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African American women Fiction African American women librarians Biography Fiction African Americans Fiction Female friendship Fiction Greene, Belle da Costa Greene, Belle da Costa Fiction Large type books Passing (Identity) Fiction Pierpont Morgan Library Fiction Women librarians FictionDumas, Alexandre
Summary: In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMBenedict, Marie
Summary: The remarkable story of J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched the nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BENBenedict, Marie
Summary: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Benedict 2021Lapierre, Alexandra
Summary: New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of the country's most prestigious private libraries. It belongs to the magnate J.P. Morgan, darling of the international aristocracy and one of the city's richest men. Flamboyant, brilliant, beautiful, Belle is among New York society's most sought after intellectuals. She also hides a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAPBenedict, Marie
Summary: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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Summary: "In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadman & Holman Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTBenedict, Marie
Summary: "The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 318 FIC BENCohoe, Samantha
Summary: Growing up on a island where the powerful Prosper family controls both the magic and the spirits who inhibit it, eighteen-year-old Mae longs for magic of her own to impress her best friend Coco and her crush Miles, but when the spirits start inexplicably dying, Mae and her friends start to the unravel the mysteries of the island and a secret from Mae's past. Loosely based on Shakespeare's "The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COHCorti, Eugenio
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ignatius Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORChen, Da
Summary: Follows the divergent lives of two brothers, sons of a powerful general and born at the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, as their fates collide when they unwittingly fall for the same woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHECotter, 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 COTHe, Joan
Summary: The year is 414 of the Xin Dynasty, and chaos abounds. A puppet empress is on the throne. The realm has fractured into three factions and three warlordesses hoping to claim the continent for themselves. But Zephyr knows it's no contest. Orphaned at a young age, Zephyr took control of her fate by becoming the best strategist of the land and serving under Xin Ren, a warlordess whose loyalty to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HEYe, Chun
Summary: "After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUCoyle, Harold
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COYCooke, Elizabeth
Summary: "Snow had fallen in the night, and now the great house, standing at the head of the valley, seemed like a five-hundred-year old ship sailing in a white ocean. For the Cavendish family, Rutherford Park is much more than a place to call home. It is a way of life marked by rigid rules and lavish rewards, governed by unspoken desires. Lady of the house Octavia Cavendish lives like a bird in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCoble, Colleen
Summary: "Hannah Thomas left the South and all that was familiar to marry her beloved John. But the fact that she's never been quite accepted by his mother and sister and that she doesn't quite fit the strict Massachusetts Puritan community only becomes more difficult when John is killed in one of the first battles in the war for freedom. Hannah is allowed to continue to serve as lightkeeper for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COBCoble, Colleen
Summary: A young lighthouse keeper, recently widowed, faces war and deprivation to find happiness with a shipwrecked captain who's a spy for George Washington.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: "Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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Ewen, Pamela Binnings
Summary: The most beautiful, sought-after woman in Belle Epoque Paris, Emilienne sees her youth and beauty fade. As clouds of war begin darkening Europe, Emilienne's young friend, Coco Chanel, has other ideas of how to survive in a man's world. Strong ideas. Now, as Emilienne fights to survive, Coco's star rises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction EwenFoote, Kim Coleman
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Publisher / Publication Date: SJP LIT, a Zando Imprint 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOOCoble, Colleen.
Summary: "Lilly secures a job as maid in a grand manor in Austin, Texas. But even far from home, her past lurks around every corner.When Lilly Donnelly arrives at the Cutlers' famed Butterfly Mansion in 1899, the massive house and unfamiliar duties threaten to overwhelm her. Victorian Austin is lavish, highly political, and intimidating, but with the help of the other servants, Lilly resolves to prove...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION COBMoore, DC
Summary: "In a land rife with injustice, plague and peril, war rages between two kingdoms. A cryptic map delivered in a wooden box with a mysterious key holds a secret that eventually launches three teens on separate journeys, exploring a kingdom where all is not as it seems, intertwining their lives in ways they can't imagine. Hugh, a young blacksmith, struggles to lead a clandestine group after his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TK Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOSpera, Deb
Summary: "It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2019