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Costanza

Blackmore, Rachel2024
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Rome, 1636. In the scorched city of Rome, the cobbled streets hum with gossip and sin. Costanza Piccolomini is a respectable young wife - until she meets Gianlorenzo Bernini, the famed sculptor and star of Roman society, whose jet-black gaze matches his dark temper. From the second they set eyes ...
[2 copies, 0 available, 6 reserves]
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A court of betrayal

O'Brien, Anne, 1949-2024
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The Welsh Marches, 1301. Strong-willed heiress Johane de Geneville is married to Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, at just fifteen years old. Soon Johane finds herself swept up in a world of treacherous court politics and dangerous secrets as her husband deposes Edward II and rules England alongside...
[11 copies, 5 available, 1 reserve]
List view record 23: The curse of Pietro HoudiniList view anchor tag for record 23: The curse of Pietro Houdini
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The curse of Pietro Houdini

Miller, Derek B., 1970-2024
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The bombing of Rome in 1943 leaves fourteen-year-old Massimo orphaned and with no choice but to set out on a perilous journey to find his remaining family in Naples. A chance meeting with the mysterious and charismatic Pietro Houdini will deliver both of them to the doors of the monastery of Mont...
List view record 24: The dance treeList view anchor tag for record 24: The dance tree
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The dance tree

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990-2022
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In Strasbourg, in the boiling hot summer of 1518, a plague strikes the women of the city. First it is just one - a lone figure, dancing in the main square - but she is joined by more and more and the city authorities declare an emergency. Musicians will be brought in. The devil will be danced out...
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Dark tides

Gregory, Philippa2020
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Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home.
[11 copies, 10 available]
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Death on the Lusitania

Graham, R. L.2024
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New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world's most luxurious trans-Atlantic liners, departs for Liverpool and war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her Majesty's government tasked with discreetly escorting a British diplomat back to England in relation...
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Deception

Pearse, Lesley2023
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What happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception? After the funeral of her mother, Sally, Alice Kent is approached by a man named Angus Tweedy. He claims to be her father and tells her that he served time in prison for marrying Sally bigamously. What does he hope to gain te...
[14 copies, 11 available]
List view record 28: The defectorList view anchor tag for record 28: The defector
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The defector

Hadfield, Chris, 1959-2024
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The Sinai desert, 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MIG fighter is racing at breakneck speed over the arid scrublands below - and promptly disappears. NASA Flight Controller and former US Navy test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches the scene from the ground - and is...
[12 copies, 7 available]
List view record 29: A dictator calls : the mystery of the Stalin-Pasternak telephone callList view anchor tag for record 29: A dictator calls : the mystery of the Stalin-Pasternak telephone call
List view record 30: The disenchantmentList view anchor tag for record 30: The disenchantment
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The disenchantment

Bell, Celia2024
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Everyone connected to the court of Louis XIV has something to hide. For the Baroness Marie Catherine, it is the pleasures she seeks outside of her unhappy marriage, indulging in a more liberated existence of decadent salons and discussions with writers and scholars. At the centre of her illicit f...
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