Berne, Emma Carlson
Summary: "Kaya is a Nez Perce girl who takes pride in helping out and supporting the tribe--and also in her beloved horse, Steps High. But when she chooses racing her horse over family responsibilities, Kaya has to prove herself to earn her tribe's respect. Kaya's story of adventure in the wilderness is sure to engage today's readers as they learn what it was like to be a Native American girl in 1764 in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: New York City, 1990. Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and on his first date, quickly falling in love with Callum like the movies always promised. Fashion-obsessed Ben is eighteen and has just left his home upstate after his mother discovers his hidden stash of gay magazines. When Callum disappears, it leaves Adam heartbroken. Ben finds out his new world is more closed-minded than he thought. In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHACarey, Peter
Summary: Ned Kelly, the legendary nineteenth-century Australian folk-hero, describes how he, his brother, and two friends led authorities on a twenty-month manhunt, marked by widespread populist support, before his capture and execution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2017Wallmark, Laurie
Summary: "A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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Summary: On the day that shocks the world, one boy just wants to find his family. A powerful addition to the gripping I survived series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: A novel inspired by the life of the Vogue model-turned-renowned photographer finds Lee Miller relocating to 1929 Paris, where she becomes the muse and colleague of the mercurial surrealist, Man Ray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Scharer 2019McCammon, Robert R.
Summary: The journey begins when Matthew, now an apprentice problem solver for the London-based Herrald Agency, accepts an unusual and hazardous commission. Together with his colleague, Hudson Greathouse, he agrees to escort the notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter from an asylum outside Philadelphia to the docks of New York. Along the way, Slaughter makes his captors a surprising--and extremely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCProse, Francine
Summary: In 1953 at a distinguished New York publishing firm, Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate, is tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg--a project that makes him realize that the people around him are not what they seem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2005
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Summary: "In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler's legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person's paradise can be another's prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PETTarshis, Lauren.
Summary: When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Tarshis 2012Horan, Ellen
Summary: Committed to justice and the law, New York City defense attorney Henry Clinton will aid the vulnerable widow Emma Cunningham in her desperate fight to save herself from the gallows as they both seek to discover who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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Summary: "Any child can spark magic, but only the elite are allowed to kindle it. Those denied access to the secrets of the kindling ritual will see their magic snuffed out before their thirteenth birthday. Miss Posterity's Academy for Practical Magic is the best kindling school in New York City--and wealthy twelve-year-old Emma Harris is accustomed to the best. But when her father dies, leaving her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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Summary: "Seven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America, traders chafe at government regulations, racial tensions are rising, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians... 1799 was a hell of a year. Thanks to Alexander Hamilton, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil's Half Mile (aka Wall Street), but the young country is still finding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2018
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Summary: "From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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Summary: "Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches, returns with another riveting tale of family, witchcraft, and love that spans generations, set in Gilded Age New York and London. Harriet Bishop, descended from a long line of witches, uses magic to help women in need -- not only ordinary women, but also those with powers of their own. She must intervene when a distant cousin wields...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORGrainger, Jean
Summary: "Harp Devereaux is torn. Part of her desperately wants to return to Ireland to finish what her and her family and friends started, and to witness the departure of the British forces from Ireland after eight hundred long years. But the other part finds life in America during the Roaring Twenties too exciting to trade for the sleepy streets of Country Cork. She and JohnJoe are united and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREBrill, Ethel C. (Ethel Claire)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethlehem Books 1996
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Summary: In New Orleans after the Civil War, John Bell Hood, arguably one of the most controversial generals of the confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures--struggles with his inability to admit his failures until those who taught him to love, and to be loved, transformed him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HICBarrett, Shirley
Summary: In 1908, Mary Davidson, tasked with supporting her father's boisterous whaling crews while caring for her five brothers and sisters after the death of their mother, must navigate through sibling rivalries and an all-consuming first love for a new crew member.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: The intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York City and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009