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Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she is more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Erdrich, Louise.

Summary: Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Jiles, Paulette

Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016

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

Smith, Wilbur A.

Summary: "Inseparable since birth and growing up in India, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents. Theo, wracked with guilt, strikes a solitary path through life. Haunted by the spirits of lovers and family members, he is determined to atone for his mistakes. He seeks salvation in combat and conflict, joining the British in the war against the French and Indian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zaffre 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2019

Holm, Jennifer L.

Summary: The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Russell, Sheldon

Summary: "In the American West, as the nation heals from the Civil War that nearly destroyed it, new battle lines are being drawn. Caleb Justin, orphaned and grieving, and his comrade Joshua Hart, a tough, worldly runaway, leave their home along the Ohio River bound for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, intent to join Sheridan's troops in their pursuit of Indian lands. But a badly healed foot injury ends...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cennan Books, an imprint of Cynren Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

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