Morris, Heather
Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2020
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Summary: In New Orleans after the Civil War, John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures--struggles with his inability to admit his failures until those who taught him to love, and to be loved, transformed him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1994
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Summary: Set during the chaotic years of World War II, tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, his Irish driver/aide, and the impact of that relationship on Mamie Eisenhower and her life in Washington during the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Examines the life, work, and friendship of Peter Artedi and Carl Linneaus and theorizes about the suspicious death of Artedi and what role, if any, his friend may have played.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scott & Nix 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIEHuahn, Traci
Summary: Based on the life of Chinese American student Mamie Tape and her fight to attend the all-white Spring Valley Primary School in her San Francisco neighborhood including her family's successful 1885 lawsuit before the California Supreme Court, one step in the long journey towards equality in education. Includes author's note with biographical and historical information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: "In imperial Vienna, where the court halls buzzed with waltzes and champagne, as well as temptation, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue, the intensely personal tale of Empress Sisi unraveled. Infamously beautiful, a mother of four, and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph - whom she unintentionally stole away from her sister - Sisi's reign was anything but simple. Against the backdrop of a rich, romantic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2016
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Summary: A biographical novel tells the story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: "In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA Academic 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.082 TRUHenry, Marguerite
Summary: An unusual work horse raised in Vermont and known originally as "Little Bub" becomes the sire of a famous American breed and takes the name of his owner, Justin Morgan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015
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Summary: "In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "A delightful romp through the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him became an act of blasphemy... and who the Bard might really be"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 WINMinert, Roger P. (Roger Phillip)
Contents: Reverse alphabetical index -- Alphabetical index -- Reverse alphabetical index -- Alphabetical index
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Publisher / Publication Date: GRT Publications 2005
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