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Princeton Area Library - Fiction
GIO
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GIO
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Rush City Public Library - Fiction
GIO
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GIO
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"Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte--ninth daughter and sixteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria--knows her position as a Hapsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her beloved country. But not yet. The Hapsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte's older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples, and will soon take her place as queen. Before Josepha can journey...
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McGregor Public Library - Fiction
FOW
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FOW
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North Branch Area Library - Fiction
FOW
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FOW
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Pine City Public Library - Fiction
FOW
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FOW
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Sandstone Public Library - Large Print
Lg.print FOW
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Lg.print FOW
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"From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth--breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean...
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The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America's most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy. 1953, New York City. Less than a week before the society wedding of the year where Jacqueline Bouvier will marry John F. Kennedy, a pipe bursts at Ann Lowe's dress shop and ruins eleven dresses, including the expensive...
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Cambridge Public Library - Fiction
ALE
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ALE
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Chisago Lakes Area Library - Fiction
ALE
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ALE
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Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own, and a future for her family. When she moves to Edenton, North Carolina from the plantation where she was born, she is free, newly married, and ready to follow her dreams. As the demands of lifepull Josephine's attention-deepening her marriage, mothering her daughters, supporting her grandmother-she struggles to balance her real estate aspirations with the realities of keeping life going...
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Chisago Lakes Area Library - Fiction
GRA
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GRA
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North Branch Area Library - Fiction
GRA
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GRA
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Princeton Area Library - Fiction
GRA
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GRA
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Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your psyche. There's a joy to it. In retrospect, it's frightening, but I daresay in the moment it feels sweet. The way justice feels sweet." The greatest mystery wasn't Agatha...
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Cambridge Public Library - Fiction
PAU
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PAU
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McGregor Public Library - Fiction
PAU
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PAU
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North Branch Area Library - Book on CD
CDB PAU
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CDB PAU
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Mora Public Library - Large Print
Lg.Print PAU
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Lg.Print PAU
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Lady Evelyn Herbert was the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, brought up in stunning Highclere Castle. Popular and pretty, she seemed destined for a prestigious marriage, but she had other ideas. Instead, she left behind the world of society balls and chaperones to travel to the Egyptian desert, where she hoped to become a lady archaeologist, working alongside her father and Howard Carter in the hunt for an undisturbed tomb. In November 1922, their...
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Aitkin Public Library - Fiction
KEN
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KEN
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Cambridge Public Library - Fiction
KEN
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KEN
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Chisago Lakes Area Library - Fiction
KEN
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KEN
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Wyoming Area Giese Memorial Library - Large Print
Lg.Print KEN
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Lg.Print KEN
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"Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England's most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself--or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Even on the other...
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Mille Lacs Lake Community Library - Fiction
BEN
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BEN
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North Branch Area Library - Fiction
BEN
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BEN
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Rush City Public Library - Fiction
BEN
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BEN
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Milaca Community Library - Large Print
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Lg.Print BEN
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Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture-one more after thousands-she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens-the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens...
9) Jackie & me
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Cambridge Public Library - Fiction
BAY
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BAY
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Chisago Lakes Area Library - Fiction
BAY
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BAY
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"A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings"--
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Cambridge Public Library - Fiction
KRA
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KRA
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Mora Public Library - Fiction
KRA
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KRA
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North Branch Area Library - Fiction
KRA
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KRA
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Estee, a seasoned curator for a small Massachusetts auction house, makes an astonishing find: the original manuscript of Sylvia Plath's semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, written by hand in her journals fifty-five years earlier. Plath's psychiatrist, Dr. Ruth Barnhouse, treats Plath during the dark days she spends at McLean Hospital following a suicide attempt, and eventually helps set the talented poet and writer on a path toward literary...
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Chisago Lakes Area Library - Fiction
PAT
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PAT
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Mora Public Library - Fiction
PAT
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PAT
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North Branch Area Library - Fiction
PAT
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PAT
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Milaca Community Library - Large Print
Lg.Print PAT
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Lg.Print PAT
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"Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you... So begins another average evening for Marjorie Merriweather Post. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Growing up in the modest farmlands of Battle Creek, Michigan, Marjorie was inspired by a few simple rules- always think for yourself, never take success for granted, and work hard-even when deemed American royalty, even while covered in imperial diamonds. Marjorie...
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Chisago Lakes Area Library - Fiction
KNI
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KNI
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Pine City Public Library - Fiction
KNI
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KNI
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Princeton Area Library - Large Print
Lg.Print KNI
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Lg.Print KNI
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"1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford's seemingly sparkling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill Bookshop in Mayfair, hoping to make ends meet, and discovers...
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Aitkin Public Library - Fiction
ABB
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ABB
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Milaca Community Library - Fiction
ABB
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ABB
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Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever. England, 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients, from rare spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead of the poetry she loves, she refuses-until her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country. As a woman, Eliza has few...
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Chisago Lakes Area Library - Fiction
MAH
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MAH
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North Branch Area Library - Fiction
MAH
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MAH
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Wyoming Area Giese Memorial Library - Fiction
MAH
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MAH
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Milaca Community Library - Large Print
Lg.Print MAH
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Lg.Print MAH
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"The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in White Gloves. When bookish young American Sylvia Beach opens Shakespeare and Company on a quiet street in Paris in 1919, she has no idea that she and her new bookstore will change the course of literature itself. Shakespeare and Company is more than...
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Pine City Public Library - Book on CD
CDB GRE
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CDB GRE
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Wyoming Area Giese Memorial Library - Large Print
Lg.Print GRE
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Lg.Print GRE
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From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided over a swirling ex-pat scene filled with music, art, free love and a counterculture taking root across the world. When Claire arrives in London from her small town, she never expects to cross paths with a woman as magnetic as Talitha Getty....