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1) Heartwishes
Author
Series
Edilean series volume 5
Description
Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years--and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
Author
Series
Lottie Albright mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
417 p. (large print) ; 21 cm.
Description
When false accusations threaten senatorial candidate Hadley's career, secrets whispered to Lottie as editor of the county history books spur a personal search for his aunt's murderer. Will the cold case prove her merits as a deputy-- or endanger her life?
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
567 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A.S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book. Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with...
Author
Series
Eric Steele novels volume 3
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
490 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"Special operative Eric Steele hunts a foreign assassin targeting top-tier US military personnel in the third electrifying military thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of All Out War"--
5) Sashenka
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
522 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In early twentieth-century Russia, Sashenka Zeitlin becomes caught up in the revolutionary fervor destined to bring down the czar, as she deals with arrest and imprisonment, the bloody battles that engulf the country under Stalin, and a forbidden love affair.
Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
viii, 388 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Reveals the complex relationship between Mercy Otis Warren, wife of the president of the Provincial Congress, and John Adams, describing how her provocative writings made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.
Author
Series
All souls trilogy volume 3
Formats
Description
"After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when...
10) Bristol House
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
398, [3] p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
"[A] dual-period narrative [which] ... blends a haunting supernatural thriller with the vivid history of Tudor London, a place where monks are being executed, Jews have been banished, and the power of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell reaches into every corner of the kingdom"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
344 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A compelling alternate history of the Romanov family in which a secret fifth daughter--smuggled out of Russia before the revolution--continues the royal lineage to dramatic consequences. In her riveting debut novel, The Secret Daughter of the Tsar, Jennifer Laam seamlessly braids together the stories of three women: Veronica, Lena, and Charlotte. Veronica is an aspiring historian living in present-day Los Angeles when she meets a mysterious man who...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
268 pages
Description
"Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up is not only an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth -- in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return.' It is also a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s--her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as her books subsequently attest) has...
13) The lost king
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the archaeological find of a century, the remains of Richard III--presumed scattered over 500 years ago--were discovered under a parking lot in Leicester in 2012. The search was spearheaded by amateur historian Philippa Langley, whose passion and unrelenting research were met with skepticism by the academic establishment....The Lost King is the inspiring true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and took on Britain's most eminent historians,...
Author
Publisher
Redwood Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confrontsthe loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the importance of relationships-friendship, family, and romantic-as...
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