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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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Three fires / by Mina, Denise,author.;
Reimaging the "Bonfire of the Vanities" through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the viceand avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498; Bonfires; Clergy;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The field [graphic novel] / by Lapp, Dave,1965-author,illustrator.;
Takes a look at a time when children stayed out until the streetlights came on - and exposes the dangers, quirks, and wildness of childhood in the 1970s.
Subjects: Biographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Graphic novels.; Personal narratives.; Lapp, Dave, 1965-; Boys; Children; Nineteen seventies; Small cities; Summer;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rhapsody / by Kaplan, Mitchell James,author.;
"A fact-based historical novel, as compelling as Nancy Horan's New York Times bestseller, Loving Frank, set primarily in New York City in the 1920s and '30s and inspired by the decade-long relationship between the celebrated composer George Gershwin and Kay Swift, who was both his romantic partner and a gifted musician in her own right"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Gershwin, George, 1898-1937; Swift, Kay, 1897-1993;
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 Tiffany girls : a novel / by Noble, Shelley,author.;
In 1899 Manhattan, three "Tiffany Girls," women responsible for much of the design and construction of Tiffany's extraordinary glassworks, are brought together by chance, driven by their desire to be artists in one of the only ways acceptable for women in their time.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Driscoll, Clara, 1861-1944; Tiffany Studios (New York, N.Y.); Women glass artists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The bookseller's secret : a novel / by Gable, Michelle,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Desperate for money, struggling young author Nancy Mitford takes a job managing the Heywood Hill bookshop, where she meets a mysterious French officer who has a compelling story to tell.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973; Women novelists, English; Bookstores;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Alchemy of a blackbird : a novel / by McMillan, Claire,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Fleeing the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her poet lover await exit papers from a safe house on the Riviera and take refuge in a mysterious bookshop that opens up a world of occult learning that sparks creative genius.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Carrington, Leonora, 1917-2011; Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963; Female friendship; Tarot; Women painters;
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The murderess : a novel / by Notaro, Laurie,author.;
It's October 1931. When Winnie Ruth Judd arrives at the Los Angeles train station from Phoenix, her shipping trunks catch the attention of a suspicious porter. By the time they're pried open, revealing the dismembered bodies of two women inside, Ruth has disappeared into the crowd.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Noir fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Judd, Winnie Ruth, 1905-; Murder; Murder; Murder; Women murderers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Reagan : an American journey / by Spitz, Bob,author.;
"From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a full and rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan both so beloved and so transformational. More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Bob Spitz's Reagan stands fair to be the first truly post-partisan biography of our 40th President, and thus a balm for our own bitterly divided times. It is the quintessential American triumph, brought to life with cinematic vividness: a young man is born into poverty and raised in a series of flyspeck towns in the Midwest by a pious mother and a reckless, alcoholic, largely absent father. Severely near-sighted, the boy lives in his own world, a world of the popular books of the day, and finds his first brush with popularity, even fame, as a young lifeguard. Thanks to his first great love, he imagines a way out, and makes the extraordinary leap to go to college, a modest school by national standards, but an audacious presumption in the context of his family's station. From there, the path is only very dimly lit, but it leads him, thanks to his great charm and greater luck, to a solid career as a radio sportscaster, and then, astonishingly, fatefully, to Hollywood. And the rest, as they say, is history. Bob Spitz's Reagan is an absorbing, richly detailed, even revelatory chronicle of the full arc of Ronald Reagan's epic life - giving full weight to the Hollywood years, his transition to politics and rocky but ultimately successful run as California governor, and ultimately, of course, his iconic presidency, filled with storm and stress but climaxing with his peace talks with the Soviet Union that would serve as his greatest legacy. It is filled with fresh assessments and shrewd judgments, and doesn't flinch from a full reckoning with the man's strengths and limitations. This is no hagiography: Reagan was never a brilliant student, of anything, and his disinterest in hard-nosed political scheming, while admirable, meant that this side of things was left to the other people in his orbit, not least his wife Nancy; sometimes this delegation could lead to chaos, and worse. But what emerges as a powerful signal through all the noise is an honest inherent sweetness, a gentleness of nature and willingness to see the good in people and in this country, that proved to be a tonic for America in his time, and still is in ours. It was famously said that FDR had a first-rate disposition and a second-rate intellect. Perhaps it is no accident that only FDR had as high a public approval rating leaving office as Reagan did, or that in the years since Reagan has been closing in on FDR on rankings of Presidential greatness. Written with love and irony, which in a great biography is arguably the same thing, Bob Spitz's masterpiece will give no comfort to partisans at either extreme; for the rest of us, it is cause for celebration"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Reagan, Ronald.; Presidents; Governors; Motion picture actors and actresses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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