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Lico Albanese, Laurie

Summary: "A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIC

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIC

Lico Albanese, Laurie

Summary: "A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 0000

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC LIC

Jiles, Paulette

Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JIL

Mustian, Kelly

Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark

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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC MUS BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperbacks)

Mustian, Kelly

Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021

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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUS

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MUS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mustian 2021

Rockliff, Mara

Summary: "In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women's suffrage movement was in full swing, and Nell and Alice would...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROC

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROC

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J324.6 ROC

Hering, Marianne.

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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Robuck, Erika.

Summary: A non-traditional 19th century artist, Sophia, falls in love with a talented writer, Nathaniel, and the pair begin a life together that spans continents, child-rearing and competing creative impulses.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROB

Woodman, Richard

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOO

Wiley, Jesse

Summary: It's 1850, and you are setting off on the treacherous Oregon Trail. In this first book of four, your goal is to get you and your family to Chimney Rock on time. But many dangers await you on the journey ahead. Wild animals, natural disasters, sickness, and other obstacles stand between you and your destination. Which path will get you safely across the prairie? With more than twenty possible...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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Rose, M. J.

Summary: "New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism. Shortly after the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROS

Wiley, Jesse

Summary: A family must survive the dangerous ford of the wild Snake River along the Oregon Trail, in a book where the reader's choices determine the outcome of the expedition.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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Hoffman, Alice

Summary: Ivy Jacob's ever-disappointed mother and stern father react badly to news of her teen pregnancy, prompting her to run away from her tiny Boston home for Western Massachusetts, where she's embraced by a group called The Community. There, she gives birth to her daughter, Mia, and marries the group's charismatic but controlling leader, Joel, when Mia is three months old. The Community's rules are...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Hoffman, Alice

2 holds on 6 copies

Summary: "One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community--an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOF

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HOF

Hoffman, Alice

Summary: One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HOF

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction Hoffman

Hoffman, Alice

Summary: "One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community -- an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HOF

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOF

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Hoffman

Smith, Nikki Shannon

Summary: In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SMI

Faye, Lyndsay.

Summary: In 1846 New York six months after the formation of the NYPD, officer Timothy Wilde investigates a ring of "blackbirders" who kidnap free people of color in the North and sell them to Southern plantations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books, G. P. Putnams Sons 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAY

Wiley, Jesse

Summary: "It's 1849. You and your family are at the halfway mark on your 2,000-mile journey West. You've set up camp near South Pass, Wyoming. A powerful storm strikes. Your wagon train must ford the river immediately. When crossing the wild water, the current pulls you in and separates you from your family. You wake up on a riverbank--lost and disoriented. You have no other choice by to find your way...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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

Sheinkin, Steve.

Summary: Tells the tale of the attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body out of the grave.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION SHE

Colman, Alyssa

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

Limbaugh, Rush H.

Summary: When one of the time-traveling crew is running for student-body president at Manchester Middle School, Rush Revere takes them back in history to witness the election and leadership of our first three presidents.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD J LIM

Burg, Ann E.

Summary: The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

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

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BUR

Jiles, Paulette

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. John's beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered. Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIL

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jiles

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