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America Discovery and exploration Spanish Fiction Arctic regions Discovery and exploration Fiction Explorers Fiction Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) History 19th century Fiction Greenland Discovery and exploration Fiction Indians of North America Fiction Large type books Siblings Fiction Southern States Discovery and exploration Spanish Fiction Women explorers FictionWright, Ronald
Summary: Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish explorers, including Francisco Pizarro, and in the culture clash and violent overthrow of the Incan leaders....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WRIConrad, Pam.
Summary: Written as a diary by the ship's boy, this story presents a personal view of Columbus's first trip across the Atlantic and of his discovery of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caroline House 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CONLai, Yi Shun
Summary: In 1914 England, eighteen-year-old American Clara lies about her age and citizenship to land a coveted spot on an Antarctic expedition, but when the crew is marooned on an ice floe, Clara's mission to advance the women's suffrage movement takes a back seat to survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAIJones, Stephen Graham
Summary: "The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Humanity has given up hope, except for a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert and figured out where everything took a turn for the worst: America. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 EARLalami, Laila
Summary: In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America-a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LALBaxter, Stephen.
Summary: A mysterious prophecy continues to transform the face of Europe as Christianity and Islam battle for supremacy across Spain, agents from the future use horrific weapons of destruction to change history, and in 1492, a bold explorer seeks funding for his western expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXLuby, Brittany
Summary: Awakened gently by Sun, Sailor sets off to explore new lands where he meets Fisher, and although they speak and dress differently, they find they have much in common. Includes author's note about the first encounter between a European explorer and a Native North American.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LUBDoyle, Arthur Conan
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 1997
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF DOYMessner, Kate
Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESEarling, Debra Magpie
Summary: Raised among the Lemhi Shoshone, Sacajewea [sic] learns all the ways to survive. When her village is raided, she is kidnapped and then gambled away to Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper. Now she must learn to survive in a new world teeming with fur trappers and traders. When Lewis and Clark's expedition arrives, Sacajewea must cross a vast and brutal terrain with her newborn son, the white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EARDorris, Michael.
Summary: Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DORLlywelyn, Morgan.
Summary: This is the story of Saint Brendan the Navigator, whose legendary quest to find the Isle of the Blessed is one of the most remarkable and enduring of early Christian tales. Among Irish saints, Brendan the Navigator is second only to Patrick. Founder of several Christian monasteries, he most famously guided a group of monks on a dangerous journey into the unknown vastness of the ocean on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLYGear, W. Michael.
Summary: "Black Shell, an exiled Chickasaw trader, is fascinated by the pale, bearded newcomers who call themselves "Kristianos," and not even the wise counsel of Pearl Hand, the extraordinary and beautiful woman who has consented to be his mate, can dissuade him. It will unfortunately take a first-hand lesson in the Kristianos' unfathomable brutality for Black Shell to fully comprehend the dangers that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAGear, W. Michael.
Summary: After being fought to a standstill by the courageous Apalachee Nation, Spanish invader Hernando de Soto has changed his tactics. He will employ promises of peace to accomplish what cannot be achieved by violence alone. Lured by a young man's tale of gold and aided by an arrogant princess's treachery, he makes his way through the beautiful southeastern landscape. One by one, the ancient Nations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEABuechner, Frederick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUEHolland, Cecelia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLDuble, Kathleen Benner.
Summary: Relates events of explorer Henry Hudson's final voyage in 1602 from four points of view, those of his seventeen-year-old son aboard ship, a younger son left in London, a crewmember, and a young English woman acting as a spy in Holland in hopes of restoring honor to her family's name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DUBOrange, Tommy
Summary: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity. Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. Now adrift, Opal searches for a way to heal her wounded family.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ORAGear, W. Michael.
Summary: Black Shell, an exile banished by his people for cowardice, prepares to lead a small band of warriors to kill the Kristianos, while explorer Hernando de Soto tricks the ancient Nations into slavery through his lies and ambition for gold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAMacallister, Greer
Summary: "1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACPenney, Stef
Summary: A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve and fell in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain. In 1889, she sets out to become a scientist and explorer. Despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men, her determination leads her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition. Yearning for wider...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENRöehrig, Tilman
Summary: Exiled from his homeland of Norway as a boy, Erik Thorvladsson wants nothing more than to honor his father's legacy and to figure out where he belongs in the world. Navigating natural disasters, violent clashes, and banishment, he seeks his fortunes in an Iceland on the brink of change. When a conflict over property erupts into violence, Erik is outlawed from the country for three years and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis, W1-Media, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROEWilkes, Ally
Summary: "In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James "Australis" Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self--and true gender--and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC WILWilkes, Ally
Summary: Victorian explorer William Day, 13 years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal and cannibalism, embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command during which he must face up to the things he's done as the restless dead follow closely behind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2023