Suzanne Toren
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series with new crimes that span decades. 1952. Millers Kill Police Chief Harry McNeil is called to a crime scene where a woman in a party dress has been murdered with no obvious cause of death. 1972. Millers Kill Police Chief Jack Liddle is called to a murder scene of a woman that's very similar to one he worked as a trooper in the 50s....
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A National Book Award finalist and instant fantasy classic about the power of community, generosity, books, and baked goods, from the author of the beloved Newbery Medal winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon.
Stone-in-the-Glen, once a lovely town, has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the people to lose their library, their school, their park, and even their neighborliness. The people put their...64) Sweet water
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
285, 18 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Cassie Simon is a struggling artist living in New York City. When she receives a call from a magistrate telling her she has inherited sixty acres of land in Sweetwater, Tennessee, from her grandfather, whom she never knew, she takes it as a sign: it's time for a change. She moves to the small Southern town where her mother, Ellen, grew up--and where she died tragically when Cassie was three. From the moment she arrives in Sweetwater, Cassie is overwhelmed...
Author
Series
Gaslight mysteries (Victoria Thompson) volume 22
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 21
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 22
Gaslight Mystery
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 21
(Victoria E.).Gaslight mystery volume 22
Gaslight Mystery
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As 1899 draws to a close, Frank and Sarah Malloy are ready to celebrate the New Year--and century--at Trinity Church when they notice Mr. Pritchard, a neighbor's relative, behaving oddly and annoying the other revelers. When Frank tries to intervene and convince Pritchard to return home with them, he refuses and Frank loses him in the crowd. The next morning Sarah and Frank are horrified to learn Pritchard was murdered sometime in the night, his body...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy's friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive. . . . A young woman is missing in the upper Manhattan neighborhood called Italian Harlem, and everyone knows who��s responsible--the Black Hand, a notorious group known for terrorizing their own community with violence and kidnappings. Gino and Frank set out to learn more about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the latest from the national bestselling author of Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue, former police sergeant Frank Malloy and his wife adjust to life in New York high society as they investigate a death in the field of higher learning... A Gaslight Mystery After spending his first few weeks as a private detective by investigating infidelities of the wealthy, Frank has a more serious case at hand. Abigail Northrup of Tarrytown, New York, was her parents'...
68) Never change
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
214 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifty-one-year-old Myra Lipinsky is content with her dog and her career as a visiting nurse until Chip Reardon returns. Chip was the boy Myra adored in high school. Now terminally ill, he has returned to their New England hometown to spend the rest of his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank Malloy, a detective in turn-of-the-century New York, calls upon midwife Sarah Brandt for help when he is assigned to investigate the murder of Nehemiah Wooten, a Harvard scholar who opposed his hearing impaired daughter Electra's plans to marry a teacher at the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb because of his belief that she and her husband would have children who were also hearing impaired.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Victoria Thompson's Murder on Waverly Place, midwife-sleuth Sarah Brandt is surprised by her mother's desire to attend séances in an undesirable section of New York City. During one dark session, death strikes a participant while all are holding hands around the table. Now it's up to Sarah-and her detective sergeant friend-to deliver her mom from scandal and ferret out the murderer.
Author
Series
French village mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After three years of living in the small town of Reigny-sur-Canne, all Katherine Goff really wants is to be accepted by her neighbors into their little community. But as an American expat living in the proud region of Burgundy, that's no easy task. When the elderly Frenchman who lives in the village chateau is found dead at the bottom of a staircase, the town is turned into a hot bed of gossip and suspicion, and Katherine suddenly finds herself drawn...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote, this book documents the milestones in the hard-won struggle and reflects on women's impact on politics since.
From the birth of our nation to the recent crushing defeat of the first female presidential candidate, this book highlights women's impact on United States politics and government. It documents the fight for women's right to vote,...
From the birth of our nation to the recent crushing defeat of the first female presidential candidate, this book highlights women's impact on United States politics and government. It documents the fight for women's right to vote,...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ulli is a young woman squatting in a dismal, empty Berlin apartment, one year after the war has ended. She's scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual, asthmatic Isaac, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York....
74) Not my boy
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Who will you cross to protect your own?
When Hannah packs up her past and moves to the cottage next-door to her sister, she hopes the luxe neighborhood and close family ties will be the perfect escape for her son and the shadows that trail them. But when a young girl goes missing days after they unload their final boxes and her son is quickly thrown under suspicion, Hannah must do whatever it takes to protect her child.
Even if that means pointing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1990, c1987
Edition
1st Aladdin Books ed.
Physical Desc
46 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Henry and his big dog Mudge, spring means admiring the first snow glory, playing in puddles in the rain, and watching the five new kittens next door.
76) All but my life
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
All but My Life is the basis for the HBO Academy Award® winning best documentary short, One Survivor Remembers.
This is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz, Poland, to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops—including the man who was to become her husband—in Volary, Czechoslovakia, Gerda takes us on a terrifying
...Author
Publisher
Reagan Arthur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape her parents' ugly divorce and a former best friend's vicious cyber-bullying, thirteen-year-old Natalie bonds with widowed librarian Kathleen over the diary of an early twentieth-century Boston maid.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In nineteenth-century New York City, a wealthy newlywed is found bludgeoned to death with his wife cradling his body, too horrified to speak. The police charge her with murder and it's up to the other members of the newly formed household to do some detective work to solve the mystery"--
When a family friend's traumatized daughter is accused of murdering her new husband, newlyweds Sarah Brandt and Detective Frank Malloy investigate with the assistance...
Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 3
Publisher
Lizzie Skurnick Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Reissue edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The continuing adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew; a single uncle findss romance; World War I approaches and the family heads to Rockaway Beach to avoid infection during an outbreak of infantile paralysis.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliché, Eva Braun was a capricious but uncompromising, fiercely loyal companion to Hitler; theirs was a relationship that flew in the face of the Führer’s proclamations that Germany was his only bride. Görtemaker...