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Wiesel, Elie

Summary: Tormented by feelings of loss and dispossession after spending his life fleeing first the Nazis and then the 1956 Russian invasion of Hungary, Gamaliel Friedman settles in New York, where he meets a fellow group of exiles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIE

Cahn, Jonathan.

Summary: "The Harbinger opens with the appearance of a man burdened with a message he has received from a mysterious figure called The Prophet. The Prophet has given him nine seals, each containing a message about America's future ... As the story unfolds, each revelation becomes a piece in a greater puzzle -- the ramifications of which will even alter the course of world history."--Publisher's website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: FrontLine 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAH

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAH

Doctorow, E. L.

Summary: In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then to the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities and accumulating a borne-along population of freed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOC

O'Dell, Scott

Summary: The Spanish slavers came first, later the soldiers forced the Navajos of the Canyon to join their Indian brothers on the devastation long march to Fort Sumner; through the eyes of Bright Morning, a young Navajo girl, we see what can happen to human beings when they are uprooted from the life they know.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1998

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction O'Dell 1998

Glancy, Diane.

Summary: Maritole, one of the many thousands of Cherokees who were uprooted from their homes after being betrayed by the U.S. government, struggles to survive on the forced march along the Trail of Tears, while searching to understand why this has happened to her people.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLA

Oh, Axie

Summary: This enthralling feminist retelling of the classic Korean folktale "The Tale of Shim Cheong" is perfect for fans of Wintersong, Uprooted, and Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OH

Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson

Summary: Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevel's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted form their backwoods home, she and her family were thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie would battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she held most precious--her children,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARN

Dickens, Charles

Summary: The Victorian tale of Little Nell, a girl who is uprooted from her secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world of evil when she and her grandfather are pursued relentlessly through England by the evil and loathsome dwarf Quilp.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1972

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIC

Drouillard, Staci Lola

Summary: Chronicles the changes brought upon a beloved family tree that must be uprooted and planted on new land.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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