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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three Black St. John sisters, it prompts questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could-and between a cheating fiancé and fallout from a controversial...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...
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"For fans of sweeping historical literature in the vein of Philipp Meyer's The Son or Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, an extraordinary US literary debut set in Paris and colonial New Orleans and based on a true story, about three of the 88 young women--among them an orphan, a madwoman, and an abortionist--who were deported to the Louisiana Territory as brides"--
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"Sophie Dix fled Stuttgart with her brother as the Nazi regime gained power in Germany. Now, with her brother gone and her adopted home city of Paris conquered by the Reich, Sophie reluctantly accepts a position restoring damaged art at the Jeu de Paume museum under the supervision of the ERR -- a German art commission using the museum as a repository for art they've looted from Jewish families. Fabienne Brandt was a rising star in the Parisian bohemian...
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They could have been allies: two self-made millionaires who invented a global industry, in an era when wife and mother were supposed to be the highest goals for their sex. Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein each founded empires built on grit and determination...and yet they became locked in a feud spanning three continents, two world wars, and the Great Depression. Brought up in poverty, Canadian-born Elizabeth Arden changed popular opinion, persuading...
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"In 1837, Juniper Collins and her sisters are shocked by their father's deathbed request for them to return a special set of beads to a Piegan Blackfoot woman he credits with saving his life during his travels West. Together, the sisters set out for the trapper rendezvous to find the woman, but their mission turns more daunting when they come upon the mass of men and lodges spread out in the Green River Valley.Riley Turner came West to find peace...
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The Maureen Ritter volume Book 3
Publisher
Eoin Dempsey
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Maureen Ritter’s story draws to a stunning conclusion. France, 1943Having left Christophe, her lover, and fellow freedom fighter, behind in Marseilles, Maureen travels to England to undergo a grueling training course to join the Special Operations Executive and become a secret soldier to counter the Nazis in her beloved France. Her first mission is to take control of a ragtag band of outlaws in the forest and mold them into a fighting force worthy...
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Three musketeers series volume 6
Publisher
Trident Press International
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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When a terrible secret threatens to bring down the throne of France, the Musketeers rally to serve their king and save their country by unraveling the mystery behind the man in the iron mask.
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The Blood Sisters volume Book 3
Publisher
Roberta Kagan
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"In a world filled with danger, heartbreak, and impossible choices, the blood sisters must navigate through the darkness to find love, redemption, and a chance at survival. Anna has found solace and love in the colorful Romany camp. How long will this last under the watchful eye of a spurned and obsessed Nazi? In the unrelenting grimness of Ravensbruck, Moriah is caught in the web of Dagna's deadly ambition and schemes. Her chances for survival diminish...
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Victorian rebels volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Gavin St. James, Earl of Thorne, tries to claim the abandoned estate bordering his own as part of his effort to put his past behind him, but he finds himself opposed by American Tessa Ross, who hides dark secrets of her own.
12) The cricket war
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"As a twelve-year-old boy growing up in South Vietnam, Th⁻ has heard of other boys disappearing from time to time, smuggled out of the country so they wouldn't have to be conscripted into the Communist army. But Th⁻ is too young to worry about any of that. He spends his afternoons cricket fighting and playing soccer with his friends. Until one day, he finds out that his parents have arranged for him to leave the country -- alone. What follows...
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"In Time and Time Again, international best-selling author Ben Elton, takes readers on a thrilling journey through early 20th-Century Europe. It's the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy...
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Time twisters volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Abby and her stepbrother, Doc, must persuade Abraham Lincoln to play his part in history after one too many comments about history being boring cause him to go on strike.
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Jacob Barzilai
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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1933. Hitler's rise to power in Germany marks the beginning of the end for the Jews of Europe. For little newborn Yaakov, this is only the beginning. "
"Hungary, 1944. 11-year-old Yaakov and his parents and younger sister are forced out of their home into the unknown. They find themselves in the ghetto, living under impossible conditions, until they are banished by the Nazis to Bergen Belsen concentration camp through Austria, what might be their...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The year is 1794. A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in hospital. Some think he would be at home in the madhouse across the road. Ridden with guilt, he spends his nights writing down memories of his lost love who died on their wedding night. Her mother also mourns her and when no one listens to her suspicions, she begs the aid of the only person who will listen: Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman. Cecil Winge is six months in...
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Auschwitz, 1943: I stroke my beautiful baby’s hair. It’s a miracle it’s blonde because it will keep her alive, it will keep her safe. Soon they will come and take Pippa out of Auschwitz-Birkenau – and out of my arms. But while there’s life, there’s hope I might find my daughter again… An incredible story of one woman’s courage and determination to reunite her family in the aftermath of surviving...
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Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Paris 1945. Sylvia creeps into the beautiful house on a tree-lined street, the headquarters of cold-hearted German soldiers. She trails her fingers along the gilded furniture and sees the light dance off the glittering chandeliers. On the top floor, she finds the dates inscribed by beaten prisoners. The last message Phyllis will ever send her. Three years earlier, nineteen-year-old Phyllis was Sylvia's youngest recruit, young enough to be her daughter....
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Series
The Powerscourt volume Book 2
Publisher
Eoin Dempsey
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Ireland/England 1880 On the run from the authorities after escaping from jail in Ireland, Joseph meets a stranger on the boat to England. With little money to his name and in need of help, Joseph follows his new friend to Manchester, where he falls in with a crowd of Irish nationalists, eager to make a stir. Soon, he will find his life spiraling out of control, and Joseph will have to decide which is more important: his loyalty to the cause or his...
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The Maureen Ritter volume Book 2
Publisher
Eoin Dempsey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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New York, 2006Amy is writing her grandmother’s biography when she receives news that upends her entire existence. Still in shock, she flies to the south of France to hear the next part of her grandmother’s wartime story. Faced with choices that will alter the path of her life, Amy finds that she needs her grandmother’s advice more than ever, and that the older woman is determined that her granddaughter not repeat the mistakes she made in the...