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c1999., Young Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC CHE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and catches the eye of the famous artist.
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c2013., Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC CHE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
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2010., Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC CHE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Nineteenth-century fossil hunter Mary Anning and spinster Elizabeth Philpot form a friendship based on their interest in science and Elizabeth's confidence which allows her to protect Mary against men in the field and other individuals who believe her work is unacceptable because she is a female and it questions religious beliefs.
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20190917., Adults, Viking Call No: FIC CHE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancZ, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood. She is drawn into a society of women who embroider kneelers for the cathedral. When forces threaten her new independence and another war appears on the horizon, she fights to put down roots in a place where women aren't expected to grow.grow.
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[2003], c1997., Adult, Plume Call No: FIC CHE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ella Turner moves to France with her husband expecting a quiet life, begins researching her family's French ancestry, and discovers unsettling parallels between herself and a woman who lived four centuries earlier.