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Connecticut History 17th century Fiction Massachusetts History New Plymouth, 1620-1691 Fiction New England Social life and customs Juvenile fiction Occult fiction Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Fiction Prejudices Fiction Prejudices Juvenile fiction Puritans Fiction Religious tolerance Fiction Witchcraft FictionNesbit, TaraShea
Summary: "Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESMitchell, Siri L.
Summary: In Stoneybrooke, Massachusetts, Susannah Phillips obeys the rules. Dress the right way. Believe the right things. Live the right life. But when love interferes, she faces a choice: follow the rules or follow her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MITLewis, Stephen
Summary: Told in the compelling voice of Rachel Moore, a housemaid in 17th century Puritan Boston and featuring that colony's two most powerful figures in Governor John Winthrop and his courageous opponent Anne Hutchinson, From Infamy to Hope is the story of the religious persecution of a servant girl made pregnant by rape. Convicted of fornication, she is sentenced to wear a black W for "whore" on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Austin Macauley Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEWMason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe)
Summary: "When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 17th century Britain was a hotbed of revolution, treachery and court intrigue. Oliver Cromwell, the fiery ambitious commoner took on the monarchy and changed the course of Western civilization. He and King Charles I fought for absolute rule.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROSpeare, Elizabeth George.
Summary: In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sandpiper 2011