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140 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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23 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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7 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"-- Provided by publisher.
"Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and to devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena...
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239 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
25 copies, 74 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
16 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
16 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
Description
"When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave--only to discover...
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Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 1
On Shelf
68 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
FERGUS
1 available
FERGUS
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman who travels west in 1875 and marries the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One thousand white women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that...
24) The orchardist
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75 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
COPLIN
1 available
COPLIN
1 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
eAudiobook
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, reclusive orchardist William Talmadge tends to his apples and apricots. One day, two teenaged girls steal his fruit and later return to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and pregnant, they take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his reservoir of compassion. But just as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns...
25) Painted horses
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23 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and fate, and of heritage threatened by progress. Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana with a huge task before her--a canyon "as...
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On Shelf
97 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
BIO NAFISI
1 available
BIO NAFISI
1 available
Available Online
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about...
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On Shelf
96 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
CHEVALIER
1 available
CHEVALIER
1 available
Description
From the New York Times bestselling novelist, a stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever.
On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers...
On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers...
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Series
African trilogy (Chinua Achebe) volume 1
On Shelf
183 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
ACHEBE
1 available
ACHEBE
1 available
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Youth Room
YA (PB) ACHEBE
1 available
YA (PB) ACHEBE
1 available
Available Online
6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
First published in 1959, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.
Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It...
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5 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 67 people are on the wait list.
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9 copies, 67 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets...
Author
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87 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Ludlow Hubbard Memorial Library - Adult Stacks
BROOKS
1 available
BROOKS
1 available
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Description
This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village, " in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna...
