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Ganeshram, Ramin

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Philadelphia 1793. Hercules, President George Washington's chef, is a fixture on the Philadelphia scene. He is famous for both his culinary prowess and for ruling his kitchen like a commanding general. He has his run of the city and earns twice the salary of an average American workingman. He wears beautiful clothes and attends the theater. But while valued by the Washingtons for his prowess in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ganeshram 2018

Riley, Vanessa

Summary: "Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIL

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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

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