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Summary: Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment and seeks revenge in Paris.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DUMJames, Syrie.
Summary: The discovery of an old chest in the attic of the Austen family home reveals secrets about Jane's private romantic life and the inspiration of her beloved works.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Trade 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Syrie.
Summary: Though poor, plain, and unconnected, Charlotte Bronte posses a deeply passionate side which she reveals only in her writings. It is the pages of her diary where Charlotte exposes her deepest feelings and desires--and the truth about her life, its triumps and shattering disappointments, her family, the inpiration behind her work, her scandalous secret passion for the man she can never have--and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMHawke, Simon.
Summary: Out of work because of the plague, fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and would-be thespian Symington Smythe become involved in the murder of a wealthy merchant trader by a young craftsman, a situation that inspires a new play.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWAw, Tash.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AWHawke, Simon.
Summary: Will Shakespeare and Symington "Tuck" Smythe land in the middle of a murder mystery when the bumbling detectives and their band of thespians furnish theatrical entertainment at a large wedding pageant and the bride turns up dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWBergren, Lisa Tawn.
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERAnderson, Laurie Halse.
Summary: After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AndCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Anderson 2008Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDBergren, 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: "It was supposed to be the highlight of her career, the pinnacle for which she'd worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreaking losses, and severe setbacks, this historic night of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TATEBergren, Lisa Tawn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2010
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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBergren, Lisa Tawn.
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 BERKullab, Samya
Summary: "A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers - all to find safety in the West."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 971 KULCase, Alison A.
Summary: In a reimagining of life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws' loyal servant, young Nelly Dean suffers heartache and betrayals at the hands of those she cherishes most and discovers what it is to know true sacrifice after a new heir is born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASEAbani, Chris.
Summary: Determined to solve a series of murders before he retires, detective Salazar turns to Sunil Singh, a South African transplant who specializes in psychopaths, to help determine if a pair of conjoined twins he apprehended are the killers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ABARussell, Mary Doria
Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Peace Conference convenes, there historic luminaries invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSCussler, Clive
Summary: Isaac Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time in the newest action-adventure novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017