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Somerville East - Adult
FIC Penner, Sarah
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FIC Penner, Sarah
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FIC Penner, Sarah
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FIC Penner, Sarah
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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...
2) 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, 27 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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63 copies, 645 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. 1 copy on order.
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"A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of...
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Somerville - New Books
FIC Davies, Carys
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FIC Davies, Carys
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Somerville East - New Books
FIC Davies, Carys
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FIC Davies, Carys
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4 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
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"John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted. Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff...
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6) The fraud
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8 copies on order.
Somerville - Adult
FIC Smith, Zadie
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FIC Smith, Zadie
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Somerville West - Adult
FIC Smith, Zadie
1 available
FIC Smith, Zadie
1 available
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Somerville - Large Print
LT FIC Smith, Zadie
1 available
LT FIC Smith, Zadie
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Somerville East - Large Print
LT FIC Smith, Zadie
1 available
LT FIC Smith, Zadie
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
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Somerville East - Adult
FIC Ward, Jesmyn
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FIC Ward, Jesmyn
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Somerville West - Adult
FIC Ward, Jesmyn
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FIC Ward, Jesmyn
2 available
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17 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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17 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
8) Beloved
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103 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Somerville - Adult
FIC Morrison, Toni
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FIC Morrison, Toni
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Somerville - Young Adult
YA FIC Morrison, Toni
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YA FIC Morrison, Toni
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Somerville West - Adult
FIC Morrison, Toni
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FIC Morrison, Toni
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8 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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Somerville - Large Print
LT FIC Morrison, Toni
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LT FIC Morrison, Toni
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Somerville West - Large Print
LT FIC Morrison, Toni
1 available
LT FIC Morrison, Toni
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
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African trilogy (Chinua Achebe) volume 1
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Somerville - Adult
FIC Achebe, Chinua
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FIC Achebe, Chinua
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Somerville - Young Adult
YA FIC Achebe, Chinua
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YA FIC Achebe, Chinua
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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.
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"When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law. Johanna inherited Vincent van Gogh's paintings. They were all she had, and they weren't worth anything. She was a 28 year old widow with a baby in the 1800s, without any means...
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"Fearless reporter Nellie Bly will stop at nothing to chase down stories that expose injustices against women-even if it comes at the risk of her own life and freedom-in this exciting novel inspired by the true story of one remarkable woman. In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional, respectable and delicate to do the job. But then the New...
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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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"The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists-a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extraordinary gift-whose lives collide in the wake of a devastating fire in the American West For the citizens of Spokane Falls, the fire of 1889 that destroyed their frontier boomtown was no disaster; it was an opportunity. Barton Heydale, manager of the only bank in Spokane Falls, is on the verge of ending his short, unpopular life. But when his city goes...
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42 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Somerville - Adult
FIC Shearer, Eleanor
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FIC Shearer, Eleanor
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...
15) Inland: a novel
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Somerville - Adult
FIC Obreht, Tea
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FIC Obreht, Tea
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Somerville East - Adult
FIC Obreht, Tea
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FIC Obreht, Tea
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Somerville West - Adult
FIC Obreht, Téa
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FIC Obreht, Téa
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"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
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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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Mischief and matchmaking volume 1
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6 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.
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A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed!
Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea.
It's 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband,
...18) Mortal follies
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"A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this sapphic romance set 1814"--
It is the year 1814 and life for a young lady of good breeding has many difficulties. There are balls to attend, fashions to follow, marriages to consider and, of course, the tiny complication of existing in a world swarming with fairy spirits, interfering deities, and actual straight-up sorcerers. Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds her entry...
19) Trouble: a novel
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble. Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she's not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life. This position was meant to be her sister's--brilliant, kind Amy, who isn't perpetually angry, dangerously reckless, and who does (inexplicably) like children. But Amy is unwell and needs a doctor, their father is gone and their mother is useless, so here...
20) Libertie
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Somerville East - Adult
FIC Greenidge, Kaitlyn
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FIC Greenidge, Kaitlyn
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Somerville West - Adult
FIC Greenidge, Kaitlyn
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FIC Greenidge, Kaitlyn
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Somerville - Large Print
LT FIC Greenidge, Kaitlyn
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LT FIC Greenidge, Kaitlyn
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"Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be...