Olmstead, Robert.
Summary: When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OLMOlmstead, Robert.
Summary: When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OLMDain, Claudia.
Summary: On the night of her debut two years ago, Lady Louisa Kirkland fell for the devilish Marquis of Dutton. It's high time, she's decided, that he realized he loves her. Also, there is the matter of Louisa's family pearls, which are in his possession. For both problems, Louisa will need the help of Lady Sophia, an ex-courtesan more clever than all the other matrons combined. Set in Regency England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Sensation 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAIDann, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANBergren, Lisa Tawn
Summary: "In 1772 England, Lady Keturah Banning Tomlinson and her sisters find themselves the heiresses of their father's estates and know they have one option: Go to the West Indies to save what is left of their heritage. Although it flies against all the conventions for women of the time, they're determined to make their own way in the world. But once they arrive in the Caribbean, proper gender roles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: At the height of the Inquisition in 1399, the Gifted, a group of men and women possessing mysterious spiritual gifts, prepares to gather and decipher an ancient prophecy in a letter by St. Paul that has been hidden by the Church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Praise 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBergren, Lisa Tawn.
Summary: The sagas of Kaatje, Elsa, Tora and Karl continue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERShaw, Dash
Summary: "During the Civil War, many Quakers were caught between their fervent support of abolition, a desire to preserve the Union, and their long-standing commitment to pacifism. When Charles Cox, a young Indiana Quaker, slips out early one morning to enlist in the Union Army, he scandalizes his family and his community. Leaving behind the strict ways of Quaker life, Cox is soon confronted with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SHAWang, Daren
Summary: Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2010
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Summary: In 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe is a young, unknown art teacher when she travels to New York to meet Stieglitz, the famed photographer and art dealer, who has discovered O'Keeffe's work and exhibits it in his gallery. Their connection is instantaneous. O'Keeffe is quickly drawn into Stieglitz's sophisticated world, becoming his mistress, protégé, and muse, as their attraction deepens into an intense...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Tripp 2016Bergren, Lisa Tawn
Summary: "The Bettarinis and Forelllis have found rich fulfillment, together in medieval Italia. But after fighting off countless enemies, they now must face the worst foe of all. As the Black Death closes in upon them, threatening everything and everyone they hold dear, Lia and Gabi--and the knights they love--must dig deep within to decide how they might remain safe ... and if they need to risk it all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bergren Creative Group 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERBergren, Lisa Tawn.
Summary: Elsa Anders's dream of marrying Peder Ramstad is about to come true. But as this independent, strong-willed woman discovers her own creative gifts--a love for travel, painting, and the sea--can she find happiness with a captain who insists upon leaving her safely on shore? Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a new life in with their closest friends, including: Kaatje...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2009
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Summary: Gabriella and Evangelia Betarrini are just two normal American teenagers. Normal except for the fact that they time travel to fourteenth-century Italy, where they've lived in castles they've seen as crumbling ruins, become swept up in historic battles, and fallen in love with handsome knights willing to do anything to keep them alive. They've returned to the present to save their father, just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERDare, Tessa.
Summary: "Ever the bold adventuress, Lucy Waltham has decided to go hunting for a husband. But first she needs some target practice. So she turns to her brother's best friend, Jeremy Trescott, the Earl of Kendall, to hone her seductive wiles on him before setting her sights on another man. But her practice kisses spark a smoldering passion--one that could send all her plans up in smoke. Jeremy has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, struggles with difficult moral questions when he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who has been plotting an assassination attempt against President Lincoln.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORDams, Jeanne M.
Summary: In 1900 South Bend, Indiana, Swedish maid Hilda Johansson investigates the murder of a missionary woman just back from China. The victim was the sister of Hilda's employer. A new series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMDams, Jeanne M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMDawson, Jill.
Summary: In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London. Unfortunately it soon becomes clear that all her demons have come with her. Prowlers, sexual obsessives, frauds, imposters, suicides and murderers: the tropes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWDawson, Juno
Summary: "If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWDams, Jeanne M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMDams, Jeanne M.
Summary: June, 1925. Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life in genteel Oak Park Village, Illinois. There, she forms a close friendship with gentle Mr Anthony. But tragedy strikes when Mr Anthony is found stabbed to death in the alley behind his shop. Why would anyone murder a mild-mannered antiques dealer? Could it have something to do with the mysterious customer who bought a gold pocket watch from Mr...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAMDark, Alice Elliott
Summary: The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARBahr, Dane
Summary: "It's 1989 and Amos Fielding, onetime sheriff of Oscar, Iowa, is in his early seventies and grieving the recent loss of his wife, Sara. He packs up his few belongings and heads to a ranch in the far northwest corner of Washington State. The farther he can get from Oscar and his years there as sheriff, the better. Eager to escape painful memories, Fielding throws himself into the daily chores of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024