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Indians of North America Indians of North America Fiction Lakota Indians Leelanau County (Mich.) Fiction Michigan Leelanau County Nineteen sixties Fiction Nineteen sixties Juvenile fiction Shamans United States History 1961-1969 Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Western FrontAtkinson, Rick
Summary: "Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ATKWiles, Deborah.
Summary: Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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Summary: A former mafia associate and heist expert who spent eight years in prison for not incriminating his fellow Gambino family members presents the history of the mafia's first 100 years, from Sicily in the 1860s to America in the 1960s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Summary: Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CARCogan, Priscilla
Summary: When an old Indian medicine woman announces she intends to die, her daughter takes her to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist, a white woman, finds she is getting nowhere and slowly the tables are turned, the Indian medicine woman successfully treating the problems of the lonely and divorced white doctor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2010
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Scott, Manda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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Summary: It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILWiles, Deborah
Summary: Molly and her cousin drive cross-country in an old bus, navigating protests, parades, and concerts to notify her conscientious objector brother that he has been drafted into the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2002
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Summary: A cross-cultural romance between an American Indian and a white woman. The heroine is Dr. Meggie O'Connor, a psychologist who studied under an Indian medicine woman who brought them together, even though the Indian is married. By the author of Winona's Web.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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Cogan, Priscilla
Summary: Crack at Dusk: Crook of Dawn, the third novel in The Winona Trilogy, continues to explore the deep divide between the modern psychological view of life and the traditional Lakota (Sioux) spiritual perspective, following the same characters: Dr. Meggie O'Connor, the psychologist and Hawk, the Lakota medicine teacher. In Crack at Dusk: Crook of Dawn, the two lovers marry but soon find their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2000
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Atkinson, Rick.
Summary: The second volume in a trilogy chronicling the liberation of Europe during World War II focuses on the Allied campaigns in Sicily and Italy, detailing the bloody battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Monte Cassino, as well as the June 1944 liberation of Rome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2007
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Summary: Tells the dramatic story of the titanic battle for Western Europe from D-Day to the thrust to the heart of the Third Reich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2013