Benjamin, Melanie
Summary: "The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota Territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats-- leaving them unprepared when disaster struck. At the hour when most prairie schools were letting out for the day, a terrifying, fast-moving blizzard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Benjamin 2021Byler, Linda
Summary: "Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. As the local Amish community begins to thrive, a terrible drought and a windmill fire devastate their business and the community. Hannah must choose whether to stay in North Dakota or move back to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with the other Amish families that are leaving"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BYLSteel, Danielle.
Summary: This centuries-spanning novel interweaves the lives of two women: a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is a story of courage in the face of the unknown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STECollins, Olive
Summary: "In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2020
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Summary: In 1667, an invisible wall separates settlers in New France from their Huron neighbors. Yet whether in the fledgling city of Quebec or within one of the native tribes, every woman’s fate depends on the man she chooses—or is obligated—to marry. Although Claudine Deschamps and Gabrielle Giroux both live within the settlement, their prospects are very different. French-born Claudine has followed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RUNMcPherson, Catriona
Summary: "It's the breezy Scottish summer of 1936 and aristocratic sleuth Dandy Gilver, along with trusted colleague Alec Osborne, has been called to solve the strange case of the Cramond Ferrywoman, on the Firth of Forth. From their cheerless digs in a local stately home, Dandy and Alec track Vesper Kemp, the ferrywoman, to a tiny tidal island. She seems to have lost her mind, roaming the beaches in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCPTarshis, Lauren
Summary: When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Tarshis 2018Gilbert, Julie
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Maddy Rollag struggles with prairie life on her aunt and uncle's farm in Dakota Territory, but on January 12, 1888, when a blizzard threatens to trap Maddy and her classmates inside their damaged schoolhouse, she finds the courage and strength to lead them to safety. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILBarry, Sebastian
Summary: When Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, is violently attacked, she takes matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice that will uncover the dark secrets of her past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BARSmith, 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 SMIMangel, 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 2019Slimani, Leïla
Summary: Morocco, 1968: Two siblings, unusual for their biracial parentage--their father is Moroccan, their mother French--search for their place in a world not made to fit them. Aicha, strong-willed and studious, dreams of leaving Morocco to study medicine in her mother's homeland. Her younger brother, Selim, the family's errant misfit, will forge a path of rebellion among the European hippies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLIMasih, Tara Lynn
Summary: "A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MASHolm, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLGilbert, Julie
Summary: It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: Boston 1642: Imprisoned for the crime of adultery, young wife Hester Prynne is condemned on her release to bear a public display of her shame - a scarlet letter 'A' stitched upon her dress. For the sake of her baby daughter Pearl, the product of her illicit liaison, she determines to weather the scorn of her Puritan community with defiance and dignity. Meanwhile, her husband is resolved to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hawthorne 2015Gamble, Terry
Summary: The Givens family arrives in America in 1819. As the years pass, this family, initially indifferent to slavery, will actively work for its end-performing courageous, often dangerous, occasionally foolhardy acts of moral rectitude that will reverberate through their lives for generations to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GAMLico Albanese, Laurie
Summary: "A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AlbaneseLico Albanese, Laurie
Summary: "A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC LICKeneally, Thomas
Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENTran, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)
Summary: "In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi, and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman of color on a Bachelor-esque...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: "On a hot day in 1737 in Rotterdam, Anna Konig reluctantly sets foot on a merchant ship that will carry her and her fellow Amish believers across the Atlantic to start a new life. As the only one in her community who can speak English, she feels compelled to go. But Anna is determined to complete this journey and return home. Ship's carpenter Bairn resents the somber people who fill the lower...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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Summary: Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation. Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: Should they board a container ship bound for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018