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African Americans New York (State) New York History English language Alphabet Friendship Juvenile fiction Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Fiction Harlem (New York, N.Y.) History Indians of North America West (U.S.) Fiction Irish Americans Irish Americans Fiction West United StatesCollins, Olive
Summary: "In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLMcClure, Marcia Lynn
Summary: "Genieva Bankmans and Brevan McLean had agreed to a marriage of convenience when she responded to his advertisement for a wife. Yet even as their attraction to each other becomes stronger, secrets concerning the McLean family and land threaten their relationship and endanger their lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANL'Amour, Louis
Summary: "Pronto Pike had known plenty of trouble, but none like that winter on Hanging Woman Creek. He and his partner Eddie Holt - as good a man with a rifle as ever rode - were making things tough for the rustlers lifting Bar J cattle. Then Ann Farley came to stay with her brother and vigilantes cut them down. Pronto and Eddie knew they had real trouble because men who will shoot at a woman will do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Helprin, Mark.
Summary: One night, Peter Lake -- orphan, master-mechanic, and master second-story man -- attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between the middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. Because of a love that at first he cannot fully understand, Peter, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HELKrohn, Katherine E.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in the American West from the 1840s to the 1890s, examining the clothing and accessories of Native Americans, early pioneers, and the men and women of different social classes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-first Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 KROLee, Lyla
Summary: "Determined to go to an elite art camp, young Korean American girl Gigi Shin starts a tutoring club with her friends to make money, but when the first few sessions are chaotic, she wonders if she'll end up sacrificing more than she bargained for to achieve her dreams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEEIreland, Justina
Summary: The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC IRESummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRECombs, Harry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Nelson, Megan Kate
Summary: "A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West during the Civil War, revealing a little-known, vastly important episode in American history. In The Three-Cornered War Megan Kate Nelson reveals the fascinating history of the Civil War in the American West. Exploring the connections among the Civil War, the Indian wars, and western expansion,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 NELWhitson, Stephanie Grace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIL'Amour, Louis
Summary: Crispin Mayo had a wish to walk the high land with the company of eagles and the shadow of clouds. But what he found was danger and wild adventure when the train he is traveling on leaves him at a remote station on the plains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC L'AMMorales, Areli
Summary: "In the first picture book written by a DACA dreamer, Areli Morales tells her own powerful and vibrant immigration story of moving from a quiet town in Mexico to the bustling and noisy metropolis of New York City"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MORMeloy, Ellen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9 MELHelprin, Mark
Summary: "One winter night, Peter Lake--master mechanic and second-story man--attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty , the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HELFergus, Jim
Summary: "9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FerMirchandani, Raakhee
Summary: "Super Satya is ready to have a super day, including finally conquering the tallest slide in Hoboken. But her day takes a not-so-super turn when she realizes her superhero cape is stuck at the dry cleaner. Will she be able to face her fears, help her friends and be the true hero everyone knows she is? Super Satya Saves The Day introduces Satya, a precocious Indian-American superhero."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bharat Babies 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MIRClavin, Tom
Summary: "The thrilling true story of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of the great gang of outlaws. The Dalton Gang consisted of four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices who saw themselves as descended from the legendary James Gang. They soon became legends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "Discusses the heroic actions and experiences of the Buffalo Soldiers and the impact they made during times of war or conflict"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 BAKEarling, Debra Magpie
Summary: Raised among the Lemhi Shoshone, Sacajewea [sic] learns all the ways to survive. When her village is raided, she is kidnapped and then gambled away to Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper. Now she must learn to survive in a new world teeming with fur trappers and traders. When Lewis and Clark's expedition arrives, Sacajewea must cross a vast and brutal terrain with her newborn son, the white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EARMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MYEWhitson, Stephanie Grace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIJohnson, Dinah
Summary: "A richly informative alphabet picture book celebrating Harlem's vibrant traditions, past and present"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022