Wingate, Lisa
Summary: "Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Summary: Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: A dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual 'Lost Friends' advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINRivera, Adriana Erin
Summary: Told through diary entries, twelve-year-old Paloma and her family must navigate changes they cannot control and hope for a better future when United States soldiers invade Spanish controlled Puerto Rico in 1898.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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Summary: Southern Appalachia. He was born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Damon braves the perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Santiago, Esmeralda.
Summary: "Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in twin brothers Ramon and Inocente, both in love with Ana, she finds a way to get there: she marries Ramon and convinces the brothers that their destiny is in the remote sugar plantation they have inherited on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANGwyn, Aaron
Summary: "1827. Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live and love as he pleases. That same year, Cecelia, a young slave in Virginia, runs away for the first time. Soon infamous for her escape attempts, Cecelia drifts through the reality of slavery until she encounters frontiersman Sam Fisk, who rescues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWYLlanos-Figueroa, Dahlma
Summary: "A groundbreaking historical novel from a heralded author that explores the seldom discussed Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade. At a time when importing humans from Africa had been prohibited by the Spanish Crown, Pola and other slave women provide their master with babies who are immediately taken away and sold on the auction block. Her serial rapes by a number of men are routine and often...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2022
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Summary: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they elope to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfil all her dreams. To her horror, she discovers that they can only afford to live in the notorious poverty-stricken tenements. Seamus becomes obsessed with republican politics, neglecting his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLWingate, Lisa
Summary: A dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual 'Lost Friends' advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WINPatchett, Ann
Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2019
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Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATGear, Kathleen O'Neal.
Summary: Recounts the story of the trading empire of Poverty Port, Louisiana, of 3500 years ago, during which warrior and shaman Salamander experiences a vision that shapes the destiny of his people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAPatchett, Ann
Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 0000
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2 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC PATPeacock, Caro
Summary: A series of anonymous letters leads to a case of cold-blooded murder for 19th-century private investigator Liberty Lane. September, 1841. A new arrival has taken London society by storm. Lord Byron's handsome illegitimate son, George, recently arrived from the exotic island of Cephalonia in the company of his guardian, the mysterious Mr Vickery, has been setting female hearts aflutter. But not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creme De La Crime 2011
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Summary: A famous riverboat singer poses as a slave owner in order to lead runaway slaves to freedom and save her own life in this powerful novel from the bestselling author of The Librarian of Boone's Hollow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWWingate, Lisa
Summary: "Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wingate 2020Santiago, Esmeralda
Summary: "A powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and The Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC SANKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: An Appalachian boy braves the modern perils of life in a beautiful, poverty-ridden place he can't imagine leaving. Steered by a teacher and a best friend, he comes to learn how to cope with outside forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINPatchett, Ann
Summary: At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: A Royal Navy warship is dispatched to the Pacific to help Chile fight for its independence from Spain. Twentieth volume in a series featuring Captain Jack Aubery and ship's doctor Stephen Maturin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007
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Summary: "The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMonroe, Mary
Summary: "With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins' steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden cost to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel--or stop the growing distrust between them ..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina 2023