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African American families Pennsylvania Philadelphia Fiction African American women Fiction African Americans Migrations History 20th century Fiction Dam failures Fiction Disasters Fiction Floods Fiction Shipyards New York Fiction Shipyards New York Juvenile fiction United States History War of 1812 Fiction United States History War of 1812 Juvenile fictionKoen, Karleen.
Summary: An ambitious young woman, Alice Verney risks everything for pride and status as she deals with the political intrigues, private passions, shifting alliances, and social machinations of the Restoration court of King Charles II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOESchine, Cathleen
Summary: Julian Künstler comes from New York City to L.A. like many a lost twenty-something: to find a job writing in the entertainment industry. But this is 2020 and his temporary visit turns into an extended stay, trapped by the lockdown in a little house in Venice with his glamorous, eccentric, and ancient grandmother. Ninety-three-years old, Mamie came to Los Angeles from Vienna at eleven with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHKoen, Karleen.
Summary: Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man -- the man before Versailles? After the death of his prime minister, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps in to govern France. He's still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes all he can get -- including his brother's wife. As the love affair between Louis and Princess...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: Assuming the responsibilities of governing France after the death of his prime minister, Louis XIV embarks on a love affair with his sister-in-law, Henriette, triggering a scandal that is complicated by a finance minister's growing power and a mysterious boy with an iron mask.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEMathis, Ayana.
Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMengiste, Maaza
Summary: "A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." -- Salman Rushdie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENScott, Anika
Summary: "For readers of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris, an immersive, heart-pounding debut about a German heiress on the run from British authorities, who discovers dark secrets about her family's past in post-World War II Germany"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "A family fractures along the political fault lines of the 1960s, setting off a sequence of events ricocheting from anti-Vietnam activism to the Apollo program, in this sprawling multigenerational novel"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCCambor, Kathleen.
Summary: The lives of the people of Johnstown, Pennsylvania are irreparably changed when the South Fork dam, which separates the wealthy from the lower class part of town, bursts on Memorial Day weekend 1889.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMErnst, Kathleen
Summary: When her father is taken prisoner by the British, Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812, tries to help her family run their shipyard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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Summary: From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MATMathis, Ayana.
Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mathis 2012Mathis, Ayana.
Summary: In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MATGrissom, Kathleen
Summary: "The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad. Published in 2010, The Kitchen House became a grassroots bestseller. Fans connected so deeply to the book's characters that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRIKent, Kathleen
Summary: "It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission with the CIA, alongside three fellow agents--none of whom know she is playing two roles. To the prying eyes of the KGB, she is merely a secretary; to her CIA minders, she is the only one who can stop the flow of nuclear weapons from the crumbling Soviet Union into the Middle East. For Mel has a secret;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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Summary: As she plans a party for her son and daughter, Rehana Haque's life will be transformed in a story of one family caught in the middle of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, as they face changes and decisions that will have a profound impact on their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANADonohoe, Kathleen
Summary: A debut novel about the passionate loves and tragic losses of six generations of women in a family of firefighters, spanning from famine-era Ireland to Brooklyn a decade after 9/11. "There isn't anything in the world that hurts like a burn." No one knows the pain of a fire more than the women of the Keegan/O'Reilly clan. Kathleen Donohoe's stunning debut novel brings to life seven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DONErnst, Kathleen
Summary: When her father is taken prisoner by the British, Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812, tries to help her family run their shipyard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNRooney, Kathleen
Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROOSpivack, Kathleen
Summary: "A strange, haunting, exhilarating debut novel about survival and love in all its forms: about sexual awakenings and dark secrets, about European refugee intellectuals who've fled Hitler's armies with dreams intact and who have come to an elusive new (American) "can-do, will-do" world they cannot seem to find. A novel steeped in surreal storytelling and beautiful music that transports its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPICambor, Kathleen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2001
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Summary: Continues the story of Caroline Abbott, a young girl living during the War of 1812.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2012
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNErnst, Kathleen
Summary: Caroline's father has just returned when they receive frightening news--British warships are sailing to attack Sackets Harbor. Every grown man, including Papa, has been called to defend the village. Mama and Caroline are left alone to guard Abbott's Shipyard as the battlefront draws ever closer. Caroline knows she must be brave to keep Papa's shipyard safe. But when the battle seems lost, Mama...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2012