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Pillars of the Earth volume 1
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10 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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The power struggles and personal drama surrounding the design and construction of a cathedral in twelfth-century England, led by Philip, prior of Knightsbridge, his stonemason Tom, and the haunted Lady Aliena.
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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
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Somerville East - Adult
FIC Penner, Sarah
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FIC Penner, Sarah
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Somerville West - Adult
FIC Penner, Sarah
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FIC Penner, Sarah
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3 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
4) Outlander
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Outlander novels volume 1
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Somerville - Adult
Gabaldon, Diana
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Gabaldon, Diana
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Somerville - Young Adult
YA FIC Gabaldon, Diana
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YA FIC Gabaldon, Diana
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15 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
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Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.
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2 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.
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"The classic first novel of the epic Aubrey/Maturin series, widely considered "the best historical novels ever written" (Richard Snow, New York Times). Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile-after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel-Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on-his-luck physician, Stephen Maturin, strike up an...
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Somerville - Adult
FIC Kidd, Jess
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FIC Kidd, Jess
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Somerville East - Adult
FIC Kidd, Jess
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FIC Kidd, Jess
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FIC Kidd, Jess
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FIC Kidd, Jess
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1629. A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. 1989. A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing...
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4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
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Somerville East - Adult
FIC Gilbert, Elizabeth
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FIC Gilbert, Elizabeth
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FIC Gilbert, Elizabeth
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FIC Gilbert, Elizabeth
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2 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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Somerville - Large Print
LT FIC Gilbert Elizabeth
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LT FIC Gilbert Elizabeth
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Somerville West - Audiovisual
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MEDIA BOOK FIC GILBERT
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"Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College,...