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Cameron, Sharon

Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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Steel, Danielle

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Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

Wright Faladé, David

Summary: "By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild--a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WRI

Ganeshram, Ramin

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Summary: Philadelphia 1793. Hercules, President George Washington's chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding general. He has his run of the city and earns twice the salary of an average American workingman. He wears beautiful clothes and attends the theater. But while valued by the Washingtons for his prowess in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ganeshram 2018

Asim, Jabari

Summary: They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASI

Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOL

Inouye Huey, Emily

Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INO

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INO

Myers, Adele

Summary: In 1946 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf's most influential women--the wives of powerful tobacco executives, uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MYE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MYE

Stratton, Richard (Richard H.)

Summary: In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Schwartz, John Burnham

Summary: "Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel is inspired by the true story of Svetlana Alliluyeva. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Allilyueva, the forty-one-year-old daughter of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Burke, James Lee

Summary: In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUR

Wiseman, Ellen Marie

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Summary: Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary--awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears--seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiseman

Shaara, Jeff

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Summary: "In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHA

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Kelly, Martha Hall

Summary: Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

Kass, Linda Stern

Summary: "Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie. Drawing on biographical and historical...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAS

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICCHI

Elliott, Laura

Summary: In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ELL

Whitehead, Colson

Summary: "As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone"... Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHI

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHI

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory. In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Pulishers 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHI

Cameron, Marc

Summary: 1985. A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer--invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. With the East German secret police closing...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLA

Benedict, Marie

Summary: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021

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Swinson, David

Summary: "In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence. Inquisitive and restless by nature, Graham suspects his State Department father is a CIA operative, and that their family's fragile domesticity is merely a front for American efforts along the nearby Israeli border. Over the course of one year,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWI

Gable, Michelle

Summary: "1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotnà is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers. Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers, and others--now nicknamed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAB

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