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Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856-1919 Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) 1856-1919 Fiction Baum, Maud Gage Baum, Maud Gage Fiction Fantasy Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1822-1885 Fiction Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) 1807-1870 Fiction Man-woman relationships United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 FictionGarwood, W. R. (William R.)
Summary: "Texas Ranger John Ringold rides into Tombstone on detached service. His mission - to go undercover as John Ringo and stamp out the gangs ravaging Wells Fargo in a string of unsolved robberies and murder. Ringo tackles the desperate job of running down the night-riding bandits, headed by the mysterious robber chieftan "Saguro," only to find himself hurled into a head-on confrontation with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARChen, Katherine J.
Summary: "1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChenGingrich, Newt.
Summary: Newt Gingrich, former Congressman and student of Civil War history, has written an astounding book giving us an alternate history of the Civil War. On July 10th, 1863, Baltimore is in the hands of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee. Shattered remnants of the defeated Army of the Potomac have fallen back into Washington. Six days earlier, General Ulysses S. Grant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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Summary: "In twelfth century, Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik's beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-dappled courtyard. When Shaherazade recounts her first tale, the story of this infidelity, to the Malik, she sets the Seljuk Empire on fire. Enraged at his wife's betrayal, the once-gentle Malik beheads her. But when that killing does not quench his anger, the Malik...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AHMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC AHMHooper, Judith
Summary: "Arm yourself against my dawn, which may at any moment cast you and Harry into obscurity, Alice James writes her brother William in 1891. In Judith Hooper's magnificent book, zingers such as this fly back and forth between the endlessly articulate and letter-writing Jameses, all of whom are geniuses at gossiping. And the James family did, in fact, know everyone intellectually important on both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOAtkins, Jeannine
Summary: A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ATKWood, Tracey Enerson
Summary: "Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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Summary: Bringing to life the violence, action and heroism of the battlefield, this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 follows a severely outnumbered English army as they, through the ingenious planning of Edward the Black Prince, defeated the French and captured the Poiters and French King John II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cornwell 2013Clinch, Jon
Summary: Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEGodwin, Parke.
Summary: The story of King Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon ruler of the English and his 20-year romance with Edith, his common-law wife. On being crowned he is forced to marry another, but it is Edith who is by his side when he goes to his death, fighting the Normans at the Battle of Hastings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODReasoner, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REAShaara, Jeff
Summary: The last year of the Civil War as seen by the two commanding generals, Grant and Lee. The novel is the final volume in a trilogy, begun by the author's father with The Killer Angels. In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. In the bestselling Gods and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAO'Brien, Anne
Summary: Orphaned at a young age, Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, seeks a strong husband to keep her hold on the vast lands that have made her the most powerful heiress in Europe. But her arranged marriage to Louis VII, King of France, is made disastrous by Louis's weakness of will and fanatical devotion to the Church. Eleanor defies her husband by risking her life on an adventurous Crusade, and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRGingrich, Newt.
Summary: Traces the events surrounding the pivotal battle of August 1863, during which Lee and Grant both cross the Susquehanna and make decisions that culminate in the war's outcome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dune Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GINWeir, Alison.
Summary: The author harks back to the twelfth century with a sensuous and tempestuous tale that brings vividly to life England's most passionate and destructive royal couple: Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II. Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor has spent the past dozen frustrating years as consort to the pious King Louis VII of France. For all its political advantages, the marriage has brought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEISummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLAWood, Tracey Enerson
Summary: Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President Woodrow Wilson wins Edith over and she becomes the First Lady of the United States. The position is uncomfortable for the fiercely independent Edith, but she's determined to rise to the challenges of her new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. After the presidential party has gone, Daniel discovers that Mitterrand's black felt hat has been left behind. Daniel decides to keep the hat as a souvenir, and as he leaves the restaurant, he begins to feel somehow...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Laurain 2013Molnár, Márta
Summary: "When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law. Johanna inherited Vincent van Gogh's paintings. They were all she had, and they weren't worth anything. She was a 28...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marta Molnar 2022
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Summary: Abby, her two friends Robin and Frankie, and the annoying Penny, are in their treehouse arguing about what to do for their special school project when a tornado appears out of nowhere, scoops up the treehouse, and transports them all to the land of Oz, where they are soon confronted by Wicked Witch of the East (who is very much alive, and rather angry), and must save a story that is going...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MLYFolman, Ari
Summary: "In Amsterdam, a year from today, a terrible thunderstorm rages over the city. It is the middle of the night at the Anne Frank House, a magnificent thunderbolt hits the house and shatters the protective glass in which the most famous diary in human history is displayed. Magically, Kitty, Anne's imaginary friend, comes to life. At first, Kitty does not know that 75 years have passed--after all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FOLLetts, Elizabeth
Summary: "This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Letts 2019Letts, Elizabeth
Summary: "This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019