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Harris, Robert

Summary: Guy Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving in 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Rikard von Holz is on the staff of the German Foreign Office--and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Guy flies with Chamberlain...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Silver, Mitch

Summary: The discovery of a human arm bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist at a London construction site prompts Russian historian Lara "the Bookworm" Klimt to investigate a secret World War II operation and prevent a present-day international conspiracy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SIL

Bruce, Camilla

Summary: "An audacious novel of feminine rage about one of the most prolific female serial killers in American history-and the men who drove her to it. They whisper about her in Chicago. Men come to her with their hopes, their dreams-their fortunes. But no one sees them leave. No one sees them at all after they come to call on the Widow of La Porte. The good people of Indiana may have their suspicions,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRU

Quinn, Kate

Summary: Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boardinghouse where secrets hide. But when Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship. When an act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Deutermann, Peter T.

Summary: "Lieutenant Bobby Steele, USN, is a fresh-faced and eager naval aviator: a "Nugget," who needs to learn the ropes and complex procedures of taking off and returning safely to his aircraft carrier. A blurry night of drinking lands him in an unfamiliar bed aboard the USS Oklahoma; later that day, the Japanese destroy Pearl Harbor. After cheating death and losing his friend in this act of war, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEU

Tapper, Jake

Summary: Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor died mysteriously, Charlie is struggling to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, DC, alongside his young wife Margaret, a zoologist with ambitions of her own. But when Charlie discovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of governance, he has to fight not only for his...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAP

Kanon, Joseph

Summary: Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KAN

Quinn, Kate

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boardinghouse where secrets hide. But when Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship. When an act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2024

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Jackson, Lisa

Summary: A trio of linked novellas about dark secrets and revenge, all connected by St. Cecilia's School for Girls. An elite boarding school and a haven for the daughters of the rich and famous, it's a place where scandals are buried and secrets hidden. But for three former students, evil is about to resurface.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAC

Adams, Hope

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "Nearly two hundred condemned women on board a sailing ship bound for Australia. One of them is a murderer. London, 1841. One hundred eighty Englishwomen file aboard the Rajah, embarking on a three-month voyage to the other side of the world. They're daughters, sisters, mothers-and convicts. Transported for petty crimes. Except one of them has a deadly secret, and will do anything to flee...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADA

Wheeler, Theodore

Summary: From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHE

Bradley, C. Alan

Summary: "On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BRA

Bradley, C. Alan

Summary: "Youthful chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce once again brings her knowledge of poisons and her indefatigable spirit to solve dastardly crimes -- but this time, she leaves behind her beloved English countryside, and takes her sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bradley 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BRA

Bradley, C. Alan

Summary: "Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in the much anticipated new mystery novel from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley. In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is excited to be sailing home to England. But instead of a joyous homecoming,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2016

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bradley 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: M BRA

Harris, Charlaine

Summary: Sisters Lizbeth Rose and Felicia, as well as brothers Eli and Peter, are reunited in Texoma, only to break apart before the Wizard's Ball held in San Diego, which will determine all their fates.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Follett, Ken.

Summary: Just before World War I, two men--one a noble Russian emissary, the other a denizen of Europe's underground--set in motion a concatenation of world-shaking, ultimately fatal events.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOL

Bilyeau, Nancy.

Summary: "The next page-turner in the award-winning Joanna Stafford series takes place in the heart of the Tudor court, as the gutsy former novice risks everything to defy the most powerful men of her era. After her priory in Dartford is closed--collateral damage in tyrannical King Henry VIII's quest to overthrow the Catholic Church--Joanna resolves to live a quiet and honorable life weaving...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIL

Santlofer, Jonathan

Summary: "August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAN

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Santlofer

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