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Girls survive graphic novelsWalters, Louise.
Summary: Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old, works at The New and Old Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother's battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family's history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta's narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books, Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Walters 2014Hannah-Jones, Nikole
Summary: Stymied by her unfinished family tree assignment for school, a young girl seeks Grandma's counsel and learns about her ancestors, the consequences of slavery, and the history of Black resistance in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HANValpy, Fiona
Summary: "Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer; and Vivienne's involvement is something she can't reveal to either of them. Two generations later, Claire's English granddaughter Harriet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC VALGordon, Mary
Summary: "From the award-winning, much loved writer: a deeply moving novel about an American woman's place during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she took from it, and how her story will shape her granddaughter's path. Marian cut herself off from her conservative, wealthy Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War--experiences she has always kept to herself. Now in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORRubinate, Amy
Summary: In September 1666 Kate and her little sister Lizzie accompany their grandfather to London to sell their apple crop only to be caught up in the Great Fire of London--and when their grandfather is forced to be part of a fire brigade it is Kate who must keep her sister, their horse and cart safe from both thieves and flames.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RUB (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Jenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021