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Diana. Gabaldon
(1,977)
Summary: The second volume of a comprehensive companion guide to each book in the "Outlander" series includes a complete chronology of the series, a guide to research sources, a Scottish glossary and...
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Call #: 813.54 GAB
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Series:
Undercover Ladies Series
(1,087)
Summary: Melvin Hitchcock of the 'Hitching Post Mail-Order Bride Catalog' isn't dishonest -- not exactly. If he tweaks his clients' applications a bit, it's because he's looking out for their best interests....
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F BRIDE
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brian Selznick , illustrator
(17,526)
Summary: The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant...
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Call #: YA F SELZNICK
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Gary Paulsen
(416)
Summary: During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a five-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
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Stewart Ross
Summary: In Ancient Egypt, the lives of thirteen-year-olds Methen and Madja are endangered when they stumble across a group of grave robbers who are plundering the pyramids.
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by
Kate Alcott
(27,816)
Summary: A spirited woman survives the sinking of the Titanic only to find herself embroiled in the tumultuous aftermath of that great tragedy. Tess is one of the last people to escape into a lifeboat. When...
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by
Samantha James
Series:
McBride Trilogy
(762)
Summary: "Lady Maura O'Donnell swore to her father on his deathbed that she'd recover the Circle of Light, an enchanted Celtic relic that had brought the family prosperity until it was stolen a century...
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Call #: PB JAM
Location: Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
P. D James
(93,320)
Summary: It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found...
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by
Jamie Ford
(269,138)
Summary: Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
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by
Michael McGarrity
Series:
American West Trilogy - #2
(931)
Summary: Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the...
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Call #: F MCGARRITY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Melanie Benjamin
(67,821)
Summary: Despite her own major achievements--she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States--Anne Morrow Lindbergh is viewed merely as Charles Lindbergh's wife. The fairy-tale life...
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by
J. M Sidorova
(379)
Summary: Cursed with longevity and an immunity to the cold, a lovelorn eighteenth-century Russian noble traverses two hundred years of history and three continents while investigating the truth about his strange physiology.
BOOK
Call #: F SIDOROVA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Anne Perry
(3,064)
Summary: When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.
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by
Kate Kerrigan
Series:
Ellis Island Novels (Kate Kerrigan)
(1,229)
Summary: "When her beloved husband suddenly dies, young Ellie Hogan decides to leave Ireland and return to New York, where she worked in the 1920s. She hopes that the city will distract her from her anguish....
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Call #: F KERRIGAN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
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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by
Conn Iggulden
(6,210)
Summary: The assassination of Julius Caesar sets in motion political intrigue, epic battle, and righteous retribution throughout the ancient Roman empire as Marc Antony and Gaius Octavian marshal their forces...
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Shelby Hiatt
Summary: After moving from a small town in Ohio to Panama while her father takes part in building the Panama Canal, a fifteen-year-old girl yearning for new experiences meets Federico, a Spanish aristocrat...
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by
Robin Oliveira
(22,873)
Summary: Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine - and run away from her recent...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F OLIVEIRA
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
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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by
Malka Drucker
(713)
Summary: In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.
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by
Melissa Jagears
Series:
Teaville Moral Society Series - #1
(970)
Summary: While Lydia King's reasons for joining the Teaville Moral Society might be suspect to some members, her heart is in the right place. Because of her father's debts and her mother's persistent illness,...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F JAGEARS
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kate Breslin
(949)
Summary: In 1917, Evelyn Marche is just one of many women who has been widowed by the war. A British nurse trapped in German-occupied Brussels, she spends her days working at a hospital and her nights as a...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F BRESLIN
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lynn N. Austin
(1,552)
Summary: "Despite Victorian society's strict rules for women, Rebecca and Flora Hawes' desire for adventure has led them to the Sinai Desert. Accompanied by their young butler and their maid, the sisters...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F AUSTIN
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lynn N. Austin
Series:
Waves Of Mercy - #2
(1,769)
Summary: "In 1890s Chicago, socialite Anna Nicholson can't seem to focus on her upcoming marriage. When she learns new information about her past, she hires Pinkerton detectives. But when unflattering stories...
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Call #: LP F AUSTIN
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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John Ellsworth
(1,902)
Summary: "May 1940 - Paris. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Claire hears the devastating news: the German army has invaded her homeland, and her beloved Paris has fallen. Within months, her life is...
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Call #: F ELLSWORTH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra
(41,459)
Summary: Set in 14th century Barcelona, the 80-year construction of the Church of Santa Maria affects the lives of the citizens, those who devoted their lives to building it, and those who were sheltered there.
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Lynn N. Austin
Summary: Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked...
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Call #: LP F AUSTIN
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Kerry Greenwood
(485)
Summary: Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams. Ptah-hotep, a young...
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Carolyn Reeder
(2,425)
Summary: At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers...
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Call #: J F REEDER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Diana Gabaldon
(13,558)
Summary: A guide to the Outlander series, time-travel romances featuring Claire Beauchamp Randall, a Red Cross nurse. Included are synopses of novels, biographies, family trees and pronunciation help.
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Call #: 813.54 GAB
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Patti Sheehy
Series:
Frank Mederos Series
(634)
Summary: This novel is based on the life story of Frank Mederos, who was born and raised in Guanabacoa, Cuba. Through a number of childhood experiences and the influence of his grandfather, he grew to...
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Call #: F SHEEHY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Matt Phelan , illustrator
(3,622)
Summary: Eleven-year-old Jack Clark struggles with everyday obstacles while his family and community contend with the challenges brought on by the Dust Bowl in 1937 Kansas.
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL PHE
Location: Storage
copies in: 1 of 1
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Susan Elia MacNeal
(13,531)
Summary: "Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill's Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain's beloved royals against an international plot--one...
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(975)
Summary: Experience Christmas through the eyes of adventuresome settlers who relied on log cabins built from trees on their own land to see them through the cruel forces of winter. Discover how rough-hewed...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F LOG
Location: Large Print Fiction
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by
Nora Roberts
Series:
MacGregors Series - #.1
(8,484)
Summary: "Despite the enmity between their two countries, Brigham Langston, a handsome English lord, finds himself drawn to the beautiful Serena MacGregor, a hot-tempered Scottish hoyden, in a historical...
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Call #: PB ROB
Location: Adult Paperbacks
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Graeme Macrae Burnet
(28,346)
Summary: "A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What...
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Call #: BK CLUB F BURNET
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 20
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Sara November
(5)
Summary: Lavinia is determined not to give in to the charms of her boss' son. She has an intense hatred for the aristocracy but is intent on living her life her way. Her dream is to become one of Yorkshire's...
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Call #: YA F NOVEMBER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Candace Camp
Series:
Mad Morelands - #5
(615)
Summary: A noble's son and a woman who has lost her memory work together to discover her identity and deliver her from danger.
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Call #: PB CAM
Location: Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 1 of 1
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