Irwin, Sophie
Summary: "When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season -- no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season--no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2023
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Summary: "A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love ... Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Kitty has never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books / Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IRWYalom, Irvin D.
Summary: Alfred Rosenberg, a Nazi ideologue, is convinced of German cultural greatness but he becomes haunted by the intellectual legacy of his hero, Goethe, when he discovers the poet's regard for the Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YALGwin, Minrose
Summary: A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gwin 2018Shrake, Edwin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John M. Hardy Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHRPears, Iain.
Summary: In this dazzling historical mystery, John Stone, financier and arms dealer, dies falling out of a window at his London home. The quest to uncover the truth behind his death plays out against the backdrop of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAPenner, Sarah
Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PENIrving, John
Summary: In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IRVAnthony, Iris.
Summary: Sister Juliana, Anna, and Princess Gisele--all in need of a miracle from Saint Catherine--are drawn into an epic struggle where only faith can survive as sinister forces plot to steal Saint Catherine's relic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANTMurdoch, Iris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MURTóibín, Colm
Summary: A provocative imagining of the later years of the mother of Jesus finds her living a solitary existence in Ephesus years after her son's crucifixion and struggling with guilt, anger, and feelings that her son is not the son of God and that his sacrifice was not for a worthy cause.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOIDjavadi, Négar
Summary: "Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2018
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Summary: In 1920s London, pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambles to survive in her gritty neighborhood. With her father in prison and her brother in debt to a crime syndicate, she struggles to protect her father's territory. Recruited by Mary Carr, Alice joins a female gang, the Forty Elephants, and tastes success. But it's not long before she wants more--no matter the cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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Summary: James Rich has a strange request for Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam: that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos. Having lost her job after a botched investigation, she has nothing but time. At her great-aunt's 150-year-old farmhouse Elizabeth uncovers a series of mysterious items, locked doors-- and hidden graves. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: A journalist discovers more than she expected when she is charged with delivering a box of photos to a relative she didn't know she had.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2018
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Summary: Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boldwood Books Ltd. 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC LIT (Book Club Kit - 8 paperbacks)Evan, Erin
Summary: Rome, A.D. 306. Emperor Constantine converts the Roman Empire to Christianity. Over the next two decades, his armies destroy pagan idols across Europe and the Middle East. England, A.D. 1830. Paleontologist Mary Anning writes to Sir Richard Owen, describing a fossil that she discovered in the cliffs of Lyme-Regis. She writes that the fossil is a large wing made of black bone. Montana, A.D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVACotter, Erin
Summary: In London, 1593, sixteen-year-old Will Hughes makes his living on Shakespeare's stage, but after the famous playwright Christopher Marlowe is murdered, he teams up with young Lord James Bloomsbury, and together the two hunt the elusive assassin as their forbidden feelings for each other ignite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COTLitteken, Erin
Summary: Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: In the last month of 1849, Hannah, pregnant by a traveling seed trader, arrives in a small village in the Swabian Mountains to find the father of her child. Helmut is due to be married to the town beauty in January and Hannah is determined to win his love for herself but the longer she stays, the more attached she becomes to both the town and to Helmut's fiancée.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2017Durst-Benning, Petra
Summary: "Germany, 1911. Certain things are expected of a woman. Defiant Mimi Reventlow has chosen to be the woman she wants to be. For now, that's the resident, if temporary, photographer in Laichingen. Here, against the odds, in a vocation uncommon for her gender, she maintains a struggling studio. She cares for her aging uncle and mentor. She's captured the affections of a roguish young local. And...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2020Durst-Benning, Petra
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017