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African Americans Juvenile fiction Magic Fiction Military campaigns Narwhal Fiction Time travel Fiction Tree houses Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Battlefields Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction Vikings FictionEnger, Leif.
Summary: An aging train robber on a quest to reconcile with his wife and a failed writer head west and are pursued by an ex-Pinkerton who's been hunting the train robber for years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: "The powerful new work from one of our greatest historical novelists, A Slant of Light deals with profoundly seminal American moments: the end of the Civil War, the religious freedom that was manifested in the Second Great Awakening, the last gasps of the Jeffersonian ideal of American yeomanry, the shadow on the horizon of the Industrial Revolution. At the heart of the novel are two men: one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENLent, Jeffrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENWeiss, Leah
Summary: In North Carolina, during World War II, two girls--Lucy Brown and Allie Bert Tucker--decide to solve crimes just like Nancy Drew. Their chance comes when a man goes missing from town. Before they can solve the case, a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp opens, and more men go missing. Together the girls embark on a journey to discover if we ever really know who the enemy is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEILevy, Deborah
Summary: It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic who will be his host, Saul's girlfriend will shoot a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road, an homage to the famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLIUris, Leon
Summary: The son of a legendary Civil War marine, Zachary O'Hara struggles to keep the marines a viable part of the nation's military and falls in love with heiress Amanda Kerr, a relationship that is threatened by a painful secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URICline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and strunggles in 1940's Chicago.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLICline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLIUris, Leon
Summary: Two decades after the Civil War, first-generation Irish-American Zachary O'Hara, son of a legendary Marine and a force of a man in his own right, finds himself playing a critical role as the very existence of the Marine Corps is being decided. If he can help persuade the Secretary of the Navy that the Marines will be crucial to America's security in years to come-- all the while hefting a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC URILevy, Lawrence H
Summary: "A historical mystery about a female detective hunting a serial killer...It's the summer of 1894, and an infidelity case has brought PI Mary Handley to a far corner of Brooklyn: Coney Island. In the midst of her investigation, Mary is contacted by a convicted man's brother to reopen a murder case. A prostitute was killed by a Jack the Ripper copycat years ago in her New York hotel room, but her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVSavage, Les.
Summary: Just a few years before the War of 1812, Natchez-Under-the-Hill rang with the cries of hawkers and harlots, the curses of brawling river boatmen and the clank of slave chains. It was a lusty and turbulent time on the mighty Mississippi. Owen Naylor and Charlotte Dumaine are united in their effort to put steam power on the river, an idea that threatens the traditional reign of the keelboats....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: In the wake of the Allies' victory in North Africa, 1,000 Italian soldiers have been sent to a remote island off the Scottish coast to wait out the war. Their arrival has divided the island's community. Nerves frayed from three years of war and the constant threat of invasion, many locals fear the enemy prisoners and do not want them there. Where their neighbors see bloodthirsty enemies,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEAOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Greenland where they discover they've traveled back in time to meet Lief Erikson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 33Shaara, Jeff
Summary: The Civil War did not end quietly. It climaxed in a storm of fury that lay waste to everything in its path. The Fateful Lightning brings to life those final brutal, bloody months of fighting with you-are-there immediacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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Summary: "June, 1950: the North Korean army, a formidable force backed by Soviet arms and training, invades South Korea, with the intent of uniting the country under Communist rule. In response, the United States mobilizes a force to defend the overmatched South Korean troops. But the US is no better equipped than their allies. The American and United nations troops are fighting for their lives against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Shaara 2017Shaara, Jeff
Summary: The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting new novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the annals of combat: the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as Frozen Chosin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: "In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: As the forces of Nazi Germany overrun the nations of Europe and America is drawn into the war by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American troops and their British allies launch a campaign to stop Hitler on battlefields ranging from the deserts of North Africa to the rugged mountains of Sicily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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Summary: Cash McLendon, reluctant hero of the epic Indian battle at Adobe Walls, has journeyed to Mountain View in the Arizona Territory with one goal: to convince Gabrielle Tirrito that he's a changed man and win her back from schoolteacher Joe Saint. As they're about to depart by stage for their new life in San Francisco, Gabrielle is kidnapped by enforcer Killer Boots, who is working on orders from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: A fictional account of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, told from the perspectives of participants on both sides, recreates the April 1862 surprise attack by Confederate forces on the Union Army at Shiloh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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Summary: This concluding novel of Shaara's epic Civil War tetralogy tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives: the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through William Tecumseh Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2015Shaara, Jeff
Summary: The last year of the Civil War as seen by the two commanding generals, Grant and Lee. The novel is the final volume in a trilogy, begun by the author's father with The Killer Angels. In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time, an enduring bestseller that has sold more than two million copies. In the bestselling Gods and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1998