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Goodman, Joanna

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: In 1992, an assassin's daughter fights for Quebec's independence at the side of the man she loves, a separatist-opposing journalist whose sister, one of the Duplessis orphans--thousands of children falsely certified as mentally ill in the 1950s and 1960sby the provincial government--joins a reparations coalition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOO

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked 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 men deep underground each day, dreading...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RUS

Grainger, Jean

Summary: "Queenstown, County Cork. 1920. For twenty-year-old Harp Deveraux, life should be idyllic. At university, she feels for the first time in her life that she belongs, her mother Rose is running the Cliff House as a successful business, and her childhood sweetheart JohnJoe is by her side, but the storm clouds of war grow ever darker. For eight hundred years Ireland had made numerous bids for her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grainger

Butler-Ngugi, Anitra

Summary: "It's May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing their jobs. So, children are protesting in their place. As Nina prepares for her day, she knows she will likely be arrested and put in jail, but it's a price she is willing to pay so that all...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BUT

Russell, Mary Doria

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 copper-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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

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Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: In July 1913, 25-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risked 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 men deep underground each day, dreading...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Rus

Hannah, Kristin

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Summary: In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France ... but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When France is overrun, Vianne is forced to take an enemy into her house,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015

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Russell, Mary Doria

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 207 FIC RUS

Dray, Stephanie.

Summary: The daughter of Cleopatra, Princess Selene, struggles to survive amidst political and romantic intrigue after her parents are vanquished by Rome and she becomes the object of desire and obsession for the new and ruthless Caesar.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRA

Dray, Stephanie.

Summary: Pledging allegiance to Emperor Augustus, Selene faces uncertainty among the imperial politics and religious persecution of Rome and must decide between her loyalty to the emperor or to Egypt and her birthright.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRA

Engle, Margarita

Summary: In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENG

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENG

Hilderbrand, Elin

2 holds on 5 copies

Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HIL

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIL

Russell, Mary Doria

1 hold on 11 copies

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019

Copies Available at Kingsley

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS
1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC RUS

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Russell 2019

Finkbeiner, Susie

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys -- she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All-American Girls...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FIN

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Finkbeiner

Gratz, Alan

Summary: "Josef es un chico judío que vive en la Alemania nazi, Isabel es una chica cubana que se ve obligada a huir de su país después de las revueltas en contra del gobierno de Castro, en 1994, y Mahmoud es un muchacho que padece la guerra de Siria en 2015. Tres jóvenes distintos y una misión en común: huir de su país."--Publisher's description.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Santillana 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH GRA

Taylor, Jordyn

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Hilderbrand, Elin

Summary: "Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, this year nothing is the same: Blair, the eldest sister, is stranded in Boston, pregnant with twins and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

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Hilderbrand, Elin

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Summary: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HIL

Guerra, Wendy

Summary: "A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUE

Wiles, Deborah

Summary: "IMAGINE: You are a student in America. You are protesting a war. Or maybe you are just walking to class. The National Guard is called onto your campus. Imagine you are a young guardsman. The protest grows stronger. So does the confusion, the chaos, the fear. The guardsmen open fire. Imagine this is your school. Imagine this is your town. Imagine this is your country. Imagine American troops...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WIL

Shabazz, Ilyasah

Summary: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHA

Gratz, Alan

Summary: Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Connolly, Rebecca

Summary: "Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. ... Young schoolteacher Andrée Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. Andrée is not Jewish, but she feels a maternal connection to her students, who are living in constant fear, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CON

Gratz, Alan

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRA
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRA

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Gratz 2017

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