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-- Forty-five caliber fury2005., Adult, Berkley Books Call No: AW BRA Edition: Berkley ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Cuno Massey's life becomes focused on vengeance after a gang of bounty hunters, looking to bring him in for killing the son of a wealthy rancher, murders his young, pregnant wife.
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c2014, Hachette Audio Call No: AUD DEK Edition: Unabridged Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fleeing across the harsh desert to seek an alliance with King Herod, the daughter of a powerful first-century Arabian sheikh unexpectedly encounters an enigmatic teacher who invites her to become his follower.
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2014., Center Street Call No: FIC DEK Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. Step back in time to the year of our Lord...A.D. 30. The outcast daughter of one of the most powerful Bedouin sheikhs in Arabia, Maviah is called on to protect the very people who rejected her. When their enemies launch a sudden attack with devastating consequences, Maviah escapes with the help of two of her father's warriors--Saba who speaks more with is sword than his voice and Judah, a Jew who comes from a tribe that can read the stars. Their journey will be fraught with terrible danger. If they can survive the vast forbidding sands of a desert that is deadly to most, they will reach a brutal world subjugated by kings and emperors. There Maviah must secure an unlikely alliance with King Herod of the Jews. But Maviah's path leads her unexpectedly to another man. An enigmatic teacher who speaks of a way in this life which offers greater power than any kingdom. His name is Yeshua, and his words turn everything known on its head. Though following him may present even greater danger, his may be the only way for Maviah to save her people--and herself"--
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By Bowen, Rhys[2020]., Adults, Lake Union Publishing Call No: FIC BOW Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria's royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful, historical mystery ... Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella's hand. It's an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger's stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights, served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself. Best of all, she's been chosen to accompany the queen to Nice. What fortune! Until the threat of blackmail shadows Bella to the Riviera, and a member of the queen's retinue falls ill and dies. Having prepared the royal guest's last meal, Bella is suspected of the poisonous crime. An investigation is sure to follow. Her charade will be over. And her new life will come crashing down--if it doesn't send her to the gallows" --Provided by publisher.
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2002., Young Adult, Thomas Bouregy & Co. Call No: AVA BRO Edition: 1st. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Historical Romance.
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[2018]., Adults, Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group Call No: FIC CON Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: High Sierra sweethearts Volume: #1Summary Note: Trace Riley has been self-appointed guardian of the trail ever since his own wagon was attacked. When he finds the ruins of a wagon train, he offers shelter to survivor Deborah Harkness and the children she saved. Trace and Deborah grow close working to bring justice to the trail, but what will happen when the attackers return to silence the only witness?
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c1997., 5.2; 5-8, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Series Title: Dear America Volume: 4Summary Note: In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.
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c2013., Ages 10-15, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: Y CHO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Al Capone at Alcatraz Volume: #3Summary Note: "Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--
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c2009., Ages 10-15, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: Y CHO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Libraryrelated website Series Title: Al Capone at Alcatraz Volume: #2Summary Note: Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
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By Quinn, Kate2017., Adults, William Morrow Call No: FIC QUI Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive somewhere. So when Charlie's family banishes her to Europe to have her "little problem" take care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister. In 1915, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance to serve when she's recruited to work as a spy for the English. Sent into enemy-occupied France during The Great War, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents, right under the enemy's nose. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launching them both on a mission to find the truth ...no matter where it leads"--
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2000., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC DAL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Young newlywed Alice Bullock, left on an Iowa farm with only her mother-in-law for company after her husband joins the Union Army, discovers her own hidden strengths and finds unlikely sources of support after she is accused of murder.
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[2013]., Adult, Random House Call No: FIC FLA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Summary Note: Mrs. Sookie Poole has married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and traveling, but she still has to deal with her overbearing mother. When Sookie discovers a family secret, a search for answers takes her to California, the Midwest, and back in time to the 1940s.
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2004, c2003., Adult, Back Bay Books Call No: FIC SHR Edition: 1st Back Bay trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Nicholas Van Tassel, having glimpsed Etna Bliss standing under a street light, falls immediately in love and rearranges his entire life around the goal of making her his wife.
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2014, Adults, 160000, Simon & Schuster Audio Call No: AUD DOE Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
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2014., Adults, Scribner Call No: FIC DOE Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. Doerr's gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work"--
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[2015]., Adults, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC TRI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The movie business is booming in 1935 when twenty-one-year-old Loretta Young meets thirty-four-year-old Clark Gable on the set of The Call of the Wild. Though he's already married, Gable falls for the stunning and vivacious young actress instantly. Far from the glittering lights of Hollywood, Sister Alda Ducci has been forced to leave her convent and begin a new journey that leads her to Loretta. Becoming Miss Young's secretary, the innocent and pious young Alda must navigate the wild terrain of Hollywood with fierce determination and a moral code that derives from her Italian roots. Over the course of decades, she and Loretta encounter scandal and adventure, choose love and passion, and forge an enduring bond of love and loyalty that will be put to the test when they eventually face the greatest obstacle of their lives.
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[2020], Adults, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllinsPublishers Call No: FIC WIL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The heiress . . . The Resistance fighter . . . The widow . . . Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer first met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. Despite their conflicting loyalties, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love, but betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz— the home of her estranged American heiress mother, with unexpected consequences. France, 1942. Raised by her indomitable, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz, Marguerite Daisy Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother’s Resistance efforts, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand, who creates identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees. But as Daisy is drawn ever deeper into Legrand’s underground network, committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake of the country—and the man—she holds dear, she uncovers a devastating secret . . . one that will force her to commit the ultimate betrayal, and to confront at last the shocking circumstances of her own family history. France, 1964. For Barbara Babs Langford, her husband, Kit, was the love of her life. Yet their marriage was haunted by a mysterious woman known only as La Fleur. On Kit’s death, American lawyer Andrew Drew Bowdoin appears at her door. Hired to find a Resistance fighter turned traitor known as La Fleur, the investigation has led to Kit Langford. Curious to know more about the enigmatic La Fleur, Babs joins Drew in his search, a journey of discovery that that takes them to Paris and the Ritz—and to unexpected places of the heart. . . .
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[2013]., Adult, Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Pub. Group Call No: FIC PET Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Dr. Jeremiah Vaughan came to rural Alaska in 1935, hoping for a better future. But the truth about his past could ruin his chance at love"--Provided by publisher.
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By Balogh, Mary[2024]., Adult, Berkley Call No: FIC BAL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Ravenswood novel.Summary Note: "Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society-even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and children, and of walking - and dancing. When Ben Ellis comes across Lady Jennifer as she struggles to walk with the aidof primitive crutches, he instantly understands her yearning. He is a fixer. It is often said of him that he never saw a practical problem he did not have to solve. He wants to help her discover independence and motion-driving a carriage, swimming, evenwalking a different way. But he must be careful. He is the bastard son of the late Earl of Stratton. Though he was raised with the earl's family, he knows he does not really belong in the world of the ton. Jennifer is shocked-and intrigued-by Ben's ideas,and both families are alarmed by the growing friendship and perhaps more that they sense developing between the two. A duke's sister certainly cannot marry the bastard son of an earl. Except sometimes, love can find a way"--
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[2016], Young Adult, Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: YA NEL Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Connor tries to help his severely depressed father, who learned upon his mother's death that Nonno was not his biological father, by doing research that reveals Dad's father was probably a Tuskegee Airman.
