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Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Summary: Controlled by a domineering mother and an over-opinionated family, Valency Stirling awakens on her twenty-ninth birthday resigned to dull existence. Her only escape is the Blue Castle of her imagination. But when an unexpected letter changes everything, Valency breaks the bonds of fear and finds purpose in a whole new life that turns the Blue Castle of her dreams into a reality.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MON

Dickerson, Melanie

Summary: In medieval England, Mazy tries to find her place in the world and meets a friendly knight, Sir Berenger.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Dickerson, Melanie

Summary: In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Elyce escapes unscrupulous King Conrad by taking a sleeping potion, and after Sir Gerard wakes her with a kiss they begin their journey to Prague in the dead of winter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Wood, Tracey Enerson

Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOO

Humphreys, Helen

Summary: A young woman gardner Gwen Davis flees to the Devon countryside where she will be in charge of a Land Army group of young girls who are to plant food crops on a country estate. At the estate along with the girls a regiment of Canadian soldiers live and form friendships, etc. Gwen comes to know herself and others.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Summary: "The March sisters have grown from little women to young adults. Now that the Civil War has ended, Meg is getting married, Beth still struggles to regain her health, and Jo and Amy are pursing their dreams, encountering love and heartbreak along the way"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALC

Hand, Cynthia

Summary: Refusing a job with the Society for the Relocation of Wayward Spirits, Jane Eyre heads to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for Mr. Rochester.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAN

Forsyth, Kate

Summary: Set in Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies. May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Forsyth

Enerson Wood, Tracey

Summary: "Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson and sixty-five inexperienced young nurses arrive on the front lines of WWI to find chaos. With 1,300 soldiers stuffed into a facility built for 500, providing even the most basic care is challenging-and Julia quickly learns that male doctors see her as a threat to their authority. Based on a true story, The War Nurse follows Julia through WWI in France,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Enerson Wood

Nielsen, Jennifer A.

Summary: From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistic Day in 1918, the story follows the fate of five young people on both sides of the conflict-- each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC NIE

Cameron, Sharon

Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Schrefer, Eliot

Summary: They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, there's no way an impoverished musician can make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside patron. Young gossip columnist Marcel Proust takes Léon under his wing, and the boys game their way through an extravagant new world. When the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Wingate, Lisa

Summary: "Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Smith, Colby Cedar

Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Blackwell, Juliet

Summary: "On a freelance assignment documenting the antique carousels of Paris, American photographer Cady Drake longs to restore the dilapidated carousel at Château Clement. Digging deeper into the past unearthing century-old photographs of the carousel and its creators, she might be the one person who can bring the past to light and reunite a family torn apart"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Blackwell 2019

Lovering, Carola

Summary: "Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips - she's smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family - she's also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother's death when she was eleven, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result. But now Burke-handsome, older, and more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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Mustian, Kelly

Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC MUS BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperbacks)

Mustian, Kelly

Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MUS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUS

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mustian 2021

Lowry, Lois

Summary: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC LOW

Lee, Mackenzi

Summary: A young British lord embarks on an unforgettable grand tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush in this eighteenth-century romantic adventure for the modern age.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEE

Winspear, Jacqueline

Summary: It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie Dobbs has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress's old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman's mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIN

Dickerson, Melanie

Summary: Orphan Violet and knight Sir Merek team up to fight against the villainous Baron Dunham and corruption in the kingdom, while also navigating their growing feelings for each other.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEA

McMahon, Katharine.

Summary: The daughter of an eccentric chemist, young Emilie Selden is a scientist in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishment, until an encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home and her work.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCM

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