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Mrs. Lincoln's sisters / by Chiaverini, Jennifer,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In 1875, Elizabeth Todd Edwards is shocked to learn her estranged sister, Mary Todd Lincoln, has tried to take her own life. This event causes Elizabeth to look back on her fraught relationship with her famous sister.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882; Edwards, Elizabeth Todd, 1813-1888; Children of politicians; Governors' spouses; Sisters;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Starring Adele Astaire : a novel / by Knight, Eliza,author.;
From the glittering roaring '20s New York to the horrors and sacrifice of wartime London, this glamourous story follows Adele Astaire as she travels the world dancing with her brother, Fred, and finds her life intertwining with a young dancer whose hungerfor fame and fortune comes with a high price.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Astaire, Adele; Ambition; Man-woman relationships; Women dancers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Jacqueline in Paris : a novel / by Mah, Ann,author.;
"From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her as Jackie"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994; Americans; College students; Man-woman relationships; Women college students;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The forgotten names : a novel / by Escobar, Mario,1971-author.; Abernathy, Gretchen,translator.; translation of:Escobar, Mario,1971-Vidas perdidas.English.;
Includes bibliographical references."Based on the true story of one ordinary woman who risked everything to reunite Jewish children with the true names they hadn't even realized they'd lost"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Perthuis, Valérie; Jewish children in the Holocaust; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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ECW's Biographical guide to Canadian novelists / by David, Jack,1946-; Lecker, Robert,1951-; Quigley, Ellen,1955-;
Subjects: Novelists, Canadian (English); Canadian fiction (English);
© c1993., ECW Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Winnie's great war / by Mattick, Lindsay.; Greenhut, Josh.; Blackall, Sophie.;
Lieutenant Harry Colebourn finds a bear he names Winnie. He decides she will be the mascot for the Second Canadian Infantry Brigade and takes her with them across the ocean to where the Great War rages.LSC
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947; Winnipeg (Bear); World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918; Mascots;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The splendor before the dark [sound recording] : a novel of the Emperor Nero / by George, Margaret,1943-author.; West, Steve,narrator.; McEwan, Katharine,narrator.; Denaker, Susan,narrator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.; Books on Tape, Inc.,publisher.;
Read by Steve West, Katharine McEwan, and Susan Denaker.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68; Emperors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Act of Oblivion / by Harris, Robert,1957-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Follows General Edward Whalley's and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe's flight to America in 1660 after their involvement in the beheading of King Charles I.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649; Goffe, William, 1605?-1679?; Whalley, Edward, -1675?; Fugitives from justice; Regicide; Treason;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Marvelous : a novel / by Greeley, Molly,author.;
A novel set in the French royal court of Catherine de' Medici during the Renaissance follows Pedro Gonzales, an unusual man who, delivered by a slave broker into France's royal court, becomes the favorite of the queen who is determined to find him a bride.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589; Marriage;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My mother's secret : based on a true Holocaust story / by Witterick, J. L.;
In 1939, the Nazis come to Poland and start to persecute the Jews. Providing shelter to a Jew has become a death sentence, but despite this, Franciszka and her daughter hide Jewish families and a German soldier in their small home. For all of them to survive, she will have to outsmart the German commander and her neighbors.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Jewish fiction.; Hiding places; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945;
© 2013., Penguin Group,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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