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Discoveries in geography Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life Fiction North Carolina History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction Scottish Americans Fiction Time travel Fiction United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration Fiction West (U.S.) Fiction West United StatesCrandall, Susan
Summary: "From the bestselling and award-winning author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes an adventure tale about two daredevils and a farm boy who embark on the journey of a lifetime across America's heartland in the Roaring Twenties. Set in the rapidly changing world of 1920s America, this is a story of three people from very different backgrounds: Henry "Schuler" Jefferson, son of German...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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Summary: In the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson reflects on his life. From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Ziggy had been the pulse of Detroit's famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city's African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he was also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he rubbed elbows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RANRindell, Suzanne.
Summary: Working as a typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, Rose Baker documents confessions of harrowing crimes and struggles with changing gender roles while clinging to her Victorian ideals and searching for nurturing companionship before becoming obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking and speakeasies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINRandall, Alice.
Summary: " ... story of a strong, resourceful black woman breaking away from the damaging world of the Old South to emerge into her own, a person capable of not only receiving but giving love, as daughter, lover, and mother"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RANRindell, Suzanne
Summary: "Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada--Eagle and Crane--are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas--Japanese immigrants--stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family. When Louis and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018
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Summary: In 1930s Hollywood, eighteen-year-old budding starlet Henrietta and her handsome-but-moody co-star Declan go from bitter enemies to reluctant partners when they become entangled in the disappearance of a beautiful young actress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KULTyndall, M. L.
Summary: "When British soldiers invade Baltimore amid the War of 1812, Rose McGuire, alone on her family farm, is easy prey for a brutal lieutenant. In the midst of the attack, she's saved by British 2nd Lieutenant Alexander Reed. Will she now have to heal, as well as hide, this wounded enemy soldier..."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYNRundell, B. N.
Summary: "It started as a brother defending the honor of his only sister, but it led to a bloody duel and a young man of a prominent family lying dead in the dirt. Gabriel Stonecroft along with his life-long friend, Ezra, the son of the pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal church, at his side, the journey to the far wilderness of the west would begin. One man from prominent social standing, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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Summary: "With the Civil War raging across the land, Reuben thought Colorado Territory was far enough away from the fighting. His time of peace would be short-lived as he was called to South Park to quell southern sympathisers' recruiting efforts. After leaving their peaceful cabin in the mountains, and being confronted by a suspicious band of partisans, he was forced to do what he could to deal a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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Summary: "The gold rush of 1859 in the Colorado Rockies brought more than just gold seekers. Outlaws, conmen, crooks, and thieves quickly populated the central Rockies, and it was from that element that Reuben and Elly Mae Grundy fled. They had done their part, serving as deputy marshals, but now they wanted time alone and together. Choosing a site far south and away from the gold rush, they built a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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Summary: "When the Salish War Leader, Spotted Eagle appeared in the clearing before their cabin, life-long friends Gabe and Ezra weren't sure what to think. This man had shown himself to be their friend, and now he invited them to join him and the village on a buffalo hunt. With winter just around the corner, it seemed the likely thing to do, but had they known what the journey would bring, they might...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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Summary: "It was new country, beautiful and wild and full of challenges. When Reuben chose to start the new chapter of his life with a partner, he had no inclination as to the trials that would come. The sight of a war party of Cheyenne Dog soldiers caught their attention when they saw two captive white women, and Elly's insistence that they free them was the beginning of those challenges. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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Summary: "They had flirted with the distant snowcapped mountains before but never had the opportunity to walk among them. Now with renewed determination, Reuben and his new bride, Elly, set out for those mountains. But the trail they traveled took them through the goldfields of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush of South Park, Colorado Territory. Evil was running rampant in the outlying areas of the mountain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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Summary: "Kaniache, war chief and leader of the Mouache Ute tribe, stood at odds with Ouray, chief of the Tabeguache Ute, who was willing to do whatever white men asked, even giving up much of their native homeland. All that Ouray would surrender in a bid for peace, Kaniache was determined to reclaim. With the aftermath of the Sand Creek massacre still on the minds of the native peoples, few were keen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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Summary: "It was to be no more than a wagon train going west, but when Reuben uncovers a plot to provide a shipment of Beecher's Bibles to the restive Oglala Sioux, he was forced to intervene. He knew the destruction that would come at the hands of renegade natives armed with Springfield Rifles and in good conscience, he forced himself to try to do whatever was necessary to prevent that from happening....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2021
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Summary: At the moment of the Emperor's death, everything changes in the palace. Mei, his former concubine, is free, and Pheasant, the heir and Mei's lover, is proclaimed as the new Emperor, heralding a new era in China. But just when Mei believes she's closer to her dream, Pheasant's chief wife, Lady Wang, powerful and unpredictable, turns against Mei and takes unthinkable measures to stop her. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2016
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Summary: 1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021
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Summary: A concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the Emperor's attention. Many paint their faces white and style their hair attractively, hoping to lure in the One Above All with their beauty. Some present him with fantastic gifts, such as jade pendants and scrolls of calligraphy, while others rely on their knowledge of seduction to draw his interest. But young Mei...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2016
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Summary: "Two friends committed to one another and their destiny of exploring the wilderness known as French Louisiana. A land that would soon become the Louisiana Purchase and a part of the growing nation of the United Colonies. But another man, wealthy, influential and vindictive is determined to see Gabriel Stonecroft pay the ultimate price for the death of his son, a ne'er do well troublemaker who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2020
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Summary: "Every time he squeezed the trigger, somebody died. He thought it was just the way of the war, but after taking a couple bullets and being mustered out, it continued. When he stood over the ashes of his family's farm and stared at their graves, the same bile rose in his throat, and he knew somebody was going to have to pay ... and pay with their blood. This was to be the beginning of a blood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2021
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Summary: "Late summer, 1864. America's bloodiest war was coming to an end and many displaced families from every corner of the land in search of new homes, land, and even gold were heading west., unaware of the dangers that awaited. With the natives continually striving to make peace, and politicians and soldiers repeatedly breaking treaties and forcing tribes onto smaller and smaller reservations, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wolfpack Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNGabaldon, Diana
Summary: "It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell's teakettle. Jamie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2017