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Christmas stories England Great Britain Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Fiction Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Fiction of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England Catherine 1485-1536 Fiction Physicians Fiction Sisters Sisters Fiction Sisters Juvenile fictionPenman, Sharon Kay.
Summary: Justin de Quincy is drawn into a conspiracy when he investigates a forged document that implicates Prince John in a plot to kill his brother King Richard, a scheme that also endangers the woman Justin serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENCussler, Clive
Summary: In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery. In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CUSTwain, Mark
Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRHunter, Stephen
Summary: In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNTaylor, Patrick
Summary: December 1965. 'Tis the season once again in the cozy Irish village of Ballybucklebo, which means that Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, his young colleague Barry Laverty, and their assorted friends, neighbors, and patients are enjoying all their favorite holiday traditions: caroling, trimming the tree, finding the perfect gifts for their near and dear ones, and anticipating a proper Yuletide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAYAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION AlcBarker, Pat
Summary: Held captive by the victorious Greeks, one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles' slave, forges alliances when she can with Priam's aged wife, the defiant Hecuba, and the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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Summary: "December 1965. Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, his colleague Barry Laverty, and their friends, neighbors, and patients are enjoying their favorite holiday traditions. There's even the promise of snow in the air, raising the prospect of a white Christmas. The season brings its fair share of challenges as well, including a black-sheep brother hoping to reconcile with his estranged family, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TAYGregory, 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 GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREMattick, Lindsay
Summary: A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Mattick 2016Alcott, Louisa May
Summary: "The March sisters have grown from little women to young adults. Now that the Civil War has ended, Meg is getting married, Beth still struggles to regain her health, and Jo and Amy are pursing their dreams, encountering love and heartbreak along the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCWeir, Alison
Summary: "A novel about Jane Seymour, the devout young woman who became the unwilling object of King Henry VIII's ardor--and the mother of his only son. In this third book in the epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed historian and bestselling author brings new insight to this dramatic story, showing how pure fear for her life determined Jane's actions. 25-year-old Jane Seymour wants nothing more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIO'Connor, Joseph
Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOOrczy, Emmuska Orczy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ORCLawton, John
Summary: England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The habits of the war baby youth-sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-are driving the old guard mad, and when a scandal reminiscent of the infamous Profumo affair rocks London, they fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWPerry, Anne
Summary: When a desperate woman comes to Daniel seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science can absolve him. Working together with Miriam, Daniel reveals Adwell's innocence by showing that an accidental fire caused the victim's death. But it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PERGraham, Winston
Summary: "Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. And when Morwenna Chynoweth, now governess to Elizabeth's eldest son, grows to love Drake Carne, Demelza's brother, the enduring rivalry between George and Ross finds a new focus for bitter enmity and conflict."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRALawton, John
Summary: In 1938, with Europe on the brink of war, Frederick Troy, recently promoted to Scotland Yards Murder Squad, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian enemy aliens, but as the bombs begin to fall on London, he finds himself investigating a series of murdered rabbis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWHeywood, Claire
Summary: "For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships-but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEYFraser, George MacDonald
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAWeir, Alison
Summary: Weir brings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first, devoted, and "true" queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEIFrazer, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2005