Freud, Esther
Summary: 1914. In the village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast young Thomas Maggs befriends mysterious Scotsman and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh whom the locals call Mac. Just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to bloom, war with Germany is declared and as the war weighs increasingly heavily on the community, the villagers on the home front become increasingly suspicious of Mac and his curious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREGrove, Fred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROFarid, Diana
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in--her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother's footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix's past lymphoma surges...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARStewart, Fred Mustard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC StewaMarske, Freya
Summary: "Secrets! Magic! Enemies to. . .something more? Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual hanging over every magician in Britain, he's drawn reluctantly back into that world. Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MARField, Rachel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEFord, Jamie
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FordFord, Richard
Summary: In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: A story based on true events recreates a female slave's struggle for freedom in the decades before the Civil War as she is freed by her owner, kidnapped by slave catchers and returned to Virginia, and brings criminal charges against her kidnappers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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Summary: "Dorothy Moy channels her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. When her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has come to haunt her. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother's listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday, William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape/Random House Audio 2013
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Summary: Carlisle, an enigmatic drifter, has wandered from California to South Carolina and is headed back west when he happens on the small South Dakota town of Salamander. In the local diner, he meets one woman, the unhappily married Gally Deveraux, and then becomes entranced by another, ethereal outsider Susanna Benteen, whom he catches sight of one night. Carlisle decides to make his home in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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Summary: When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, a man embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORWatson, Brad.
Summary: Having won and lost the woman he has loved since seeing her do a naked cartwheel in 1916, Finus Bates wonders if the colorful characters from their hometown hold the secrets to her elusive character.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATMcLelland, Brad
Summary: In an 1850s Wild West filled with supernatural beasts and magic-wielding outlaws, Keech and his band of fellow orphans, seeking revenge for their killed families, search for Bonfire Crossing, the Osage land that holds clues to the wherabouts of the all-powerful Char Stone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction McLelland 2019Morgan, Robert
Summary: Fleeing the South Carolina plantation where he has spent his entire life, eighteen-year-old slave Jonah Williams uses the stars to escape to the North and is pursued by both slave hunters and a free-spirited fellow slave who believes Jonah can help her secure her own freedom.
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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 MORFrazier, Sundee T.
Summary: "Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man voice that lets him say what he wants, when he wants--especially to his crush Millie Takazawa, and Gary Ratliff, who constantly puts him down. But the thought of starting high school is only making his stutter worse. And Melvin's growing awareness that racism is everywhere--not just in the South where a boy his age has been brutally killed by two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC FRAGeagley, Brad
Summary: A mystery inspired by ancient transcripts documenting the "Harem Conspiracy of Ramses III" finds investigations clerk Semerket exploring clues to the murder of a Theban princess and discovering a threat on the life of Pharaoh Ramses III.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAGraft, Brad
Summary: "A Lion's Share is the second book in the Brotherhood of the Mamluks trilogy. The story is set in the 13th Century Middle East, during the Seventh Crusade. Told from the Egyptian perspective, it is a rare view of life among the Mamluks--elite Muslim warriors largely unheralded in the West--whose ranks ousted the Crusaders and Mongols from the Levant, preserving Islam"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sager Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRABryan, Ashley.
Summary: Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017