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Summary: As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the federal purview. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIAzzopardi, Trezza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AZZAlbert, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALBBeauman, Sally.
Summary: "Before the summer is over, a catastrophic event changes the life of three young sisters in 1967 England"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEAChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: As the nation moves toward civil war, one resident of Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania has her life irrevocably changed. Dorthea Granger is asked by her uncle-- shortly before his violent death-- to stitch an unusual quilt. When she learns the quilt contains hidden clues for the Underground Railroad, Dorthea makes a brave decision. She will put her own life at risk to continue the work that cost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIEdwards, Cassie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EDWChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "Kate Chase was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of Salmon P. Chase. Her father was Abraham Lincoln's secretary of the treasury, and he aspired to even greater heights. Kate stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father in Washington society and as a future presidential candidate. Her efforts were successful enough that The Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIAlexander, Bruce
Summary: Sir John Fielding, the legendary blind eighteenth-century London judge, and his young assistant Jeremy Proctor investigate when a packet of incendiary letters is stolen from the London residence of a prominent official and turns up in the colony of Massachusetts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ALEJordan, Hillary
Summary: In 1946, city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm when two young men return from the war to work the land, Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers on the farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JORCooney, Ellen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic and intelligent, Sisi has everything -- except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England to hunt. She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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Summary: A second installment in a planned five-part series finds Harry despairing of a marriage to Emma and joining the Merchant Navy before assuming the identity of a fallen American soldier whose past proves even more turbulent than Harry's own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Archer 2012Dean, Debra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by Northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When her native state seceded in April 1861, Van Lew's convictions compelled her to defy the new Confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Lincoln White House, her courage would never waver, even as her wartime actions threatened not only her reputation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Summary: "Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend? When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, Alex Fisher, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Archer 2014Lindsey, Johanna
Summary: Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few lucky ones marry for love - but Tiffany Warren is marrying to end a feud. Honoring her mother's promise, Tiffany reluctantly travels west to meet her estranged father and his enemy's eldest son, rancher Hunter Callahan. But in the chaos of a train robbery, Tiffany seizes the opportunity to assume the identity of her father's new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Lady Irene Wyngate, who has sworn she'll never marry, says that she isn't attracted to Gideon, long-lost heir to the Earl of Radbourne, when she is asked to help civilize Gideon for marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: Livia Lacey accepts Prince Alex Prokov's marriage proposal, but once she learns his reason for marrying her, will she feel wickedly betrayed?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FEAGregory, Philippa.
Summary: Descended from a river goddess, Jacquetta has always had the gift of second sight. Wed to the Duke of Bedford, she is introduced to the world of learning and alchemy. When his death leaves her a wealthy young widow, Jacquetta marries the Duke's squire, Richard Woodville. They return to England and have a daughter, Elizabeth, for whom Jacquetta senses an extraordinary future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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Summary: Prim and proper lady's companion Emma Chegwidden throws caution to the winds when she unexpectedly ends up in the arms of the mysterious Reaper, a dangerous masked man on a mission of vengeance who rides under cover of darkness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DODDodd, Christina.
Summary: A young governess arrives prepared to take chage of six rebellious girls, but finds dealing with their handsome widowed father more difficult.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003