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Summary: "The basis for the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning, and directed by Sofia Coppola "[A] mad gothic tale. The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young ladies." --Stephen King, in Danse Macabre Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULMallon, Thomas
Summary: A retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALThomas, Rosie
Summary: "Nancy Wix, daughter of stage impresarios Eliza and Devil, is a born performer. But she is set apart, even from her unusual family, by the visions she has seen since she was a child. When a gifted medium reveals a way for Nancy to harness her troubling powers to keep the Wix's struggling theatre afloat, she grasps the opportunity with a desperate intensity. This is the age of spiritualism,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOHardy, Thomas
Summary: Against the larger-than-life backdrop of England's conflict with Napoleon, young Anne Garland is courted by three suitors: the trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry. For Hardy, the loves and sorrows of ordinary characters are as much the material of history as any record of emperors and generals. The present tale is founded largely on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARMallon, Thomas
Summary: Reimagines the turbulent second term and political relationships of a mercurial President George W. Bush from the perspectives of two West Texans with disparate ideological views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALThomas, Sherry.
Summary: Venetia Easterbrook pretends to be a wealthy baroness in order to take revenge on the Duke of Lexington, but she ends up falling in love with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Sensation 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThomas, Will
Summary: Volunteering to infiltrate a secret organization of Irish dissenters suspected of bombing a new branch of Scotland Yard, nineteenth-century private detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, learn of plans for other bombings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOFlanagan, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAKeneally, Thomas
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Schindlers List comes the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the First World War. In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their fathers farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Though they are used to tending the sick, nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Keneally 2013Keneally, Thomas
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars, a new historical novel set on the remote island of Saint Helena about the remarkable friendship between a young woman and one of history's most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile. In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENO'Malley, Thomas
Summary: In 1950's Boston, the Irish Republican Army is running guns and killing witnesses. Cal and Dante are committed to stopping them. When a body is discovered at the Charlestown locks--tarred, feathered and shot to death--it appears to be a gangland killing, and is almost immediately dismissed. However, Cal O'Brien's cousin, Boston PD detective Owen Lackey, recognizes the murder style as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OMAThomas, Jodi.
Summary: "Three days after arriving in Galveston, newly widowed Sage McMurray is furious. She's been gone from Texas long enough to forget what it takes to survive on the frontier, and finds herself taken hostage in a robbery. Sage fears if the outlaws discover who she is, she may never see Whispering Mountain again. Her fears are about to come true when the outlaws decide to auction off their pretty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2009
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Summary: "On the island of Guernsey, as WWII looms, many islanders make the heartbreaking choice to ship their children to safety in England, not knowing when (or if) they will be reunited. Acting on faith, Ava and Joseph Simon reluctantly send their 9-year-old son Henry and four-year-old daughter Catherine with their children's teacher Helen, who will escort them to the mainland. But Helen's sister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ThomasThomas, Will
Summary: In 19th century London, Cyrus Barker and his associate Thomas Llewelyn are renowned private enquiry agents, successfully employed by the highest levels of Her Majesty's government as well as private citizens. Their success, however, has led to their acquiring a powerful group of enemies, many of whom are determined to have their revenge. At least one of those enemies is responsible for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThomas, Will
Summary: "London, 1893: Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are called in to protect Tsesarevich Nicholas from nefarious forces as he travels to England for a royal wedding-in Dance with Death, the next mystery in Will Thomas's beloved series. In June of 1893, the future Nicholas II travels to London for a royal wedding, bringing with him his private security force and his ballerina...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThomas, Will
Summary: "At the request of Her Majesty's government, private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker agrees to take on his least favorite kind of assignment--he's to provide security for a secret conference with the French government. The conference is to take place on the private estate of Lord Hargrave on a remote island off the coast of Cornwall. The goal of the conference is the negotiation of a new treaty with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOKeneally, Thomas
Summary: "An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimagining the full story of the Learned Man--a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia. From Vietnam to northern Africa and the Australian Outback, Shelby searches for understanding of this enigmatic man from the ancient past, unaware that the two men share a great...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENKeneally, Thomas
Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENMallon, Thomas
Summary: "Up with the Sun is a fictional look back at the life of a little-known, C-list celebrity striver who met a bad end in New York City in the 1980s. Dick Kallman was an up-and-coming actor-until he wasn't. From co-starring in Broadway shows, to becoming part of Lucille Ball's historic Desilu workshop, and then finally landing his own short-lived primetime TV series, Dick's star was clearly on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALMullen, Thomas.
Summary: Hired by the Atlanta Police Department in 1948, Lucious Boggs and Tommy Smith confront deep hostility from their white peers before confronting a corrupt officer who complicates their investigation into the murder of a black woman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 Ink/Atria 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MULThomas, Rosie
Summary: In late 19th century London, artist's model Eliza puts her heart, and her life, on the line when she falls into the company of an enigmatic showman called Devil; Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered dwarf with a penchant for magic and illusion; and the even more mysterious Jasper Button.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThomas, Rosie
Summary: Octogenarian Iris Black bonds with her teenage granddaughter, Ruby, who has run away from a difficult relationship with her mother in England to seek refuge in Cairo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Thomas 2016Thomas, Will
Summary: "One evening in 1888, Robert Anderson, the head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), appears at Barker's office with an offer. A series of murders in the Whitechapel area of London are turning the city upside down, with tremendous pressure being brought to bear on Scotland Yard and the government itself. Barker is to be named temporary envoy to the Royal Family with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOThomas, Will
Summary: "London, 1893, there is poisoner loose in the city, with deaths piling up, and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are apparently his next target in Fierce Poison by Will Thomas. Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker has just about seen it all-he's been attacked by assassins, his office has been bombed, and evil-doers have even nearly killed his dog. But never before has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022