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F NEMIR
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F NEMIR
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2011. | Vintage Books | 264 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F NEMIR Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F NEMIR |
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c2014 | First edition. | HarperCollins | 319 pages ; 24 cm. | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 2 available F WINSP |
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2014 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
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"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....
3) The cove
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
F RASH
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F RASH
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[2012] | Ecco | 255 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available F RASH Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F RASH |
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OverDrive | Unabridged | Dreamscape Media | English | Available Online
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[2012] | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press | 345 pages (large print) ; 23. | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Large Type 1 available LT F RASH |
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Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love cannot protect them from a devastating secret.
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2009. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 184 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF FROST |
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In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.
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c2012 | Original UK ed. | PBS Distribution | 3 videodiscs (ca. 540 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult DVD 1 available DVD TV DOWNT SEASON 2 |
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The Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part: heir Matthew Crawley and footman Thomas Barrow are off fighting, while Lady Grantham and Isobel Crawley are squabbling over whether Downton should be used as a hospital. Lady Mary is seeing a wealthy newspaper magnate while Lady Edith becomes much warmer and Lady Sybil seeks to ingratiate herself...
6) Englishmans Daughter A True Story Of Love And Betr
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Kitty Weeks mysteries volume 1
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©2016. | Sourcebooks Landmark | 328 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Detective 1 available D VATSA |
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2016 | OverDrive | Sourcebooks | English | Available Online
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©2016. | Thorndike Press | 429 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT D VATSA |
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When a man is murdered at a high society picnic on her beat, journalist Kitty Weeks is plunged into a wartime conspiracy that threatens to derail the United States' attempt to remain neutral and to disrupt the privileged life she has always known.
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[2008] | First edition. | Potomac Books | xi, 315 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English |
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Imagine a more controversial Rosie the Riveter-a generation older and more outlandish for her time. She was the "farmerette" of the Woman's Land Army of America (WLA), doing a man's job on the home front during World War I. From 1917 to 1920 the WLA sent more than twenty thousand urban women into rural America to take over farm work after the men went off to war and food shortages threatened the nation. These women, from all social and economic strata,...
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MOYES
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 2 available
F MOYES
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[2012] | Pamela Dorman Books/Viking | xii, 369 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F MOYES Shirlington - Adult Fiction 2 available F MOYES |
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Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD F MOYES
Westover - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD F MOYES
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[2012] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 11 audio discs (13.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD F MOYES Westover - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD F MOYES |
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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©2013. | Thorndike Press | 639 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT F MOYES |
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France, 1916: Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War II, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer's dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything--her family, her reputation, and her life--to see her husband again. Almost a century later, Sophie's portrait is given to Liv Halston by her young...
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2016. | Pen & Sword Military | 253 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 741.683 VRIES |
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During World War I, the picture postcard was the most important means of communication for the soldiers in the field and their loved ones at home, with an estimated 30 billion of them sent between 1914 and 1918. A postcard from home offered the soldier in the trenches a short escape from their daily hell, while receiving a postcard from a man on the frontline was literally a sign of life. These postcards create a vivid record of life at home and abroad...
11) Hattie Big Sky
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Central - Teen Fiction 1 available
YF LARSO
Westover - Teen Fiction 1 available
YF LARSO
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2008. | FIrst Yearling edition. | Yearling | vii, 289 pages ; 20 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF LARSO Westover - Teen Fiction 1 available YF LARSO |
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2007 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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2007 | OverDrive | Random House Children's Books | English | Available Online
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For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she summons the courage to leave Iowa and move all by herself to Vida, Montana, to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim. Under the big sky, Hattie braves hard weather, hard times, a cantankerous cow, and her own hopeless hand at the cookstove. Her quest to make a home is championed by new neighbors...
12) In the dark
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©2015. | Overlook Press | 313 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F MOGGA |
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On the South London home front of World War I, boarding house owner Eithne Clay, her fourteen-year-old son Ralph, her staff, and her tenants suffer their own dramas as the war unfolds.
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2013. | Amulet Books | 387 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Teen Fiction 1 available YF WINTE |
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In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.
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2017. | First edition. | Little A | 322 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F WHEEL |
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An exciting, gritty portrait of a corrupt American city on the edge of self-destruction. During the waning days of World War I, three lost souls find themselves adrift in Omaha, Nebraska, at a time of unprecendented nationalism, xenohobia, and political corruption. Adolescent European refugee Karel Miihlstein's life is transformed after neighborhood boys discover his prodigious natural talent for baseball. Jake Strauss, a young man with a violent...
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[2013] | G.P. Putnam's Sons | [30 pages] : illustrations ; 29 cm | English | Available
Central - Kids Picture Books 1 available JP HOPKI |
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When his father leaves to fight in World War I, Mikey joins the Central Park Knitting Bee to help knit clothing for soldiers overseas.
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[2017] | First edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 368, 19 pages : map ; 21 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F GAYNO |
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"August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes--as everyone does--that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris. But as history tells us, it all happened so differently... Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play...
17) Meaning Of Names
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[2017] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 359 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F PEELL |
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"The Whiting Award--winning author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing delivers her enchanting debut novel, set in 1916 Tennessee: a rich and rewarding tale of two flawed yet endearing grifters who pursue women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops in Europe--mules. A middle-aged Irish immigrant, Billy has a gift for illusion--making damaged objects look new. His companion, Charles, the smooth-tongued...
19) Mr. Mac and me
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2015. | First U.S. edition. | Bloomsbury | 296 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F FREUD |
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1914. In the village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast young Thomas Maggs befriends mysterious Scotsman and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh whom the locals call Mac. Just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to bloom, war with Germany is declared and as the war weighs increasingly heavily on the community, the villagers on the home front become increasingly suspicious of Mac and his curious behavior.
20) A name unknown
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Shadows over England volume 1
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WHITE
Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WHITE
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©2017. | Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group | 428 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F WHITE Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available F WHITE |
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1914. Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they concentrate on stealing high-value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society. But when Rosemary must determine whether a certain wealthy gentleman is loyal to Britain or to Germany, she is in for the challenge of a lifetime. How does one steal a family's history, their very name?...