O'Connor, Stephen
Summary: A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of terms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCOO'Connor, Stephen.
Summary: "A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a gap in the American narrative. This book tells of a little-known but enormously influential child welfare effort: the orphan trains, which between 1854 and 1929 spirited away some 250,000 abandoned children to the homes of families in the Midwest and West. Combining the accounts of orphans - including those of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.73 OCOSummary: Dorothy Gale, a.k.a. DG, is all grown up and bored. She mopes around working as a waitress and goes to school part time. Before she knows it, she's back in OZ and on the run from the evil sorceress Azkadellia, her storm troopers and clumsy bats. Along the way she falls in with some strange characters including the brainless Glitches; Raw, a cowardly and psychic lion-man hybrid; and, Wyatt Cain,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008