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Conflict of generations Fiction Culture conflict Fiction Families Massachusetts Nantucket Island Fiction Family vacations Fiction Indians of North America Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Marital conflict Fiction Nantucket Island (Mass.) Fiction Nineteen sixty-nine, A.D Fiction Social conflict FictionYakhlif, Yaḥyá.
Summary: A Palestinian novel on the 1948 Arab-Israeli War in which Arabs tried unsuccessfully to crush the newly independent state of Israel. It is told through the eyes of the Arab inhabitants of a Palestinian village.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1999
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Summary: "1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will cause three of them to disappear forever. 2018: Melissa had hoped a break on the coast of Dorset would rekindle her stagnant relationship, but despite the idyllic scenery, it's pushing her and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOGrunwald, Lisa
Summary: "Dayton, Tennessee. 1925. It is in this sleepy mountain town where Annabel, a devout woman, falls in love with George Craig, a cosmopolitan defense attorney. Annabel's outlook on everything from life to love to the law is shaped by her faith; George sees the law something to bend to his will, and sees a world shaped by science and reason alone. By the end of the year, their marriage, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Maria Duenas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story of ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in the 1860s Mexico, Cuba, and Spain--perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Kristin Hannah. Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUEWright, Ronald
Summary: Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish explorers, including Francisco Pizarro, and in the culture clash and violent overthrow of the Incan leaders....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WRIBelfoure, Charles
Summary: "St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives a life of luxury and comfort, by the side of his beautiful but spiteful wife, Princess Lara. But when Dimitri is confronted by the death and destruction wrought by a pogrom, he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. After his ship is sunk, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past by assuming the identity of an American officer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARCHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Follow New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand back in time and join a Nantucket family as they experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a 1960s summer. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century! It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILO'Connor, Nuala
Summary: A witty and inherently feminist novel about passion and marriage, based on a true story of an unstoppable woman ahead of her time in Victorian London. In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class military family, growing up in a small garrison town. By 1891 she is the Countess of Clancarty, dubbed "the peasant countess" by the press, and a member of the Irish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCOFerrante, Elena
Summary: Friends Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning Gale 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FERHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HILHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: "Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, this year nothing is the same: Blair, the eldest sister, is stranded in Boston, pregnant with twins and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HILGrissom, Kathleen
Summary: In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Summary: Enduring a harsh existence as day laborers, orphaned brothers Gig and Rye Dolan are drawn to a feminist activist and a vaudeville singer whose experiences reflect an unjust world on the brink of upheaval.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WALLeavitt, David
Summary: As Europe prepares for war during the summer of 1940, two couples--expatriate Americans fleeing Paris and wealthy bohemians beset by the social and sexual anxieties of their class--arrive in Portugal, where their lives become inexplicably entwined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEATodd, Ilima
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Maile falls in love with Englishman John Harbottle, the navigator for Captain James Cook when they arrive in the Sandwich Islands. The two cultures clash after the death of Captain Cook in 1779, and Maile is forced to make an impossible decision: save John or save her people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Todd 2019Hilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILForster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORMishima, Yukio
Summary: "Translated into English for the first time, a gripping short novel about an affair gone wrong, from the acclaimed Japanese author, Yukio Mishima. Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, The Frolic of the Beasts tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; and Ippei's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MISOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORAForster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FORMcMahon, Katharine.
Summary: The daughter of an eccentric chemist, young Emilie Selden is a scientist in an eighteenth-century world that dismisses female accomplishment, until an encounter with the temptations of the outside world lures her away from her home and her work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMHegi, Ursula.
Summary: When his aunt and cousins move into his 1950s Bronx home after his uncle goes to jail again, young Anthony Amedeo struggles with sharing a room with his twin female cousins, resulting in an event that irrevocably changes the family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003