Summary: Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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Summary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2000

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Phelan, Matt.

Summary: Challenged with circling the world at the end of the nineteenth century, three very different adventurers--avid bicyclist Thomas Stevens, fearless reporter Nellie Bly, and retired sea captain Joshua Slocum--embark on epic journeys.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PHE

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLA

Hooper, Elise

Summary: A tale inspired by the life of Louisa May Alcott's youngest sister finds young May longing to study art outside of the confines of her Concord home before turning down a marriage proposal and pursuing an identity in contrast to the spoiled and worldly character of Amy in her sister's famed novel.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

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De Angeli, Marguerite

Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Laurel-Leaf Books 1998

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION DE A

De Angeli, Marguerite

Summary: A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989

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Shaara, Jeff

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Summary: Aliens are everywhere, attacking Planet Earth! Rockets sent into space to probe for future space flights, but the rockets keep disappearing. They are being intercepted by an army of space aliens, who must be stopped.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI EAR

Shaara, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Atkins, Jeannine

Summary: May Alcott spends her days sewing blue shirts for Union soldiers, but she dreams of painting a masterpiece -- which many say is impossible for a woman -- and of finding love, too. When she reads her sister's wildly popular novel, Little Women, she is stung by Louisa's portrayal of her as "Amy," the youngest of four sisters who trades her desire to succeed as an artist for the joys of hearth and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATK

Summary: John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, is back, and his latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack, who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger World War III.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GOO

Austin, Finola

Summary: "Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson - mistress of Thorp Green Hall - has lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more. All of that changes with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020

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Gingrich, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004

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

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

Wu Ming.

Summary: In Hollywood, Cary Grant has grown weary of cinema's glamour, but Her Majesty's Secret Service will break his malaise with a bizarre diplomatic mission. In Naples, Lucky Luciano fixes horse races and begins to lay the foundation for the global heroin trade. And in Bologna, a bartender searches for true love and his missing communist father. It is 1954--the height of the Cold War--and these...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006

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Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUS

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Peace Conference convenes, there historic luminaries invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2008

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

Adams, Richard

Summary: Examines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee's closest companion and devoted horse, Traveller.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADA

Crichton, Michael

Summary: The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2017

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Crichton, Michael

Summary: The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRI

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Crichton, Michael

Summary: A tale set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017

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Lovesey, Peter.

Summary: In this whodunit, set at the turn of the century in Paris, the sleuth is the Prince of Wales. Bertie, as he is affectionately known, probes the death of a high-society man shot during a floor show at the Moulin Rouge. Also appearing are the actress, Sarah Bernhardt, and the painter, Toulouse-Lautrec. By the author of Bertie and the Seven Bodies.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1995

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOV