Borman, Tracy
Summary: "Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth. Much of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the most fascinating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BORSummary: 15-year old Mia is a foul-mouthed, belligerent teen living on an Essex estate [public housing] with her mother Joanne and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been excluded from school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit, spending her days aimlessly. Her only escape--besides smoking, drinking an occasional swiped bottle of booze, and fist fighting with the neighbor girls--is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FISSummary: "What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MRSAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: The story of the joys and trials of the March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy that they encountered through their youth and young womanhood in and around their New England Home and how they attempted to support the family while their Father is away at war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCStrout, Elizabeth.
Summary: In a small town in New England, a girl has an affair with her schoolteacher. Amy Goodrow lives with her protective single mother and the novel examines the way the scandal affects their relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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Summary: In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1995
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Summary: "A Secret History of Witches follows five generations of women -- all of whom happen to be witches -- from nineteenth-century Brittany to London during World War II. Brittany, 1821. After Grand-mère Ursule gives her life to save her family, their magic seems to die with her. Even so, they fight to keep the old ways alive, practicing half-remembered spells and arcane rites in hopes of a revival....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORHadley, Tessa.
Summary: After growing up in a household with no male family members, Joyce works to protect her nuclear family and wonders why her own daughter rejects domestic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADJaye, Lola.
Summary: "Lara Reid knew she was an alien. What other explanation could there be? With her dark complexion and kinky hair, so unlike her fair-skinned parents, Lara knew she was different. At eight she finally learned the word 'adopted'. Twenty-two years later, a stranger arrives as she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cake; a woman in a blue-and-black head tie who also claims the title...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAYAlcott, Louisa May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALCSummary: An enchanting screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's original novel. As the Civil War rages on, the four sisters of the March family struggle to grow up without the guiding hand of their loving father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITFrench, Nicci
Summary: Nina's fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, doesn't come home at the expected time. Nina's annoyance changes to concern and then to a chilling certainty that something has happened. The police insist there's no need to worry, teenagers are unreliable and impulsive. Will everything Nina doesn't know about Charlie, her neighbors, and even the friends and family closest to them prove fatal?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FREGardam, Jane.
Summary: To escape her religious father and bitter mother, Margaret Marsh roams the meadows and beaches of coastal England, where she meets childhood friends of her mother that expose her to a side of her mother Margaret has never known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARAndrews, Jessica
Summary: "A debut novel following a young woman who searches for a way forward by tracking back through her relationship with her mother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDSummary: Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TASSummary: Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LFreud, Esther
Summary: "A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past. It's London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly--once the sparkling object of young men's affections--runs pubs with her brusque, barking husband, Cash. Their courtship began in wartime London, before they returned to Ireland with their daughters in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: Linnet O'Neill, great-granddaughter of Emma Harte, finds herself following in the footsteps of the original woman of substance as she battles to modernize the family business. Returning from her honeymoon full of fresh ideas for bringing the Harte empire into the new century, Linnet locks horns with her mother, Paula, in a battle about the future. But due to unexpected circumstances, Linnet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRABradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: Emma Harte's great-granddaughters find themselves at a crossroads involving family values, traditions, new romance, and business, in the final episode of the Harte family saga.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRABabson, Marian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BABLeroy, Margaret.
Summary: When disturbing postcards begin to arrive in the mail, Catriona Lydgate finds her happy family life succumbing to her secret past, a situation that is complicated when she is accused of deliberately trying to make her daughter ill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LERTudor, C. J.
Summary: "An unconventional vicar moves to a remote corner of the English countryside, only to discover a community haunted by death and disappearances both past and present--and intent on keeping its dark secrets--in this explosive, unsettling thriller from acclaimed author C. J. Tudor. Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. Thirty years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021