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Hannah, Kristin

18 holds on 2 copies

Summary: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Holm, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Harris, Nathan

Summary: "In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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Inouye Huey, Emily

Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Elliott, Laura

Summary: In 1941, after Hitler declares war on the United States, unleashing U-boat submarines to attack American ships, Louisa June, with the waves outside her house carrying dangerous enemies, must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Hannah, Kristin

10 holds on 3 copies

Summary: "Women can be heroes, too." When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAN

Orange, Tommy

7 holds on 12 copies

Summary: "Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024

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Orange, Tommy

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ORA

Orange, Tommy

Summary: "Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 0000

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT ORA

Oliveira, Robin

Summary: "Hailey MacIntyre seems conjured from the depths of Samuel Fiddes's loneliness. Caring for his young sister in the tenements of Glasgow, Scotland, Samuel has known only hunger, while Hailey has never known want. When Samuel saves Hailey's brother from a runaway carriage, a friendship begins. Through secret meetings and stolen moments, they learn the topography of one another's innermost...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Rundell, B. N.

Summary: "Osage, Kansa, Otoe, were all tribes west of the Mississippi and dwelt directly in the path of the two friends determined to escape the bounty hunters from Philadelphia and to explore the uncharted wilderness of the west. But when they encounter former French Voyageurs turned slave traders that take Pawnee women captive, their purposes take a turn. But slave-traders are nothing compared to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

Kyles, Cedric

Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CED

Cameron, Sharon

Summary: "In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must shine a light on the truth and catch the fiend who killed a young reporter in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. Louisa Rodgers is working as a magazine reporter and is hoping midwife Sarah Malloy can help her. New Century Magazine, like Colliers and McClure's, is branching out into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Patterson, James

Summary: My name is Hannah Dory and I need you to believe me NOW: Hannah is brought to Belman Psych, told she is suffering from hallucinations and delusions. Hannah knows the truth: she must return to the past and save her sister. Could Jordan, the abnormal psych student who seems to truly care, be the answer she's looking for? 1347: Hannah and her village are starving to death in a brutal winter....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

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