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Rabb, Jonathan.

Summary: In post-World War I Berlin, Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner investigates a series of murders in which five women--including revolutionary leader Rosa Luxemburg--turn up dead with identical markings etched into their backs.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAB

Runyan, Aimie K.

Summary: "December 1917. As World War I rages in Europe, twenty-four-year-old Ruby Wagner, the jewel in a prominent Philadelphia family, prepares for her upcoming wedding to a society scion. Like her life so far, it's all been carefully arranged. But when her beloved older brother is killed in combat, Ruby follows her heart and answers the Army Signal Corps' call for women operators to help overseas. As...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

Lu, Marie

Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH LU

George, Elizabeth

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GEO

Green, Jane

Summary: "Claire grew up in a small town, far from the glamor of London. On the cusp of adulthood, she yearns for the adventure and independence of a counterculture taking root across the world. When she's offered the chance to start anew in Morocco, in a palace where famous artists and musicians have been known to visit, she seizes the chance. Arriving in Marrakesh, she's quickly swept up in a world of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

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

Huntley, Swan.

Summary: Feeling empty in spite of the wealth that affords her a luxurious Manhattan apartment, designer accessories, and fine art, Catherine West pursues a relationship with the son of a family friend who her Alzheimer's patient mother only remembers negatively.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

Ellis, Mary

Summary: "When a wealthy socialite is found dead on her luxury yacht, her daughter Lainey hires private investigator Kate Weller to look into the matter. Agnes Westin created plenty of enemies during her climb to the top of society, many with a taste for revenge -- but did any of them feel strongly enough to kill her? Kate has another reason altogether for returning to Pensacola, Florida, the only town...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELL

Williams, Beatriz

Summary: "June 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva "Gin" Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to Oliver Anson Marshall, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of New York's most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime, the head of the notorious East Coast rum-running racket -- and Anson's mortal enemy -- turns up murdered at a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co., an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Brock, Amber

Summary: Enduring a life of lonely desperation in spite of her beauty, pedigree, and Park Avenue penthouse, Vera is drawn to a secretive French artist who is painting a mural in her coveted building, a relationship that reminds her about a talented forger from her past who nearly cost her everything.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Kwan, Kevin

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "Kevin Kwan, ... author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a ... new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KWA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KWA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kwan 2015

Turano, Jen

Summary: "Miss Permilia Griswold may have been given the opportunity of a debut into New York high society, but no one warned her she wasn't guaranteed to "take." After spending the last six years banished to the wallflower section of the ballroom, she's finally putting her status on the fringes of society to good use by penning anonymous society gossip columns under the pseudonym "Miss Quill." Mr....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TUR

DiSclafani, Anton

Summary: "From the nationally bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of 1950s Texas socialites and the one irresistible, controversial woman at the bright, hot center of it all. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIS

Vine, Barbara

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIN

Alcott, Kathleen.

Summary: Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways--in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart--the renters struggle to navigate daily existence, and soon come to realize that Edith's deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALC

Anthony, David

Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ANT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANT

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANT

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "Our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry. Isabel accepts an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but soon finds herself swept up in an all-too-familiar dilemma. David is the grandson of a Scottish clan chief and is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCC

Box, C. J.

Summary: Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett's job has many times put his wife and daughters in harm's way. Now the tables turn as his wife discovers something that puts the Pickett family in a killer's crosshairs.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOX

Clark, Bridie.

Summary: In this retelling of the classic Pygmalion, Lucy Ellis dreams of making it as a fashion designer but toils away on a Garment District assembly line. Man-about-town and bored anthropologist Wyatt Hayes IV has a score to settle with Cornelia Rockman, New York's reigning socialite. Can Wyatt fool Cornelia and her East Coast aristocracy into thinking a trailer-born nobody like Lucy is this year's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Polydoros, Aden

Summary: Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can't bring Chaya back from the dead, but he can use kishuf, an ancient and profane magic to create a golem in her image. A Nazi killer, to avenge her death. When Vera awakens, she can feel her violent purpose thrumming within her. But she can also feel glimpses of a human life lived, of stolen...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC POL

Aguilar, Sofia

Summary: "Taking readers all around the world, this exciting book introduces 25 brave, compassionate scientists, veterinarians, activists and others who fight for animal rights and conservation, and includes activities curated by conservationist Bindi Irwin"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Girls 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AGU

Green, Jane

Summary: In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s. From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Martin, Nancy

Summary: When her boss is found bound in pantyhose and shot execution style, Nora Blackbird launches an investigation that brings her face to face with some of the most glamorous suspects in the City of Brotherly Love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR

Wright-Ruiz, Kiera

Summary: "Even from Ramen's small shelf in the supermarket, they see spaghetti propaganda everywhere. They want to be celebrated, too. Maybe, Ramen misguidedly thinks, I have to change to be loved like that. "I want to be spaghetti!" they proclaim to the dismay of the rest of the instant noodle section."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE WRI

Hochschild, Adam

Summary: "From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leadersof her time"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOKES, ROSE PASTOR HOC

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Stokes

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