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Americans England Fiction Cornwall (England : County) Fiction Fathers and sons Fiction Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Fiction London (England) Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Reminiscing in old age Fiction Terrorism Fiction Women private investigators England London Fiction World War, 1914-1918 Veterans FictionWolk, Lauren
Summary: Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her rural Pennsylvania town. Until the day Betty Glengarry moves to town. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying at first seems isolated, things quickly spin out of control, escalating until Betty mysteriously disappears. As the town searches for Betty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WOLThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "The Great War is over, and Elizabeth and Gideon are busily planning their wedding and welcoming home old friends now discharged from the army. One of them, Captain Logan Carstens, the son and heir of a wealthy family, seems less than happy to be home and with good reason. While Logan was in France, he fell in love with a beautiful French woman named Noelle. He desperately wanted to propose,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thompson 2021Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Elizabeth Miles is preparing for her wedding to Gideon Bates, when a menacing shadow from her past threatens to destroy the life she has built for herself in this all-new Counterfeit Lady Novel from USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson. The Great War is over, and Elizabeth and Gideon are busily planning their wedding and welcoming home old friends now discharged from the army. One of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOWinspear, Jacqueline
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WINErdrich, Louise.
Summary: Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family--which includes Eva and four sons--and a singing club consisting of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDGrey, Zane
Summary: Keven Bell returns to Rogue River a war victim but not a hero. His bitterness deepens when he discovers that Gus Atwell has stolen his girl, ruined his reputation and prospered by his absence. He turns to the deep, fast-moving Rogue River and there he finds the will to fight against men who are as unscrupulous as he is honest, as crooked as he is straight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers 1930
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECarr, J. L. (Joseph Lloyd)
Summary: "Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summers, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's extraordinary depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2000
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Summary: Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons. In 1929, following an apprenticeship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out her shingle: "M. Dobbs, trade and personal investigations." She soon becomes enmeshed in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Winspear 2003Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS WINBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction BradfordKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Left with an extraordinary sensitivity that allows him to determine the lies and deceptions of everyday life with a mere touch after the Great War, Bennett Grey lives a reclusive life until he is called in by the British government to find a terrorist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINPouncey, Peter R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POUKing, Laurie R.
Summary: His existence shattered by the Great War, Bennett Grey is investigated by an American agent who thinks he may be useful for protecting national security.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M KINBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: James Falconer, a tycoon and a self-made man, seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC BRAGoddard, Robert
Summary: "Four years of horrific fighting have finally ended on the battlefield, but in the spring of 1919, Paris is filled with delegates from around the world who are still trying to hammer out the terms of peace. One such delegate is British diplomat Sir Henry Maxted, in charge of liaising with the Brazilians regarding seized ships. But before a deal is reached, Sir Henry turns up dead outside a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODFarrell, J. G. (James Gordon)
Summary: At the end of World War One, Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland and to his fiancee, Angela Spencer; however, her family's fortune and their once thriving hotel is in a state of decline, the major becomes interested in another woman, and violence in eastern Ireland begins to mount.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Farrell 2002Gautreaux, Tim.
Summary: Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World War I. Once there, Randolph finds that By is a shell of his former self--and that the murderous cartel controlling the mill's casino won't give them any peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUButler, Robert Olen
Summary: "A visionary and deeply moving novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's life, from his childhood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World War I to a newspaper career in Chicago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTSmith, Michael F. (Michael Farris)
Summary: A tale inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator from "The Great Gatsby" imagines the life of Nick Carraway before Gatsby, depicting a war-traumatized, heavily drinking man who embarks on a doomed journey of redemption from Paris to New Orleans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIWiggins, Marianne.
Summary: Falling in love during the Second World War, a soldier and a glassblower's daughter eventually have a son, who in adulthood finds his own love affair impacted by the fallout of the atomic age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIGSt. James, Simone.
Summary: "In 1920s England, a young woman of limited means and even less experience confronts the ghost of a mysterious serving maid.... Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STJWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: In 1931 London, when artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death before the opening of an exhibition of his work and police refuse to investigate, his journalist sister Georgina enlists the aid of psychologist Maisie Dobbs to uncover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Winspear 2006Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY WINGoddard, Robert
Summary: "Max is sent on his first mission for legendary German spy Fritz Lemmer, the very man who claims responsibility for the murder of Max's father. As Max travels to Scotland's remote Orkney Islands to collect a mysterious grey file from a German captain, he must keep his true allegiances in mind. Further complications arise when a fellow tourist recognizes Max from their school days and threatens...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODHuang, Christopher
Summary: "The year is 1924. The cobblestoned streets of St. James ring with jazz as Britain races forward into an age of peace and prosperity. London's back alleys, however, are filled with broken soldiers and still enshadowed by the lingering horrors of the Great War. Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders himself, Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Huang 2018Davies, Robertson
Summary: Relationship between three men who grew up together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1977