Larson, Erik.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1994
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Summary: An introduction to the most famous pirate in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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Summary: Chronicles one teacher's efforts to reach out and help the extremely troubled Seung-Hui Cho, which were hampered by the school's rules regarding student confidentiality, leading to the April 2007 massacre of 32 students at Virginia Tech.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2009
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Summary: From the sprawling green countryside of Shenandoah to the mists rising over the Great Smoky Mountains, endless adventure and beauty await along America's most scenic highway.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Ferguson 2001
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 FERGreen, Kristen
Summary: "While Confederate statues are brought down across the country, America is reckoning with its tumultuous past and the legacy of the darker chapters of our history. In The Devil's Half Acre, New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years ofdeep research to tell the extraordinary hidden story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who sought freedom and lit a path for liberation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2022
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Summary: "The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle was among the fiercest single-day battles of the entire Civil War. How did the bullet-riddled stump of a once-mighty oak tree there become a symbol of the conflict? What can its story tell us about that day's battle and the broader history of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia State Library and Archives 1985
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Summary: Describes the peaceful protest organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure a permanent building for her segregated high school in Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions helped fuel the civil rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB POWELL KANSummary: This work is essentially a compilation of articles that deal wholly or in part with muster and pay rolls, court order books, pension records, land claims, depositions, petitions, militia lists, orderly books, and service records. The majority of the articles focus on the records of the colonial and Revolutionary War periods, but there also are some that relate to the War of 1812. In the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1982
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Summary: Presents basic information about West Virginia, including important cities, fun facts, and places of interest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.4 TIEVirginia State Library
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archives Branch, Archives and Records Division, Virginia State Library 1981
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3755 ClaLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASLittle, Barbara Vines
Contents: Research in West Virginia -- Early history and settlement -- Archives, libraries, and societies -- Major resources : aids to research -- Atlases, gazetteers, and maps -- Bible records -- Biographical guides -- Cemetery records -- Censuses and census substitutes -- Church records -- Colonial and state government records -- County formation and records -- Court records -- Directories -- Ethnic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2017
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3754 LITGreen, Kristen.
Summary: Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history-- the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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Summary: "To say Virginia "Dindy" Hall was ambitious would be an understatement. She was that girl at your high school who makes everyone else look like a slacker, no matter how hard they're working. But how many of them can say they've been on Nazi Germany's Most Wanted list? At a time when most women were expected to becomes wives and mothers, Virginia craved adventure. And with the world gearing up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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Summary: Shares the story behind the creation of Sargent's famous painting, which propelled the artist to fame but condemned his young subject to a lifetime of ridicule and self-loathing due to the work's perceived sexuality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin Group 2003
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Summary: "A lyrical picture book biography that tells the story of one of America's most celebrated children's book authors, Virginia Hamilton, the first African American to win the Newbery Medal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "An action-packed graphic novel about Virginia Hall, known as one of the most courageous spies of World War II. In the early 1940s, during World War II, Germany's Nazi regime expanded into neighboring European countries, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and other groups. Enter: Virginia Hall. Born on a small Maryland farm, this brilliant woman's worldly ambitions led her to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Summary: "Examines the life of enslaved African-American Nat Turner and the events leading up to the slave rebellion he led in 1831."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TURSmyth, Katharine
Summary: Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death--a calamity that claimed her favorite person--she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia State Library 1983
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Summary: May 1996. Lollie Winans and Julie Williams entered Virginia's Shenandoah National Park for a week-long backcountry camping trip. The couple had met and fallen in love the previous summer while working at an outdoor program for women. During their final days in the park, they descended the narrow remnants of a trail and pitched their tent in a hidden spot. After the pair did not return home as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 MILPrice, David A. (David Andrew)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003