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By Smiley, Jane2022., Adults, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: FIC SMI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have: financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe's detective, Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious. Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West--a bewitching combination of beauty and danger--as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says, 'Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise...'"
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2006., Ages 4-8, Little, Brown Call No: FIC CON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Avi, 1937-2020., Ages 9-13, Candlewick Press Call No: Y AVI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jane Eyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence - until her father leaves for the gold fields and the care of Jacob falls to her. Then Jacob vanishes, kidnapped, perhaps hidden among the hundreds of ships - called Rotten Row - that have been abandoned in the bay. If he is there, Tory must find him in a treacherous search. Tory comes close to losing everything in her quest for her own and her brother's freedom.
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2006., Adults, Random House Audio Call No: AUD STE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Hiroko's father is a man ahead of his time, while her mother is steeped in Japanese traditions. At eighteen, Hiroko bows to her father's wishes and travels to California to stay with cousins and attend college. It is 1941, and Hiroko soon finds herself an enemy in a foreign land. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1996.
