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Island beneath the sea :
a novel
Allende, Isabel.
"The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control
of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects Racially mixed women -- Fiction. Women slaves -- Fiction. Sugar plantations -- Fiction. Plantation owners -- Haiti -- 18th century -- Fiction. Plantation life -- Fiction. Haiti -- Fiction. Caribbean Area -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Alice I have been : a novel
Benjamin, Melanie.
Now in her twilight years, Alice Liddell looks back on a remarkable life. From a
pampered childhood in Oxford to difficult years as a widowed mother, Alice examines
how she became who she is--and how she became immortalized as Alice in Wonderland.
Subjects Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell, 1852-1934 -- Fiction. Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898 -- Fiction. Oxford (England) -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The postmistress
Blake, Sarah, 1960-
In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod
doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally
returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The
Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary
women--and of two countries torn apart by war.
Subjects Postmasters -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Massachusetts -- Franklin -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Radio broadcasting and the war -- Fiction. London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1941 -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Caleb's crossing
Brooks, Geraldine.
In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to
graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, the author has
created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. Growing up in the
tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans, Bethia
Mayfield yearns for an education that is closed to her due to her gender. As soon
as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observes
its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son
of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien
world of the other.
Subjects Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, ca. 1646-1666 -- Fiction. Wampanoag Indians -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard -- Fiction. Indian college graduates -- Fiction. Indian scholars -- United States -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Parrot and Olivier in America
Carey, Peter, 1943- Subjects Aristocracy (Social class) -- France -- Fiction. Voyages and travels -- Fiction. Master and servant -- Fiction. Male friendship -- Fiction. France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. United States -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The puzzle king : a novel
Carter, Betsy, 1945- Subjects Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction. Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. Families -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Remarkable creatures
Chevalier, Tracy.
When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her
home on the English coast, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople
to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight. Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely
champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, and in the struggle to be recognized in the
wider world, Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally.
Subjects Anning, Mary, 1799-1847 -- Fiction. Philpot, Elizabeth, 1780-1857 -- Fiction. Women paleontologists -- England -- Fiction. Female friendship -- Fiction. Fossils -- Collection and preservation -- Fiction. Discoveries in science -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The burning land : a novel
Cornwell, Bernard.
The Danes of East Anglia and the Vikings of Northumbria are plotting the conquest
of all Britain. When King Alfred's daughter pleads with Uhtred for help, he cannot
refuse her request. In a desperate gamble, he takes command of a demoralized Mercian
army, leading them in an unforgettable battle on a blood-soaked field beside the
Thames.
Subjects Alfred, King of England, 849-899 -- Fiction. Vikings -- Fiction. Great Britain -- History -- Alfred, 871-899 -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Four freedoms
Crowley, John, 1942-
In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation's young men ship off to war, the
call goes out for builders of the machinery necessary to defeat the enemy. To this
purpose, a city has sprung up seemingly overnight in the windswept fields of Oklahoma:
the Van Damme airplane factory, a gargantuan complex dedicated to the construction
of the B-30 Pax, the largest bomber ever built. Some men, but mostly women, many
of whom have never operated a rivet gun or held a screwdriver, folk to this place
eager to earn, to grow, to do their part. Many are away from home for the very first
time, enticed by the opportunity to be something more than wife and homemaker. In
the middle of nowhere they will live, work, and earn their own money, fearing for
the safety of their absent fighting men as the world around them changes forever.--From
publisher's description.
Subjects World War, 1939-1945 -- Oklahoma -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Oklahoma -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Oklahoma -- Fiction. Airplane factories -- Oklahoma -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Prayers for sale
Dallas, Sandra.
Set in the high country of Colorado during the Depression, this is the story of
an unforgettable friendship between two women--eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort
and seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle--and the deepest hardships and darkest secrets
they shared with each other.
Subjects Female friendship -- Fiction. Older women -- Fiction. Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction. Colorado -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Homer & Langley : a novel
Doctorow, E. L., 1931-
A free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York's fabled Collyer brothers
depicts Homer and Langley as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion,
facing odyssean perils as they struggle to survive the wars, political movements,
and technological advances of the last century.
Subjects Collyer, Homer Lusk, 1881-1947 -- Fiction. Collyer, Langley, 1885-1947 -- Fiction. Brothers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. Recluses -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Stettin station
Downing, David, 1946-
In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin,
tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his fourteen-year-old
son Paul and his longtime girlfriend Effi. Forced to work for both German and American
intelligence, he's searching for a way out of Germany. Can he escape and take Effi
with him?
Subjects Americans -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction. Journalists -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction. Secret service -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction. Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Sacred hearts : a novel
Dunant, Sarah.
The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara,
noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community,
however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the
arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will
shake the convent to its core.
Subjects Nuns -- Italy -- Fiction. Convents -- Italy -- Fiction. Women -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 16th century -- Fiction. Ferrara (Italy) -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Elizabeth I : a novel
George, Margaret, 1943-
Elizabeth's rival for the love of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and mother to
the Earl of Essex, the mercurial nobleman who challenged Elizabeth's throne, Lettice
Knollys had been intertwined with Elizabeth since childhood. They are both women
of fierce intellect and desire: one trying to protect her country, and throne, the
other trying to regain power and position for her family and each vying to convince
the reader of her own private vision of the truth.
Subjects Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Fiction. Leicester, Lettice Dudley, Countess of, 1543-1634 -- Fiction. Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588 -- Fiction. Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction. Queens -- Great Britain -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Conspirata : [a novel of
ancient Rome]
Harris, Robert, 1957- Subjects Tiro, M. Tullius (Marcus Tullius), b. 103 or 4 B.C. -- Fiction. Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Fiction. Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C. -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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All other nights : a novel
Horn, Dara, 1977-
How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier
in the Union army, it is a question his commanders have answered for him: on Passover
in 1862 he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who is plotting to assassinate President
Lincoln. After that night, will Jacob ever speak for himself? The answer comes when
his commanders send him on another mission - this time not to murder a spy but to
marry one.
Subjects United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction. Jewish soldiers -- Fiction. Jews -- United States -- Fiction. Life change events -- Fiction. Ethics -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The physick book of Deliverance
Dane : a novel
Howe, Katherine.
While readying her grandmother's abandoned home for sale, Connie Goodwin discovers
an ancient key in a seventeenth-century Bible with a scrap of parchment bearing
the name Deliverance Dane. In her quest to discover who this woman was and seeking
a rare artifact--a physick book--Connie begins to feel haunted by visions of the
long-ago witch trials and fears that she may be more tied to Salem's past than she
could have imagined.
Subjects Witches -- Massachusetts -- Fiction. Marblehead (Mass.) -- Fiction. Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction. Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Under the Poppy : a novel
Koja, Kathe. Subjects Brothels -- Fiction. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Puppets -- Fiction. Brussels (Belgium) -- Fiction. Belgium -- History -- Leopold II, 1865-1909 -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Let the great world spin
: a novel
McCann, Colum, 1965- Subjects Immigrants -- Fiction. Irish -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. Judges' spouses -- Fiction. Grief -- Fiction. Teenage mothers -- Fiction. Petit, Philippe, 1949- -- Fiction. Tightrope walking -- Fiction. New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction. Nineteen seventies -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The Paris wife : a novel
McLain, Paula.
Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful
boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take
off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected
child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions
and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband's career.
Subjects Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Marriage -- Fiction. Mowrer, Hadley Hemingway, 1891- -- Fiction. Authors' spouses -- United States -- Fiction. Authors, American -- France -- Fiction. Expatriate authors -- France -- Fiction. Paris (France) -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Pearl of China : a novel
Min, Anchee, 1957-
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century,
young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian
missionaries, bump heads and embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them
through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.
Subjects Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 -- Fiction. Women novelists -- Fiction. Americans -- China -- Fiction. Friendship in children -- Fiction. Female friendship -- Fiction. China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The thousand autumns of Jacob
De Zoet : a novel
Mitchell, David (David Stephen)
1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk,
has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai
doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety,
profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise
made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob's
worst imaginings.
Subjects Deshima (Nagasaki-shi, Japan) -- Fiction. Japan -- History -- 1787-1868 -- Fiction. East and West -- Fiction. Trading posts -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Cleopatra's daughter : a
novel
Moran, Michelle. Subjects Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Fiction. Egypt -- Kings and rulers -- Children -- Fiction. Egypt -- History -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D. -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The invisible bridge
Orringer, Julie.
An unforgettable story of three brothers, of history and love, of marriage tested
by disaster, of a Jewish family's struggle against annihilation, and of the dangerous
power of art in a time of war.
Subjects Architecture students -- Fiction. Jews -- Hungary -- Fiction. Brothers -- Fiction. Jews -- Persecutions -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- Fiction. Budapest (Hungary) -- Fiction. Paris (France) -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Watermark : [a novel of the
middle ages]
Sankaran, Vanitha.
"The daughter of a papermaker in a small French village in the year 1320--mute from
birth and forced to shun normal society--young Auda finds solace and escape in the
wonder of the written word. Believed to be cursed by those who embrace ignorance
and superstition, Auda's very survival is a testament to the strength of her spirit.
But this is an age of Inquisition and intolerance, when difference and defiance
are punishable "sins" and new ideas are considered damnable heresy. When darkness
descends upon her world, Auda--newly grown to womanhood--is forced to flee, setting
off on a remarkable quest to discover love and a new sense of self . . . and to
reclaim her heritage and the small glory of her father's art"--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects France -- History -- 14th century -- Fiction. Mute persons -- Fiction. Young women -- France -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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The coral thief : a novel
Stott, Rebecca. Subjects Anatomists -- Fiction. Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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Clara and Mr. Tiffany : a
novel
Vreeland, Susan.
Louis Comfort Tiffany staffs his studio with female artisans--a decision that protects
him from strikes by the all-male union--but refuses to employ women who are married.
Lucky for him, Clara Driscoll's romantic misfortunes insure that she can continue
to craft the jewel-toned glass windows and lamps that catch both her eye and her
imagination.
Subjects Driscoll, Clara, 1861-1944 -- Fiction. Women glass artists -- Fiction. Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 1848-1933 -- Fiction. Tiffany and Company -- History -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |
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I Hotel : [a novel]
Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951-
A multi-voiced fusion of fiction, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins
an epic tale of America's struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco.
Divided into ten novellas, one for each year, I Hotel begins in 1968, when Martin
Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, students took to the streets, the
Vietnam War raged, and cities burned. By the time the survivors unite to save the
International Hotel--epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement--their stories have
come to define the very heart of the American experience.
Subjects Civil rights movements -- United States -- Fiction. Asian Americans -- Fiction. Nineteen seventies -- Fiction. Nineteen sixties -- Fiction. Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction. Search for other formats (CD, DVD, Large Print, etc.) |