Princess Elizabeth is found dead, Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate the murder, which may have connections reaching to a peasant rebellion sweeping the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Either one would make a perfect husband, someday. There is only one Rokesby Billie absolutely cannot tolerate, and that is George. He may be the eldest and heir to the earldom, but he's arrogant,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUISansom, C. J.
Summary: At the behest of a former servant to Catherine Parr, Matthew Shardlake travels to Portsmouth to investigate claims of unspeakable crimes committed upon a young ward of the court. There, Shardlake uncovers disturbing evidence even as England's continuing war with France rages around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011