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Troupe, Thomas Kingsley.

Summary: Describes what it was like to live as a settler in Colonial America.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.2 TRO

Summary: An irresistible force draws the TARDIS to the barren surface of Frontios, where in the far future the last surviving humans cower amongst the ruins of their wrecked spacecraft. Under constant threat from lethal meteorite bombardments, few of the doomed colony members realize that the ground of Frontios itself opens up and devours the unwary. Not permitted to assist, the Doctor attempts to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOC

Summary: "The Doctor arrives on the paradise planet of Deva Loka to find a colonial mission on the verge of collapse. Several of its members have vanished into the jungle without a trace, leaving the survivors suspicious and paranoid. The mystery deepens as it becomes clear that the planet's native inhabitants, the Kinda, possess hitherto unsuspected powers that challenge human understanding. Meanwhile,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOC

Summary: 1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JAM

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ja 3

Faris, David.

Summary: This book is intended to provide summary information about the legitimate descent from an Angevin (i.e., Plantagenet) King of England of about one hundred individuals who emigrated from England and Wales to the North American colonies by the end of the seventeenth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.342 Faris

Summary: The mighty Mads Mikkelsen unleashes a maelstrom of bloodshed in the Wild West in this white-knuckle tale of revenge. When he lays waste to the scoundrels who killed his wife and son, a Danish ex-soldier incurs the wrath of a sadistic gang leader hell-bent on hunting him down. Exploding with eye-popping action, dazzlingly dramatic frontier landscapes, and a smoldering performance by Eva Green,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SAL

Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis

Summary: Transcriptions of more than four hundred Native American land conveyances from Plymouth Colony court records are now accessible to researchers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 Bangs

Summary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR
3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 2
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3

Jasanoff, Maya

Summary: At the end of the American Revolution, 60,000 Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 JAS

Charry, Brinda

Summary: "Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company's outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants--boys like himself, men from...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Marcovitz, Hal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2002

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB SMITH MAR

Savage, James

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Company 1986

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.374 SA

Jasanoff, Maya

Summary: At the end of the American Revolution, 60,000 Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 JAS

Grace, Catherine O'Neill

Summary: A recreation of the first Thanksgiving reveals the actual events during the three days that the Wampanoag people and the colonists came together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist Grace

Mack, Jonathan D.

Summary: "The fascinating story of Stephen Hopkins, perhaps the most important person on board the Mayflower when it sailed from England in 1620. The only member of the expedition who had been across the Atlantic before, as a survivor of the colony at Jamestown, Hopkins played a vital role in bridging the divide of suspicion between the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors. Without him, these...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOPKINS, STEPHEN MAC

Summary: From their self-imposed exile in Holland to their perilous crossing of the Atlantic, to their first year in the new world, Desperate Crossing is the definitive story of how the Pilgrims came to live and prosper in an unfamiliar land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DES

Greene, Rhonda Gowler.

Summary: Rhyming verses trace the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving Day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2002

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GRE

Yomtov, Nelson

Summary: "Plymouth Rock has long stood as a symbol of the Pilgrims' journey to and settlement in America. But how much of the story surrounding it is true? What did the Pilgrims' arrival mean to the Wampanoag people who were already living there? What were the long-lasting effects of the interactions between the two groups? How did a seaside rock come to be associated with the Pilgrims' landing, and was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 YOM

Summary: Establishing a home in the New World is by no means an easy task, particularly in the wild backcountry of North Carolina during a period of dramatic political upheaval. The Frasers strive to flourish within a society which, as Claire knows all too well, is unwittingly marching towards Revolution. Jamie must now defend this home established on land granted to him by the Crown although this new...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OUT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD OUT

Copies Available at Woodmere

6 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUT

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV OUT

Savage, James

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Publishing Company 1986

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.374 SA

Whitehurst, Susan.

Summary: Examines the relationship between the Pilgrims who came to American on the "Mayflower" in 1620 and the Wampanoag Indians who lived in the area, looking at how the Native Americans helped the Englishmen survive in the wilderness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2002

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.4 WHI

Dalcher, Christina

Summary: "A chilling look into an alternate near future where a woman and her daughter seek refuge in a women-only colony, only to find that the safe haven they were hoping for is the most dangerous place they could be. Miranda Reynolds always thought she would rather die than live in Femlandia. But that was before the country sank into total economic collapse and her husband walked out in the harshest,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAL

Gablé, Rebecca.

Summary: Set in northern Europe in the year 850, best friends Candamir and Osmund set out to find new land for their people after their village is attacked, but on their quest they encounter a violent storm and are washed ashore on the island of Catan where they quickly set about building a new society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2011

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gable 2011

Gagne, Peter J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quintin Publications 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3714 GAG

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