May, James L.
Summary: "Solovetsky occupies the island site of a former monastery in the White Sea. Here, hundreds of miles from civilization, and with a skeleton crew of secret-policemen in charge, some prisoners are consigned to all kinds of forced labor and others sit at comfortable desks in administrative or cultural positions. With the brutal winter fast approaching, Tolya Bogomolov, a young mathematician...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction May 2020Nelson, James L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NELNelson, James L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NELJakes, John
Summary: The second volume in The Kent Family Chronicles, in which young Philip Kent, having escaped the murderous intentions of his half-brother in France, becomes caught up in the valor and turmoil of the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJanes, Diane
Summary: Tom Dod's Aunt Hetty is worried -- three sudden deaths have occurred in the sleepy village of Durley Dean. They might seem like tragic accidents, but Aunt Hetty isn't so sure. After all, all three took a stand against Reverend Pinder, the new vicar of St Agnes Church, whose controversial changes have divided the congregation. But is there really a killer among the parishioners? And while Fran...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Janes 2018Jakes, John
Summary: A novel of two families during twenty turbulent, troubled years that culminate in the shattering Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKMah, Ann
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her as Jackie"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MahGregory, Philippa
Summary: When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined with Margaret's younger sister Mary to a sisterhood unique in the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREJohnson, Mat
Summary: "A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before. When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOHJakes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1998
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Summary: Determined to secure entry into the elite social circles of late nineteenth-century Rhode Island, Sam Driver enlists the help of a pair of social gadflies but finds his efforts complicated by his daughter's romance with an impoverished young Irishman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJakes, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyramid Books 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKJacks, Janie
Summary: Being a military family means always moving forward, rarely looking back--no matter what might happen in one's life. But when a letter arrives at the Jacks house only to remain unopened, Becky Jacks finds herself torn between the most uncurious mother on the planet and her own deep need to know what news the letter brings. On the other side of the world, a war rages in Vietnam, one her mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The RoadRunner Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJakes, John
Summary: Recounts the adventures of two unforgettable families--the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina--in a land ripped apart by the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1984
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Summary: From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book World") comes a novel that spans decades and generations--from the American Revolution through the downfall of the Confederacy--in Jakes's most ambitious work yet.From the "New York Times" bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" ("The Washington Post Book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
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Summary: Under the cover of the Madwomen's Ball--when the great and good come to gawk at the patients of the Salpetriere Asylum in Paris--nineteen-year-old Eugenie, who can see spirits, is determined to escape and seek those who will believe in her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mas 2021Jiles, Paulette
Summary: The story of two different families, headed by a former slave and by a Quaker, who settle in Texas during the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILMay, Peter
Summary: In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverrun 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYJiles, Paulette
Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JILSaeed, Jamal
Summary: "Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family's home, she emerges to a changed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAEJiles, Paulette
Summary: "In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JILMay, Stephen
Summary: "In London in 1907, a decade before the revolution, young Stalin has yet to achieve the power, nor acted on the ruthlessness, that will define his legacy. Instead Koba, as he is known, arrives in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party where he--and many of his fellow Bolsheviks--are only allowed to remain as a nonvoting witness. But his inability to vote does not limit his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAYShuler, Linda Lay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Co. 1996