Paxson, Diana L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAXRowe, Rosemary
Summary: April, CE 194. The tensions in the civil-war-torn Empire have come to Glevum now. Libertus's patron, Marcus Septimus, has received a letter from Druscilla Livia, a widowed cousin of his wife, seeking his protection. She has received an offer of marriage from a powerful Roman Senator, Hortius Valens, a man of cruel and unusual tastes, and she is in no position to refuse. She has run away . . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWIggulden, Conn.
Summary: "With an army made in his own image, Caesar begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain. Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged. And while Caesar and Brutus battle the armies of the wilderness, their politicial adversaries in Rome grow ever more powerful. For when the fighting is over, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGGScott, Manda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCOScott, Manda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCODownie, Ruth
Summary: In the far reaches of the Roman Empire, there are three certainties in life for Doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso: death, taxes, and angry barbarians. The hero finds himself trapped at the heart of an increasingly treacherous conspiracy involving theft, forgery, buried treasure, and the legacy of Boudica, the rebel queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWBradley, Marion Zimmer.
Summary: A love story during the Roman occupation of Britain in the 1st Century. The protagonists are a Druid girl in training to be a priestess, and a Roman officer pacifying her country. Love unites them, religion and politics separate them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994
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Summary: The eighth gripping novel in the bestselling Medicus series, in which Ruso and Tilla investigate the death of the wife of Ruso's friend in the sacred hot spring of Aquae Sulis. A scandal is threatening to engulf the popular spa town of Aquae Sulis (modern-day Bath). The wife of Ruso's best friend, Valens, has been found dead in the sacred hot spring, stabbed through the heart. Fearing the wrath...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWDownie, Ruth
Summary: Resuming his medical duties in the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain, Gaius Petreius Ruso investigates an outbreak of mysterious injuries and deaths and discovers possible links to the revered Centurion Geminus and the long-awaited Emperor Hadrian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWScarrow, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCADownie, Ruth
Summary: Tending to the reluctant builders of Hadrian's Great Wall in the aftermath of a costly rebellion, the medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, investigate the disappearances of Ruso's clerk and the son of a native family, an effort that is complicated by rising tensions between the Britons and Romans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWBaxter, Stephen.
Summary: A first installment of a four-book alternate history epic traces the rise of a powerful family whose successes are linked to an ancient prophecy that guides their financial and political choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXSpringer, Nancy
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 SPRScott, Caroline
Summary: "With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat... England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Stella Douglas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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Summary: In medieval England, Mazy tries to find her place in the world and meets a friendly knight, Sir Berenger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICPrice, Tirzah
Summary: Eighteen-year-old aspiring chemist Elinor Dashwood and her younger sister Marianne, a budding detective, work together to solve the mystery of their father's murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PRIBalogh, Mary
Summary: Lady Jennifer Arden and Ben Ellis know that a match between them is out of the question. A duke's sister certainly cannot marry the bastard son of an earl. Except sometimes, love can find a way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours. Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent--not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023