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Ejiofor, Chiwetel

Summary: Tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was abducted in Washington, D.C., and forced to spend the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 12 Y

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Twelve 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED R

Hall, Brian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAL

Grey, Zane

Summary: Besieged by British rangers and Shawnee Indians, the settlers of Fort Henry must make a valiant stand in one of the last battles of the American Revolution, and their only hope is Betty Zane, who runs the gauntlet to retrieve the last keg of gunpowder.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1961

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Pyper, Andrew

Summary: "In this gripping and terrifying horror story based on true events, the President's late son haunts the White House, breaking the spirit of what remains of the First Family and the divided America beyond the residence's walls. The year is 1853. President-elect Franklin Pierce is traveling with his family to Washington, DC, when tragedy strikes. In an instant, their train runs off the rails,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skybound Book 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYP

Summary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STO

McCrumb, Sharyn

Summary: A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording reimagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula, in a meticulously researched accountthat reveals additional information that may prove Dula's innocence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction McCrumb 2011

Garwood, Haley Elizabeth.

Summary: This is a tale of a warrior, Empress Matilda, daughter of King Henry I of England and granddaughter of William the Conqueeror.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Writers Block 1998

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: FAN GARWO

Cornwell, Bernard

Summary: "If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her sister Mary, widow of President Lincoln, has attempted suicide. If Mary's sisters can put past grievances aside, will their love be powerful enough to save her?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHI

Scott, Michael

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the humani race.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCO

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCO

Summary: Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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Scott, Michael

Summary: Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC Sco

Scott, Michael

Summary: Nicholas Flamel and teenaged twins Josh and Sophie Newman return to San Francisco where a weakened Flamel reunites with his wife, Perenelle, hoping to use his remaining power to prevent the monsters on Alcatraz Island from escaping. Meanwhile, Dr. John Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power and the twins desperately try to determine who they can trust as they search for Scatty and an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2011

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCO

Sharratt, Mary

Summary: Bishop's Lynn, England, 1413. At the age of forty, Margery Kempe has nearly died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Fearing that another pregnancy might kill her, she makes a vow of celibacy, but she can't trust her husband to keep his end of the bargain. Desperate for counsel, she visits the famous anchoress Dame Julian of Norwich and confesses that she has been haunted by visceral...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

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Bruchac, Joseph

Summary: Sacajawea, a Shoshoni Indian interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, and William Clark alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Northwest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Whistle 2000

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BRU

Lake, Nick.

Summary: In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in 1804.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAK

Cornwell, Bernard.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Richard Sharpe is twice a hero in Wellington's campaign to protect Spain against Napoleon, and is looking forward to promotion and eager to be on the leading edge of battle, but other conflicts ensue, including the need to protect his infant daughter and her mother, and the necessity to protect himself from a fellow officer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

Gordon, Alan (Alan R.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOR

Williams-Garcia, Rita

Summary: In 1860 Louisiana, eighty-year-old Madame Sylvie decides to sit for a portrait, as horrific stories that span generations from the big house and the fields are revealed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WIL

Scott, Michael

Summary: Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC SCO

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCO

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCO

Scott, Michael.

Summary: Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SCO

Summary: A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2017

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE QUE

Pearl, Matthew.

Summary: Set in Boston in the year 1865, the Dante Club, a small group of literary genuises, prepares the final work on America's first translation of the Divine Comedy. Their plans come to an abrupt halt, however, when a series of murders occur in a form adopted from Dante's Inferno and its unique account of punishment in Hell. With lives endangered and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEA

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Summary: Blizzard of the blue moon: Jack and Annie go back in time to New York City, during one of the darkest periods in the city's history--the Great Depression. Even worse, the city is in the grip of a terrible snowstorm. To stop the blizzard, Jack and Annie must save the unicorn made famous in the Cloister's medieval tapestries. But will that be enough to help a city that faces so many troubles?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD OSB

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