Armand, Glenda
Summary: During the Great Migration in 1930's Louisiana, eight-year-old Jenny tries to understand why a man named Jim Crow is making trouble for her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARMRunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: "December 1917. As World War I rages in Europe, twenty-four-year-old Ruby Wagner, the jewel in a prominent Philadelphia family, prepares for her upcoming wedding to a society scion. Like her life so far, it's all been carefully arranged. But when her beloved older brother is killed in combat, Ruby follows her heart and answers the Army Signal Corps' call for women operators to help overseas. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNHeaden, Sandra W.
Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEASmith, Nikki Shannon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMIThomas, Kai
Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOLeZotte, Ann Clare
Summary: "As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEZOstrom, 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 OSTButler-Ngugi, Anitra
Summary: "It's May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing their jobs. So, children are protesting in their place. As Nina prepares for her day, she knows she will likely be arrested and put in jail, but it's a price she is willing to pay so that all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BUTLilac, Jamie
Summary: Beau Bellegarde, a second-born son, makes a deal: if he can turn Evie Clément, the unapproachable baker's daughter, into the winner of the Court Ball, making her the most desired bachelorette in Paris, he inherits the family fortune, but his target has plans of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LILO'Connor, Joseph
Summary: "Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OCOMarsh, Sarah
Summary: "Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARHenderson, Eleanor
Summary: "Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HENPeterson, Tracie.
Summary: When winsome socialite Mia Stanley insists on researching downtrodden seaman's wives on the docks of Philadelphia for the magazine she works for, she uncovers a scheme that puts her own life in danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PeterPhelan, Matt
Summary: In 1783 France, ten-year-old Emile works as Benjamin Franklin's caretaker, but after he finds himself in the middle of a sinister plot, he helps France's undercover guardians, a sheep, a rooster and a duck save the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PHESaracino, Luciano
Summary: In this graphic novel adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic, the ex-convict Jean Valjean strives to build a new life in nineteenth century Paris and protect his adopted daughter, Cosette, but he is pursued by the fanatical police inspector Javert who does not believe in redemption--until it is too late for both of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SARScott, Caroline
Summary: "With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat... England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression. Stella Douglas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: The bastard son of Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin, is named the new Royal Governor of New Jersey, but all he has achieved is threatened when the colonies, led by influential figures including his own father, begin the fight for independence--a cause he refuses to support.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CABHoran, Nancy
Summary: "An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC HORHoran, Nancy
Summary: "An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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Thomas, Sarah Loudin
Summary: "After promising a town he'd find them water and then failing, Sullivan Harris is on the run; but he grows uneasy when one success makes folks ask him to find other things-like missing items or sons. When men are killed digging the Hawk's Nest Tunnel, Sully is compelled to help, and it becomes the catalyst for finding what even he has forgotten-hope"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSpringer, Nancy
Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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Summary: Annabelle Taylor and Harrison Graymoor are an unlikely couple trying desperately not to fall in love after they are forced into an undesired predicament in 1832 Philadelphia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARMullarkey, John
Summary: On May 31, 1889, as the waters rise in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Sarah Beth, her mother, and Vincent, a boy she likes, struggle to save what they can from the flooding but when the dam collapses the reader is invited to choose between three possible endings for Sarah Beth and her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MULAvi
Summary: Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli which reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book--then Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022