![Year of wonders [downloadable audiobook] / [a novel of the plague]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76224@2x.jpg)
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Geraldine Brooks
(144,571)
Summary: When the plague visits an isolated village in the English countryside, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful...
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![Moon over Manifest [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/57151@2x.jpg)
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Clare Vanderpool
Summary: Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out...
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![Someone to watch over me [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/200616@2x.jpg)
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Lisa Kleypas
Summary: Rescued from the icy waters of the Thames by the enigmatic Grant Morgan, one of London's most unattainable bachelors, a lovely amnesiac--who is told that she is the notorious Vivien Rose...
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![The great alone [eAudio] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/182282@2x.jpg)
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Kristin Hannah
(410,244)
Summary: Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future...
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![Noir [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/188015@2x.jpg)
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Christopher Moore
(11,362)
Summary: From repeat New York Times best selling author Christopher Moore comes a brand new standalone novel set on the mean streets of San Francisco in the aftermath of World War II. Absurdly outrageous,...
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![The glass ocean [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/191930@2x.jpg)
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Beatriz Williams
(13,557)
Summary: A "historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century--two deep in the past, one in the present--to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania... As the...
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![Jepp, who defied the stars [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/72713@2x.jpg)
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Katherine Marsh
(1,431)
Summary: Jepp, a teenage dwarf living in 16th century Europe, leaves home to seek his destiny.
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![Etiquette & espionage [downloadable audiobook]](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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Gail Carriger
(43,879)
Summary: In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is suprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
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![A forgotten place [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/191931@2x.jpg)
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Charles Todd
(2,894)
Summary: Working in an amputee clinic in Wales, Bess Crawford advocates on behalf of disabled former soldiers who endure life-risking conditions in coal mines while she tries to discern the whereabouts of a missing Army captain.
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![The reckoning [eAudio] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/194546@2x.jpg)
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John Grisham
(74,923)
Summary: Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October...
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![The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/197133@2x.jpg)
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Stuart Turton
(154,483)
Summary: Aiden Bishop must solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle in order to escape the curse in a world filled with enemies where nothing and no one are quite what they seem. There are eight days, and eight...
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![The golden tresses of the dead [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/200378@2x.jpg)
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C. Alan Bradley
(13,025)
Summary: "Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop's Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce's sister Ophelia is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon....
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![Bottomland [eAudio] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/175459@2x.jpg)
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Michelle Hoover
Summary: At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland-the anticipated second novel from Michelle Hoover-follows the Hess family in the years after World War I as they attempt to rid themselves of the anti-German...
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![Varina [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/188022@2x.jpg)
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Charles Frazier
(10,958)
Summary: "Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a...
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![White houses [eAudio] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/188023@2x.jpg)
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Amy Bloom
(16,219)
Summary: Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most...
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![The summer wives [eAudio] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/189074@2x.jpg)
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Beatriz Williams
(34,373)
Summary: In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World...
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![Warlight [eAudio] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/190226@2x.jpg)
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Michael Ondaatje
(37,530)
Summary: "It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel, are seemingly abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an...
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![The air you breathe [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/191856@2x.jpg)
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Frances de Pontes Peebles
(6,403)
Summary: "The story of an intense female friendship fueled by admiration and affection, envy and pride -- and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other." -- Provided by publisher
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![An act of villainy [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/191867@2x.jpg)
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Ashley Weaver
Summary: Walking through London's West End after a night at the theater, Amory Ames and her husband Milo run into wealthy investor and former actor Gerard Holloway. Holloway and his wife Georgina are old...
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![Transcription [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/191869@2x.jpg)
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Kate Atkinson
(44,407)
Summary: In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist...
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![The tattooist of Auschwitz [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/191871@2x.jpg)
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Heather Morris
(508,847)
Summary: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work...
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![Hello stranger [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/183719@2x.jpg)
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Lisa Kleypas
(16,818)
Summary: Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, is as daring and independent as any man. Yet she has never been tempted to embark on an affair, until now. Ethan Ransom, a former detective...
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![The winter soldier [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/200626@2x.jpg)
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Daniel Mason
(7,932)
Summary: "Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a...
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![Milkman [eAudio] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/208258@2x.jpg)
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Anna Burns
(43,711)
Summary: In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.
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![The Count of Monte Cristo [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42978@2x.jpg)
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Alexandre Dumas
(571,142)
Summary: For Edmond Dantes, life couldn't be better. At 19, he is soon to be captain of his own ship and about to be married to his true love, Mercedes. But his life is suddenly turned upside down when on his...
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![The eternal mercenary [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44713@2x.jpg)
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Barry Sadler
(751)
Summary: When they flew Casey into the hospital at Nha Trang, the medics were sure he would die. That he didn't was only the first surprise. The second, and bigger one, was that Casey had been fighting for...
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![The damned [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/48730@2x.jpg)
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Barry Sadler
Summary: In a state of near despair, Casca leaves behind the now dreaded gates of the Persian Empire, and makes his way back to the Northlands. After his ordeal in "The Hold," Casca is summoned back from his...
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![Desert mercenary [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/49934@2x.jpg)
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Barry Sadler
(159)
Summary: Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages, & wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, unable to die, and waiting for Him to return. Casca...
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![The Count of Monte Cristo [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61138@2x.jpg)
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Alexandre Dumas
(764,571)
Summary: The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau...
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![Finding Langston [eAudio]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/208183@2x.jpg)
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Lesa Cline-Ransome
(2,475)
Summary: Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
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![Secrets of an accidental duchess [downloadable audiobook] / a Donovan novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/71563@2x.jpg)
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Jennifer Haymore
(629)
Summary: In the second entry in Jennifer Haymore's Donovan series, when soon-to-be Duke Max is offered a wager to seduce the alluring Olivia Donovan or forfeit part of his fortune, he can't resist-but falling in love with Olivia wasn't part of the plan.
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![Dangerous in diamonds [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/72654@2x.jpg)
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Madeline Hunter
(3,397)
Summary: In book four of the Rarest Blooms series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Madeline Hunter, when the outrageously wealthy Duke of Castleford is bequeathed a small piece of property...
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![New York [downloadable audiobook] / the novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/46486@2x.jpg)
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Edward Rutherfurd
(33,787)
Summary: The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich,...
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![The 19th wife [eAudio] / a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/55082@2x.jpg)
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David Ebershoff
(56,348)
Summary: "Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain." Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff's THE 19TH WIFE combines epic historical fiction...
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Julie Garwood
(13,087)
Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood's latest audiobook in the Buchanan series, the follow-up to last year's blockbuster Shadow Dance.Julie Garwood returns to her historical roots in...
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![Cathedral of the sea [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/43549@2x.jpg)
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Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra
(41,457)
Summary: A #1 international bestseller, this highly anticipated novel is an unforgettable fresco of the Middle Ages in Catalonia. During a time where feudal lords ruled lowly serfs, a father and son struggle...
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![American dreams [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44116@2x.jpg)
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John Jakes
Summary: Chronicling America during the turbulent period from 1906 to 1917, John Jakes captures the lives of the men and women who colored a nation's future. American dreams follows the children of the...
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![Days of infamy [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44123@2x.jpg)
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Newt Gingrich
Summary: Pearl Harbor is in utter chaos after the unexpected third strike by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Forces, ordered into the attack by Admiral Yamamoto. Yamamoto is horrified to discover that the Foreign...
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![The Boleyn inheritance [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44656@2x.jpg)
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Philippa Gregory
(83,956)
Summary: Three women who share one fate: The Boleyn Inheritance: Anne of Cleves: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead....
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![The constant princess [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/44665@2x.jpg)
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Philippa Gregory
(152,113)
Summary: "I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known ... and I will be Queen of England." Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her...
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