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Cullen, Lynn

Summary: "In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, calling Isabel "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUL

Barker, Pat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers Press 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAR

Chen, Katherine J.

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Chen

Iggulden, Conn.

Summary: Winter 1461--Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Yet in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IGG

McNees, Kelly O'Connor

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: In 1932, New York City, top reporter Lorena "Hick" Hickok starts each day with a front page byline--and finishes it swigging bourbon and planning her next big scoop. But an assignment to cover FDR's campaign--and write a feature on his wife, Eleanor--turns Hick's hard-won independent life on its ear. Soon her work, and the secret entanglement with the new first lady, will take her from New York...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCN

Bragg, Melvyn

Summary: "The tale Heloise and Abelard has captivated the attentions of romantics since the twelfth century. Heloise was a woman beyond her time: educated, fierce, and unafraid to be herself. When Peter Abelard, a radical philosopher determined to reform the archaic practices of the Church from within, becomes her private tutor, the attraction is overwhelming. Their passionate love affair soon becomes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Yi, Chi-min

Summary: American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YI

Benedict, Marie

5 holds on 8 copies

Summary: "A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Garwood, Haley Elizabeth.

Summary: This is a tale of a warrior, Empress Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England and granddaughter of William the Conqueeror.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Writers Block 1998

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: FAN GARWO

Giovinazzo, Diana

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte-ninth daughter and sixteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria-knows her position as a Hapsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her beloved country. But not yet. The Hapsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte's older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples, and will...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GIO

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: Gregory weaves the second installment of the Cousins' War trilogy that follows Lady Margaret Beaufort as she desperately tries to ensure her son Henry VII becomes the rightful heir to the throne.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GRE

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: "Follows Lady Margaret Beaufort as she desperately tries to ensure her son Henry VII becomes the rightful heir to the throne" -- from publisher's web site.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRE

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC GRE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Barnes, Margaret Campbell

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2009

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: P BAR

Gregory, Philippa.

Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRE

Jones, Ellen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JON

Chadwick, Elizabeth.

Summary: Fictionalizes the life of William Marshal, who is appointed tutor to Prince Henry, heir to the throne, after he rescues the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but William quickly learns of the dangers that are attached to his reward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Fredericks, Mariah

Summary: "When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight across the Atlantic, his father, Charles, Sr., is the country's golden boy, with his wealthy, lovely wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, by his side. But there's someone else in their household-Betty Gow, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Mallon, Thomas

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAL

O'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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCO

Maxwell, Robin

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005

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Penman, Sharon Kay.

Summary: A novel about the English king Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEN

Lagercrantz, David

Summary: "An electrifying thriller that opens with Alan Turing's suicide, and then opens out to take in a young detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life and the life of his country. It's 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR,while a witch-hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no one is surprised when a mathematician by the name of Alan...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAG

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS LAG

Reynolds, Jason

Summary: A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REY

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE REY

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