Patrick, Denise Lewis.
Summary: Cécile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PATGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: In 1914 New York City, nine-year-old Rebecca is determined to show her family that she is old enough to light the Shabbos candles and go to the movies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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Summary: In an alternate America, princesses Beatrice and Samantha Washington and the two girls wooing their brother, Prince Jefferson, become embroiled in high drama in the most glorious court in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCGShaw, Janet.
Summary: "Taking place in 1854, Kirsten's stories follow the young Swedish immigrant and her family as they attempt to start a new life on a farm in frontier Minnesota. This collection includes: Meet Kirsten, Kirsten Learns a Lesson, Kirsten's Surprise, Happy Birthday, Kirsten!, Kirsten Saves the Day, and Changes for Kirsten."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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Summary: In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of personality and psychological relationships. As the history progresses over three generations, Stein also meditates on her own writing, on the making of The Making of Americans, and on America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STETripp, Valerie
Summary: While her father is away fighting in World War II, Molly finds her life full of change as she eats terrible vegetables from the victory garden and plans revenge on her brother for ruining her Halloween.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PLEAS 0000
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRITripp, Valerie
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Publisher / Publication Date: PLEAS 0000
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRISummary: Starting with the 2021, the annual short story anthology will now become The Best American Mystery and Suspense and the new series editor, Steph Cha, and best-selling guest editor, Alafair Burke, will select the best short mystery and suspense fiction of the year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2009 in graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BESGaiman, Neil
Summary: "Shadow and Wednesday leave the House on the Rock and continue their journey across the country where they set up aliases, meet new gods, and prepare for war."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC 2019
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Summary: Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JONSummary: A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Rich Larson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.McDonald, Megan.
Summary: After her parents divorce, fun-loving San Francisco girl Julie moves away from her best friend Ivy to start over again in a new house and school. But before long, she learns to create a few changes of her own--from saving endangered eagles to celebrating the U.S. Bicentennial.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MCDTripp, Valerie
Summary: Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRIGaiman, Neil
Summary: "The new and old gods agree to meet in the center of America to exchange the body of the old gods' fallen leader--heading towards to the inevitable god war in this final arc to the bestselling comic series!" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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Summary: The final volume of The Kent Family Chronicles, following family members as they race for wealth, leaving young Will to redeem Philip Kent's American dream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAKShaw, Janet Beeler
Summary: In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Percé Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company 2002
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Summary: Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family experience many hardships as they travel from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AMGLP 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of "Less," the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022