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Summary: Cousins Patrick and Beth work to protect runaway slave Sally as they travel by train with President-elect Abraham Lincoln through northern New York state in 1861 aboard The Lincoln Special, getting assistance from Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln and her son Willie along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2018
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Summary: It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILWeinstein, Ellen
Summary: "Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DONOstrom, Melissa
Summary: In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OSTGreene, Jacqueline Dembar.
Summary: When Rebecca attends summer camp in the country because of the spreading polio epidemic in New York City, she is troubled by a bully in her tent and another fellow camper who is strangely secretive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J AGHM GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREPintoff, Stefanie.
Summary: "The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele's jurisdiction in more ways than one. It's high profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensationalist trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist, set off a bomb at a Carnegie wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINBergen, Lara
Summary: A retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1997
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BERHoffman, Alice.
Summary: The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOFHoffman, Alice.
Summary: "An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in New York from 1911-1925"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hoffman 2014Barrett, Andrea.
Summary: Detached from the rest of the country on the eve of World War I, the tuberculosis-stricken residents of an Adirondack lakeside sanatorium are housed in accordance with their economic status and languish in their isolation before an enterprising patient initiates a weekly discussion group.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARBarton, Emily
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARErnst, Kathleen
Summary: A modern-day girl finds herself on the shore of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812, and as she and and Caroline Abbott experience life in this turbulent time, the reader is invited to choose how the twosome might help the Americans beat the British.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC ERNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AMEBenton, Lori.
Summary: "Formerly an Indian captive named Burning-Sky, Willa Obenchain unexpectedly returns to her family's New York homestead after her twelve-year absence. With faith in God and the skills to survive on the frontier, Willa must decide if love is possible as she faces the challenges brought on by her dual identities and an unforgiving land"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENDonnelly, Jennifer.
Summary: In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DONDonnelly, Jennifer.
Summary: In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DONDonati, Sara
Summary: In nineteenth-century New York, women's advancement has brought out the worst in some men. Two trailblazing female doctors continue to aid disadvantaged women society wants to forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DONLaskin, David
Summary: "A striking coming-of-age novel set in New York City at the beginning of 1970 as a young man escapes his Long Island suburb to Manhattan where he becomes swept up in the radical causes of the era. As the 1960s turn into 1970 in the Long Island suburb of Great Neck, seventeen-year old Sam Stein is falling in love for the first time. Kim is a young radical in a place where bourgeois white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASTooke, Wes.
Summary: Louis, who loves baseball despite being the worst stickball player in White Plains, New York, sees his opportunity to be bat boy for the 1961 Yankees team as the perfect way to escape the problems of his father's remarriage and moving to the suburbs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOOPintoff, Stefanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PINDonati, Sara
Summary: "From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York; Dr. Sophie Savard, daughter of free people of color returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr. Anna Savard, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DONCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: In the summer of 1984, twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace of Huntsville, Alabama, visits her father in Harlem, where her fascination with outer space and science fiction interfere with her finding acceptance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZOBIrving, Washington
Summary: In the first of these two tales set in the Catskill Mountains, a man sleeps for twenty years and wakens to a much-changed world; in the second, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986
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Summary: The year is 1883, and in New York City, it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie--both graduates of the Woman's Medical School--treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2015