![The old lion [CD book] : a novel of Theodore Roosevelt](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/274538@2x.jpg)
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by
Jeff Shaara
Summary: From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, from the waning days of the rugged frontier of a young country to the emergence of a modern, industrial nation exerting its power on...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F SHAARA
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
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by
Jeff Shaara
Summary: From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, from the waning days of the rugged frontier of a young country to the emergence of a modern, industrial nation exerting its power on...
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BOOK
Call #: F SHAARA
Location: Adult Fiction
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by
Thomas Keneally
(599)
Summary: "Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve...
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BOOK
Call #: F KENEALLY
Location: Adult Fiction
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Staff Pick
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by
Ken Follett
Series:
Century Trilogy - #2
(151,855)
Summary: Continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II.
BOOK
Call #: F FOLLETT
Location: Adult Fiction
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Staff Pick
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by
Ken Follett
Series:
Century Trilogy - #1
(309,727)
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
BOOK
Call #: F FOLLETT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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![Winter of the world [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/68201@2x.jpg)
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by
Ken Follett
Series:
Century Trilogy - #2
(151,855)
Summary: This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F FOLLETT
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
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![Fall of giants [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/50026@2x.jpg)
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by
Ken Follett (read by John Lee )
Series:
Century Trilogy
(309,722)
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families-- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F FOLLETT
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Francis Spufford
(4,744)
Summary: Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages -- after all,...
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BOOK
Call #: F SPUFFORD
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Georgie Blalock
(1,329)
Summary: Valerie de Vere Cole, the niece of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, makes her deep curtsy to the King and Queen of England, but she knows war is imminent. Reinventing herself as a carefree and...
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BOOK
Call #: F BLALOCK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Alix E. Harrow
(117,991)
Summary: In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the...
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BOOK
Call #: F HARROW
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ruta Sepetys
(44,960)
Summary: Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren't free to dream; they are bound by rules and force....
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BOOK
Call #: YA F SEPETYS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Paul Vidich
(1,868)
Summary: Berlin, 1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee...
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BOOK
Call #: F VIDICH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Allison Montclair
Series:
Sparks & Bainbridge Mysteries - #5
Summary: In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture - The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are Miss Iris...
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BOOK
Call #: F MONTCLAIR
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Susan Meissner
Summary: California, 1938. When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser's daughter. She...
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Call #: F MEISSNER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Hernan Díaz
Summary: In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in...
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BOOK
Call #: F DIAZ
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Rhys Bowen
Series:
Royal Spyness Mysteries - #17
Summary: Georgie, back home at her estate in Eynsleigh, impatiently awaits the birth of her baby. But she has plenty to occupy her: her new chef, Pierre, has arrived from Paris, and Sir Hubert, who owns...
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Call #: F BOWEN
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Danielle Steel
Summary: It's the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be...
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BOOK
Call #: F STEEL
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Michael F. Smith
(3,442)
Summary: Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was in the trenches and tunnels of World War I. Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed, Nick delays his return...
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BOOK
Call #: F SMITH
Location: Adult Fiction
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![The year we left home [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/238704@2x.jpg)
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by
Jean Thompson
(6,509)
Summary: In 1973, the Erickson family of Grenada, Iowa, gathers for the wedding of their eldest daughter, Anita. The bride wants nothing more than to raise a family in her hometown, while her brother Ryan...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F THOMPSON
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mary Doria Russell
(6,748)
Summary: In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their...
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BOOK
Call #: F RUSSELL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Adele Myers
(14,745)
Summary: Maddie Sykes is a promising seamstress who's just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina -- the tobacco capital of the South -- where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years of war...
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BOOK
Call #: F MYERS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kelly McWilliams
(1,584)
Summary: As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were separated after the lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now Charlie is a young Black organizer in...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F MCWILLIAMS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Emma Seckel
(1,380)
Summary: The islanders have only three rules: don't stick your nose where it's not wanted, don't mention the war, and never let your guard down during October. Leigh Welles has not set foot in on the island...
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BOOK
Call #: F SECKEL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kate Manning
(2,186)
Summary: In the early 1900s, Sylvie Pelletier, in a voice spiked with sly humor, recounts leaving her family's snowbound mountain cabin to work in a manor house for the Padgetts, owners of the marble-mining...
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Call #: F MANNING
Location: Adult Fiction
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by
Marie Benedict
(5,762)
Summary: Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters -- each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next -- dominate the English scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family...
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BOOK
Call #: F BENEDICT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
James Alan McPherson
(1,691)
Summary: A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, it is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define.
BOOK
Call #: F MCPHERSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rhys Bowen
Series:
Molly Murphy Mysteries - #19
(942)
Summary: New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich...
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BOOK
Call #: F BOWEN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Meagan Church
(766)
Summary: Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl. For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is as simple as it is free. Devoted to her...
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BOOK
Call #: F CHURCH
Location: Adult Fiction
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by
Kate Klise
Summary: On a rainy morning in 1947, a small gray kitten wandered into the Hamilton Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, two days before the Greater St. Louis Cat Club Show. A stray kitten. A fancy hotel. A serious...
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BOOK
Call #: J P HISTORY KLISE
Location: New Junior Picture Books - History
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Hope Larson
(2,156)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Vonceil cannot wait for her older brother Elber to come home to the family farm in Oklahoma after serving on the front lines of World War I. But the young man who greets her at the...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL LAR
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Anne Perry
Series:
Elena Standish - #5
Summary: Not far from the sprawling grounds of Wyndham Hall, longtime MI6 agent John Repton's body is found with a bullet hole through the heart. The corpse's proximity to the estate sends ripples of concern...
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BOOK
Call #: F PERRY
Location: New Adult Fiction
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by
Laura Thompson
(2,437)
Summary: It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant and award winning biographer, Laura Thompson now turns her sharp eye...
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BOOK
Call #: B CHRISTIE
Location: Adult Biographies
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![King of the mild frontier [CD book] : an ill-advised autobiography](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/20439@2x.jpg)
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by
Chris Crutcher (read by Chris Crutcher)
(1,514)
Summary: Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as "Ironman" and "Whale Talk," as well as short stories, tells of growing up in Cascade, Idaho, and becoming a writer.
AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK B CRUTCHER YA
Location: YA CD Books Biography
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