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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F ALVAR
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F ALVAR
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Marathon City - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F ALVAR
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F ALVAR
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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"It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a forth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F BENED
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F BENED
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Hatley - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F BENED
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F BENED
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Marathon City - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F BENED
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F BENED
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT BENED
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LT BENED
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Spencer - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT BENED
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LT BENED
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7 copies, 301 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 232 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 232 people are on the wait list.
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"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F BENJA
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F BENJA
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Edgar - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F BENJA
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F BENJA
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F BENJA
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F BENJA
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Hatley - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT BENJA
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LT BENJA
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Books on CD Fiction
CD BEN
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CD BEN
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5 copies, 94 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 90 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 90 people are on the wait list.
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"The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota Territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats-- leaving them unprepared when disaster struck. At the hour when most prairie schools were letting out for the day, a terrifying, fast-moving blizzard blew in without warning. Schoolteachers as young as sixteen...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F BLOOM
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F BLOOM
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Stratford - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F BLOOM
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F BLOOM
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"Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a...
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Based on the true story of his grandfather and two granduncles, Matt Bondurant's novel is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and its violent end. In 1935, Sherwood Anderson, working on a magazine story, finds himself driving along the...
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"In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross. Based on a true story. The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage--except six-year-old Hester,...
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4 copies, 45 people are on the wait list.
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The story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who ran her father's plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina in the 1700s and struck a bargain with the plantation's slaves--teach her how to make indigo and she would teach them to read.
8) Horse
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2 copies, 306 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 376 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 376 people are on the wait list.
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"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
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Key West, 1936. Headstrong, accomplished journalist Martha Gellhorn is confident with words but less so with men when she meets disheveled literary titan Ernest Hemingway in a dive bar. Their friendship--forged over writing, talk, and family dinners-- flourishes into something undeniable in Madrid while they're covering the Spanish Civil War. Martha reveres him. The very married Hemingway is taken with Martha-- her beauty, her ambition, and her fearless...
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When Cricket Lopez, assistant to one of the most notorious celebrity stylists, revamps her old fashion Instagram account on a drunken whim and turns it into a source for celebrity gossip, she never thinks it will become anything. But when the account grows overnight and, even wilder, when she starts getting gossip from fans and insiders--juicy gossip--she has to face facts: her Instagram is now famous. And she is now famous. Though no one knows that...
11) Winter work
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"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, about a Stasi officer investigating the murder of a colleague who is helped by Claire Saylor. Emil Grimm, a Stasi colonel, has decamped to his dacha in the woods outside of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a walk one morning, he discovers the body of a fellow intelligence officer with whom he was involved in a clandestine mission. Now Emil is...
12) Lilac girls
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Caroline Ferriday volume 1
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F KELLY
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F KELLY
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Athens - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F KELLY
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F KELLY
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Marathon City - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F KELLY
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F KELLY
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT KELLY
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LT KELLY
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Edgar - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT KELLY
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LT KELLY
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Hatley - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT KELLY
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LT KELLY
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Kits Book Discussion
BDK 34
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BDK 34
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Books on CD Fiction
CD KEL
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CD KEL
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Hatley - MCPL - Adult Books on CD Fiction
CD KEL
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CD KEL
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16 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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"Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from...
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3 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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Inspired by the true story of the last person to be executed in Iceland: a young woman accused of murder in 1829. Charged with the brutal murder of two men, Agnes Magn{MARC-8 Generic 250}sd̤ttir, has been removed to her homeland's farthest reaches, to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family on the farm avoids Agnes. Her arrival threatens the peaceful rhythm of their way of life, while...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F KIDD
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F KIDD
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Athens - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F KIDD
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F KIDD
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Edgar - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F KIDD
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F KIDD
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT KIDD
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LT KIDD
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Edgar - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT KIDD
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LT KIDD
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Hatley - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT KIDD
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LT KIDD
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11 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"The story follows Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F KNOLL
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F KNOLL
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Athens - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F KNOLL
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F KNOLL
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Stratford - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F KNOLL
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F KNOLL
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT KNOLL
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LT KNOLL
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Edgar - MCPL - Adult Books on CD Fiction
CD KNO
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CD KNO
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5 copies, 161 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 130 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 130 people are on the wait list.
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"January 15, 1978, is a night of promise, excitement, and desire. A serial killer's murderous spree in the Pacific Northwest couldn't be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee. That night, Pamela Schumacher, president of the sorority, makes the unpopular decision to stay home. Startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound, she makes the fateful decision to investigate....
16) Code name Hélène
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F LAWHO
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F LAWHO
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Mosinee - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F LAWHO
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F LAWHO
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Edgar - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT LAWHO
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LT LAWHO
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9 copies, 260 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 254 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 254 people are on the wait list.
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"Based on the thrilling real-life story of socialite spy Nancy Wake, comes the newest feat of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of 'I was Anastasia,' featuring the astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII."--
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Wolf Hall trilogy volume 1
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F MANTE
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F MANTE
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Athens - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F MANTE
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F MANTE
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13 copies, 57 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 133 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 133 people are on the wait list.
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Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price.
18) The Paris wife
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Athens - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F MCLAI
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F MCLAI
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Hatley - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F MCLAI
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F MCLAI
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction Large Print
LT MCLAI
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LT MCLAI
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In Chicago in 1920, 28-year-old Hadley Richardson meets Ernest Hemingway. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris and become the golden couple in a lively group of expatriates, including Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and Gerald and Sara Murphy. But as Hadley struggles with self-doubt and jealousy, Ernest wrestles with his burgeoning writing career and both must confront a deception that could...
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"A World War II novel about a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies"--
"Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb...
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Wausau - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F MOORE
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F MOORE
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Rothschild - MCPL - Adult Fiction
F MOORE
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F MOORE
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"A fictional retelling of the life of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who redefined the role of a princess in Victorian England"--
"Based on the true story of the free-spirited daughter of Queen Victoria. As a young woman, Princess Louise is considered the most beautiful and talented daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She is also strong-willed and resists following the queen's rigid rules...