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1996., Bantam Call No: Fic Coo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set on the Northumbrian coast in the 1960s during the course of one day. The consequences of an innocent meeting between two young people are far more significant than the event itself.
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c2013., General, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Gri Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is comingashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest niece. She has the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world--of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing human nature and predicting what will happen next--that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. She establishes herself as the king's seer. And she is indispensable--until she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, her family, her loved ones, and the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the worldand see the future. Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early medieval age--all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith's luminous prose. Recalling such feats of historical fiction as Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, Hild brings a beautiful, brutal world--and one of its most fascinating, pivotal figures, the girl who would become St. Hilda of Whitby--to vivid, absorbing life"--Publisher.
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By Ware, Ruth2015., Adult, Simon & Schuster Canada Call No: MYS Fic War Edition: 1st Scout Press hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend takes a sinister turn when a friend she hasn't seen in years invites reclusive writer Leonora to visit an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside.
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2022., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Mac Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands. In an isolated retreat, deep in the Northumbria moors, three women arrive for a weekend getaway. Their husbands will be joining them in the morning. Or so they think. But when they get to Dark Fell Barn, the women find a devastating note that claims one of their husbands has been murdered. Their phones are out of range. There's no internet. They're stranded. And a storm's coming in. Friendships fracture and the situation spins out of control as each wife tries to find out what's going on, who is responsible and which husband has been targeted. This was a tight-knit group. They've survived a lot. But they won't weather this. Because someone has decided that enough is enough. That it's time for a reckoning.
