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Conrad, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Caroline House 1991

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

Wright, 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....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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

Llywelyn, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLY

Lalami, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAL

Jones, 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,...

Format: text

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 EAR

Baxter, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAX

Luby, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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Buechner, Frederick

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1987

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUE

Dorris, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1992

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

Holland, Cecelia

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOL

Doyle, 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 DOY

Duble, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2008

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

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