Dreiser, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buccanneer Books 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DREHunt, Linda
Summary: In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to save her family's farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara's curling iron, set out on foot from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 HUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom HuntMacColl, Gail
Summary: Read about a unique set of American women cutting a swath through stodgy 19th century British aristocracy. The book covers not just who they were but the lows and the triumphs of their inter-continental marriages. Also included are many fascinating details on how they dressed and what they had to go through.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 974.7104 MACVaule, Rosamond B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine, Publisher 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.9973 VAUSummary: In the collection of novellas, set between the years 1868-1917, four African American women fight tirelessly for change while finding love in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Maroon Ash Publishing] 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAUNoble, Shelley
Summary: "Philomena Amesbury, Dowager Countess of Dunbridge, was not about to let a little thing like the death of her husband ruin her social life. She's come to New York City, ready to take the dazzling world of Gilded Age Manhattan by storm. She finds excitement when an early morning visitor arrives, begging for her help. After all, Lady Phil has been known to be useful in a crisis. Especially when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NOBMaxwell, Alyssa
Summary: Responding to a frantic call from her cousin, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Emma Cross arrives at the Marble House mansion and learns Consuelo's mother, Alva, is forcing her into marriage with the Duke of Marlborough. Her mother has even called in a fortune teller to assure Consuelo of a happy future. But the future is short-lived for the fortune teller, who is found dead by her crystal ball, strangled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 SCHStewart, Amy
Summary: "The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters... Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into theHackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. The strong-willed, patriotic Edna Heustis, who left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEStewart, Amy
Summary: Trailblazing Constance's hard-won job as deputy sheriff is on the line in Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, the fourth installment of Amy Stewart's Kopp Sisters series. After a year on the job, New Jersey's first female deputy sheriff has collared criminals, demanded justice for wronged women, and gained notoriety nationwide for her exploits. But on one stormy night, everything falls apart. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEStewart, Amy
Summary: "In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart's clever and original Kopp sisters series, the sisters get some military discipline drilled into them--whether they're ready or not--as the U.S. prepares to enter World War I"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Stewart 2019Fowler, Therese
Summary: Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan, Alva navigates society snubs and dark undercurrents in the lives of her in-laws and friends while testing the limits of her ambitious rule-breaking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWSears, Stephen W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Heritage Pub. Co. : book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster 1975
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 AMEStewart, Amy.
Summary: Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. The strong-willed, patriotic Edna Heustis, who left home to work in a munitions factory, certainly doesn't belong behind bars. And sixteen-year-old runaway Minnie Davis, with few prospects and fewer friends, shouldn't be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEFowler, Therese
Summary: Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOWSummary: A comedic and satirical look at the lives and times of Bellacourt sisters Lillian and Beatrice as well as the rest of the Bellacourts, the fictional first family of early 20th century Newport, Rhode Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016