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Thomas, Kai

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Lilac, Jamie

Summary: Beau Bellegarde, a second-born son, makes a deal: if he can turn Evie Clément, the unapproachable baker's daughter, into the winner of the Court Ball, making her the most desired bachelorette in Paris, he inherits the family fortune, but his target has plans of her own.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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

Headen, Sandra W.

Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

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

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEA

Shaara, Jeff

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHA

Dray, Stephanie

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dray 2021

Dray, Stephanie

Summary: "An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women... A reluctant resistor... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC DRA (BOOK CLUB KIT-8 paperbacks)

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

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

James, Tania

3 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Pink, Randi

Summary: Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street." "Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021

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

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

Bennett, Brit

Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEN

Chiaverini, Jennifer

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory"--

Format: text

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

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Lee, Harper

Summary: Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--returns home to Maycomb to visit her father. She struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEE

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Lee 2015

Phelan, Matt

Summary: In 1783 France, ten-year-old Emile works as Benjamin Franklin's caretaker, but after he finds himself in the middle of a sinister plot, he helps France's undercover guardians, a sheep, a rooster and a duck save the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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

Perkins-Valdez, Dolen

4 holds on 6 copies

Summary: "Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PER

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Perkins-Valdez

Perkins-Valdez, Dolen

Summary: "Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 0000

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

Janson, Julie

Summary: A young Darug girl is sent to the Parramatta Native School after white settlers begin to arrive and claim the continent for the British Empire and flees, searching for a safe place in an increasingly unfamiliar world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAN

Follett, Ken

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOL

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory. In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Pulishers 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHI

Lester, Natasha

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: "Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills-persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure-catch the attention of the U.S. government and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LES

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LES

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lester

Springer, Nancy

Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Allen, Autumn

Summary: Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023

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

Ibañez, Isabel

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Set in 1884, nineteen-year-old Inez travels to Egypt after the sudden death of her parents to uncover the truth about their deaths, and as she attempts to unravel the mysteries her parents sought, she becomes a pawn in a larger game that threatens to kill her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC IBA

Asim, Jabari

Summary: They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASI

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