Davis, Fiona
Summary: New York City, 1956: Marion Brooks's college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs-- and she's feeling trapped. When she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-- the glamorous precision-dancing troupe-- she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DAVDavis, Fiona
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and glamorous Radio City Music Hall in her thrilling new novel about a talented young Rockette and a mysterious bomber terrorizing New York City. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVDavis, Fiona
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and glamorous Radio City Music Hall in her thrilling new novel about a talented young Rockette and a mysterious bomber terrorizing New York City. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 0000
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC DAV (Peninsula Book Club Kit - 8 hardcover books)Swamy, Shruti
Summary: 'A young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is complex and indelibly rendered. Vidya's childhood is marked by the shattering absence and then the bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with her brilliant and increasingly troubled mother, Vidya navigates the stifling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWALin, Rosalie M.
Summary: "Genres collide in this dark and atmospheric reimagining of 1930s Shanghai for fans of Nghi Vo and S. A. Chakraborty. Jingwen spends her nights as a showgirl at the Paramount, one of the most lavish clubs in Shanghai, competing ruthlessly to charm wealthy patrons. To cap off her shifts, she runs money for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most powerful gang in the city. A position...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINJefferies, Dinah
Summary: An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise... A rebellious daughter. 1925. Among the ancient honey-colored walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer's job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret. 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEFRiley, Lucinda
Summary: Tiggy D'Apliese spends her days experiencing the raw beauty of the Scottish Highlands doing a job she loves at a deer sanctuary. But when the sanctuary is forced to close, she is offered a job as a wildlife consultant on the vast and isolated estate of the elusive and troubled laird, Charlie Kinnaird. She has no idea that the move will not only irrevocably alter her future, but also bring her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RILChoo, Yangsze
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo, a novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia that pulls the reader into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love, and a child and a young woman searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Donoghue, Emma
Summary: "Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONChoo, Yangsze
Summary: "Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master's dying wish:...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Choo 2019Donoghue, Emma
Summary: Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DONFowler, Christopher.
Summary: When a bomb explodes in the office of London's most unusual police unit, it claims the life of its oldest detective, Arthur Bryant. As his surviving partner John May searches for clues to the bomber's identity, he finds his investigation taking him back to the day the detectives first met as young men in 1940.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: W.F. Howes 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWHakes, Jasmin 'Iolani
Summary: "Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there's a lot she doesn't understand. She's never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse, unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have started to grow, creating fractures whose origins are somehow entangled with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAKThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Reformed gangster Jack Robinson is working hard to bolster his image in Gilded Age New York City society as he prepares to become a new father. But when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined his wife, is shot in cold blood, Jack knows the police will soon come knocking on his door. Frank Malloy has to agree ... things don't look good for Jack. But surely a man as unlikeable as Hayden had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Thompson 2021Jenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021