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African Americans Segregation Fiction Detroit (Mich.) History 20th century Fiction Great Britain Immigrants Michigan Detroit History 20th century Fiction Large type books North Carolina Fiction North Carolina History 20th century Fiction North Carolina Race relations Fiction Young adult fiction Young women Michigan Detroit History 20th century FictionJenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENGeorge, Margaret
Summary: With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side, Nero Augustus commands the Roman empire, ushering in an unprecedented era of artistic and cultural splendor. Although he has yet to produce an heir, his power is unquestioned. But in the tenth year of his reign, a terrifying prophecy comes to pass and a fire engulfs Rome, reducing entire swaths of the city to rubble. Rumors of Nero's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GeorgeSmith, Colby Cedar
Summary: Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith's maternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as she and her family emigrate from Greece to Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILSee, Lisa
Summary: "According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations--looking, listening, touching, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SeeWein, Elizabeth
Summary: A German soldier risks his life to drop off the sought-after Enigma Machine to British Intelligence, hiding it in a pub in a small town in northeast Scotland. Louisa Adair, a teen girl hired to look after the pub owner's elderly, German-born aunt, Jane Warner, finds it but doesn't report it. Flight-Lieutenant Jamie Beaufort-Stuart intercepts a signal but can't figure it out. Ellen McEwen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WEICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Wein 2020Mangel, C. P.
Summary: "When Titus Horace, successful African American author, inherits a large tract of land, he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa, and moves to the segregated North Carolina of 1950. Unhappy at being uprooted from her school and friends, Asa quickly learns how persons of color are intimidated and humiliated on a daily basis and how, despite their education and talent,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mangel 2019Meek, James
Summary: "Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman is fleeing an odious arranged marriage, a Scottish proctor is returning home to Avignon and a handsome young ploughman in search of adventure is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. Coming in their direction from across the Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEEGregory, Philippa
Summary: "The "sweeping" (Parade) and "superb" (People) Fairmile series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in 17th-century England. It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRETarshis, Lauren
Summary: Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode. An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wants to devour everything in its path, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION TARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J SeriesTarshisHealey, Jane
Summary: "Paris, 1939. Hollywood actress Drue Leyton, married to Frenchman Jacques Tartière, lives as an expatriate in love. But when her husband is dispatched to Brittany to work as a liaison for the British military, Drue finds herself alone with her housekeeper, adrift and heartsick in her adopted city. With her career and fame forty-five hundred miles away, Drue accepts an opportunity that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HEAHenry, Patti Callahan
Summary: "In the war-torn London of 1939, fourteen-year-old Hazel and five-year-old Flora are evacuated to a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the kind Bridie Aberdeen and her teenage son, Harry, in a charming stone cottage along the River Thames, Hazel fills their days with walks and games to distract her young sister, including one that she creates for her sister...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023