Dobson, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2008
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.341 DOBLea, Caroline
Summary: In the wake of the Allies' victory in North Africa, 1,000 Italian soldiers have been sent to a remote island off the Scottish coast to wait out the war. Their arrival has divided the island's community. Nerves frayed from three years of war and the constant threat of invasion, many locals fear the enemy prisoners and do not want them there. Where their neighbors see bloodthirsty enemies,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEACooper, Jane.
Summary: "It was Jane Cooper's passion for knitting that led her to search for rare-breed sheep and their distinctive wool. When she found a 'lost flock' of Boreray sheep--the UK's rarest breed of sheep--it ignited a quest that would ultimately change her life. Uprooting her suburban existence in Newcastle, she embarked on a new adventure as a farmer and shepherd in the faraway Orkney Islands. There, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.3 COOOwings, Lisa
Summary: "Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about Skara Brae. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 936.1 OWLFarmer, Nancy
Summary: Two years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction FarmerGoddard, Robert
Summary: July 1919. Ex-flying ace James 'Max' Maxted's attempt to uncover the secret behind the death of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, murdered while serving as an adviser with the British delegation to the Paris peace conference, has seemingly ended in failure -- and his own death. The trail uncovered by him leads to Japan and a mysterious prisoner held by Sir Henry Maxted's old enemy, Count Tomura....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODGray, Juliana
Summary: "Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove, north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archaeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by the artifact: a suit of clothing, which, according to family legend, once belonged to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRALivesey, Margot.
Summary: Overcoming a life of hardship and loneliness, Gemma Hardy, a brilliant and determined young woman, accepts a position as an au pair on the remote Orkney Islands where she faces her biggest challenge yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Livesey 2012Marillier, Juliet.
Summary: Thorvald, the son of Margaret and the slain king, discovers the truth about his heritage and sets out on a journey that could prove disastrous for the Norse and Orkney people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMarillier, Juliet.
Summary: Longing to become a Wolfskin warrior in the service of the god Thor, young Eyving sets out with his older brother to a fabled land, where he finds the seer Nessa and is bound by a childhood oath to kill the only thing he has ever loved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2003
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Summary: The author relates her return home to her family's Orkney sheep farm at the age of thirty, after a decade of heavy drinking in London, where she discovered the natural healing she needed to put her on the path to recovery from addiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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Summary: While honeymooning on the Orkney Islands with his new wife, a woman 40 years his junior, a literature professor becomes consumed by his mysterious bride who distracts him from his life's work--a book about enchantment-narratives in literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SACPhelan, Matt
Summary: Yearning for adventure, the young Knights of the Round Table are drawn to Orkney, Scotland, where they face a kraken and other monsters, including Queen Margause and her son, Mordred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019