Chevalier, Tracy
Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Summary: In 1914, a young woman named Mary Russell meets a retired beekeeper on the Sussex Downs. His name is Sherlock Holmes. And although he may have all the Victorian "flaws" listed above, the Great Detective is no fool, and can spot a fellow intellect even in a fifteen-year-old woman. So, at first informally, then consciously, he takes Mary as his apprentice. They work on a few small local cases,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books, . 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Mystery KinGrimes, Martha.
Summary: Presents two novellas, including "Hotel Paradise," an exploration of the emotional isolation and identity quest of adolescence, and "The Train Now Departing," in which the female protagonist is embroiled in darkness by the man in her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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Summary: Promoting themselves from genteel poverty to fame, two beautiful sisters, one a daring fashion designer and the other a writer of scandalous novels, become each other's most staunch supporter and harshest critic in the face of misunderstandings and confidences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARÓlafur Jóhann Ólafsson.
Summary: In this beautifully crafted novel, Icelandic writer Olaf Olafsson tells the moving story of a woman who, in the remaining months of her life, undertakes an extraordinary emotional journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2000
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Summary: Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard and detective sergeant Barbara Havers are approached by a member of Parliament with a request to investigate the supposed suicide of a constituent's son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Summary: While waitressing at the Hopwicke Country House Hotel as a favor for a friend, Jude becomes involved in murder when a member of the Pillars of Sussex, a group of local businessmen, is found dead and Jude suspects foul play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2004
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Summary: They call her 'Amber the Untouched' throughout the Disputed Lands - a chaste, golden-haired beauty who fears the remarkable love that was prophesied at her birth--and the death that must inevitably follow. Now Duncan has come to her in darkness, as was foretold - a wounded warrior with no memory, seared by passion's fire and irresistibly drawn to the innocent enchantress who divines truth with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Summary: August 1923. All is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex as Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. But the peace quickly disappears as out of the past comes Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the couple a lovely inlaid box with a tattered roll of stained papyrus inside. The evening following...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace 2012
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Summary: Chronicles the lives of a middle-class family whose values are constantly at war with its passions and love affairs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2002
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Summary: As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir in the absence of men and instead carry on singing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Innocent Tess Durbeyfield's maidenhood is stolen by the dishonorable Alex d'Urberville and yet she is able to find true love with Angel Clare; their happiness is later shattered, for when her past is revealed, Clare rejects her love until it is too late ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1994
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Summary: In a second installment of the Harte family saga, Evan considers telling her father the truth of their heritage, while Linnet and Tessa consider an uneasy truce, and India wonders about her new love's secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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Summary: A poignant portrayal of the thoughts and events that comprise one day in a woman's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
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Summary: In this Regency comedy of manners self-reliant Lydia Templeton rejects the county's most eligible bachelor but years later, when her ward proves surprisingly tricky to manage, discovers that her own spinster's heart may not be the closed book she thought it was.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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Summary: Fraught with insecurity about her husband's increasingly distant behavior, Louise Canova obtains a faded fashion guide from a second-hand bookshop and discovers that its lessons have unexpected results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 1993
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Summary: Housecleaning is hard work.but when Lois decides to take a little break in the peaceful atmosphere of a small chapel, she discovers a dead body-dressed in a suit of armor...and winds up with even more work to do. Since her job is tailor-made for snooping, Detective Inspector Cowgill convinces Lois to polish up her sleuthing skills once again, against her husband's wishes. But when she discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Publishing Group 2004