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The Patchwork Players. by Chiaverini, Jennifer.;
In 'The Patchwork Players' the cast of a smash TV show arrives at a quilters retreat for week of camaraderie and creativity that takes some surprising twists.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION / Feminist; FICTION / Friendship; FICTION / Historical / General; FICTION / Women;

Enlightenment A Novel [electronic resource] : by Perry, Sarah.aut; cloudLibrary;
“Like A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic....a heartfelt paean to the consolations of the sublime, where religion and science meet." -- Telegraph "Read it, then read it again. This is a book full of unexpected wonders." -- Literary Review From the author of The Essex Serpent, a dazzling novel of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends. Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits—torn between their commitment to religion and their desire to explore the world beyond their small Baptist community. It is two romantic relationships that will rend their friendship, and in the wake of this rupture, Thomas develops an obsession with a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and Grace flees Aldleigh entirely for London. Over the course of twenty years, by coincidence and design, Thomas and Grace will find their lives brought back into orbit as the mystery of the vanished astronomer unfolds into a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit. Thomas and Grace will ask themselves what it means to love and be loved, what is fixed and what is mutable, how much of our fate is predestined and written in the stars, and whether they can find their way back to each other. A thrillingly ambitious novel of friendship, faith, and unrequited love, rich in symmetry and symbolism, Enlightenment is a shimmering wonder of a book and Sarah Perry’s finest work to date. 
Subjects: Electronic books.; Historical; Literary; Ghost; Gothic; Historical;
© 2024., HarperCollins,

Don't Sleep with the Dead [electronic resource] : by Vo, Nghi.aut; Barnett, Greg D..nrt; CloudLibrary;
From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby. “A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic. . . . I was captivated from the first sentence.”―NPR on The Chosen and the Beautiful Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He's good at watching, and he's even better at pretending: pretending to be straight, pretending to be human, pretending he's forgotten the events of that summer in 1922. On the eve of the second World War, however, Nick learns that someone's been watching him pretend and that memory goes both ways. When he sees a familiar face one very dark night, it quickly becomes clear that dead or not, damned or not, Jay Gatsby isn't done with him. In all paper there is memory, and Nick's ghost has come home. A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Literary; Historical;
© 2025., Macmillan Audio,

Don't Sleep with the Dead [electronic resource] : by Vo, Nghi.aut; CloudLibrary;
From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining of The Great Gatsby. “A vibrant and queer reinvention of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age classic. . . . I was captivated from the first sentence.”―NPR on The Chosen and the Beautiful Nick Carraway―paper soldier and novelist―has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He's good at watching, and he's even better at pretending: pretending to be straight, pretending to be human, pretending he's forgotten the events of that summer in 1922. On the eve of the second World War, however, Nick learns that someone's been watching him pretend and that memory goes both ways. When he sees a familiar face one very dark night, it quickly becomes clear that dead or not, damned or not, Jay Gatsby isn't done with him. In all paper there is memory, and Nick's ghost has come home. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Historical;
© 2025., Tor Publishing Group,

Wolf Worm. by Kingfisher, T.;
The year is 1899 and when the reclusive Dr. Halder offers Sonia Wilson a position illustrating his vast collection of insects, Sonia jumps at the chance to move to his North Carolina manor house. But she soon finds that there are darker things at work than the Carolina woods. What happened to her predecessor? Why are animals acting so strangely, and what is behind the peculiar local whispers about blood thiefs?Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Horror fiction.; FICTION; FICTION / Gothic; FICTION / Historical / 19th Century / General;

The Death of Shame [electronic resource] : by Parry, Ambrose.aut; CloudLibrary;
1854, Edinburgh. Respectable faces hide private sins. Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven’s emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a relative seeks her help in searching for her missing daughter. Annabel Banks was promised a situation in a prestigious household, but there has been no word from her since she left home, and the agency that arranged her position says she never appeared. Sarah’s inquiries lead her to reforming campaigners trying to publicise the plight of the hundreds of girls ensnared in Edinburgh’s houses of assignation. Sarah learns how young women are lured, deceived, trafficked and raped, leaving them ruined in the eyes of a society obsessed with moral purity, and where virginity is prized as a lucrative commodity. Drawing upon real historical events, The Death of Shame takes Raven and Sarah into a treacherous labyrinth of exploitation, corruption, and immorality.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Historical; Historical; Historical;
© 2025., Canongate Books,

The Hadacol Boogie. by Burke, James Lee.;
Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke's iconic detective, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman, pulling him into a vortex ofcorruption and violence in the Louisiana bayou When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's property, he knows his world and family are about to change. With Valerie Benoit, a detective new to the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department who is grappling with sexist and racist harassment from their colleagues, and the volatile but fiercely loyal Clete Purcel, Dave embarks on an investigation that brings him into the most dangerous moments of his career and threatens the lives of Valerie and his daughter Alafair. He encounters a local handyman who leaves cryptic notes and warns of the ghosts who roam the shores of the bayou and is targeted by a vicious New Orleans button man and gangsters from the north. Through brilliant prose and a quintessential cast of characters, James Lee Burke weaves a portrait of a gritty, violent Louisiana at the turn of the 20th century. Visceral, atmospheric, and wholly original, The Hadacol Boogie brings to life Dave Robicheaux's fierce determination to confront evil both past and present.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Crime; FICTION / Southern; FICTION / Thrillers / Historical;

A Far-flung Life. by Stedman, M. L.;
'A Far-Flung Life' is a breathtaking and epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia - about tragedy, family secrets, and and what the heart can endure for the sake of love. From the author of 'The Light Between Oceans'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION / Historical / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Sagas;

A Far-flung Life [sound recording]. by Stedman, M. L.;
'A Far-Flung Life' is a breathtaking and epic novel set in the vast outback of Australia - about tragedy, family secrets, and and what the heart can endure for the sake of love. From the author of 'The Light Between Oceans'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Audiobooks.; FICTION / Historical / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Sagas;

Treasure : Book Twelve of the Circle of Ceridwen Saga. by Randolph, Octavia.;
Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Historical fiction.; FICTION / Action & Adventure; FICTION / Historical / General;

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