Anderson, Beth

Summary: After being denied a seat on a New York City streetcar, Elizabeth Jennings begins the fight for equality by telling her story in churches, to newspapers, and finally in the courtroom.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JEN

Dray, Philip

Summary: "A book on a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism and eventually inspiring a powerful novella by Stephen Crane"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 DRA

Ostrom, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2018

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

Catel, Patrick

Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the New York Colony"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 CAT

Hartman, Darrell

Summary: "A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get--and sell--the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998 HAR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998 HAR

Rusick, Jessica

Summary: This title examines Ground Zero from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the cleanup of the debris of the Word Trade Center to the construction of the Freedom Tower, the Tribute in Light, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, and the continued rebuilding of the World Trade Center complex's buildings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.71 RUS

Greene, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2010

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J AGHM GRE

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

Kelly, Jack

Summary: "The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386 KEL

Worth, Richard

Summary: The Harlem Renaissance was like a magnificent fireworks display; it was colorful, brilliant, and in a few moments, it was over. This was the first time African Americans had led a cultural movement and the first time that white Americans had paid attention to their achievements. Through striking images and fascinating details, this book examines the origins of the Harlem Renaissance, especially...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 974.7 WOR

Kluger, Richard

Summary: In 1733, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching the New-York Weekly Journal, which assailed the British governor as corrupt and arrogant -- a direct challenge to the prevailing law against "seditious libel", which criminalized any criticism of the government. Fronting for a group of powerful antiroyalist politicians, Zenger was jailed for nine months...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZENGER, JOHN PETER KLU

Bergen, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 1997

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BER

Shaffer, Bill

Summary: A sordid tale of bigamy, bribery, sex, and violence, set in the Gilded Age, explores the ill-fated saga of Ray, an Alexander Hamilton heir, and his wife, a con artist who tricked him into marriage using an abandoned infant, and who went to prison for stabbing their baby's nurse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SHA

Summary: For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2009

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOO

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD WOO

Donnelly, 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2003

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

Otis, Cindy L.

Summary: Quinn Calvet was supposed to be having an epic year. She had all kinds of plans with her best friend, Ximena, and sister, Ava, and to grow her following as an influencer on The Whine. Instead, Quinn finds herself third wheel to Ximena and her new boyfriend or getting ditched by Ava who has turned into an overachiever, obsessed with studying and joining every school club. It brings up Quinn's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2023

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

Grundset, Eric.

Contents: Developing a New York State research strategy -- Major research centers in New York State and elsewhere with Revolutionary War collections -- Geographical factors affecting research in New York State suggested sources for New York georgraphy to help determine place of residence of individuals -- Pre-revolutionary events in the province of New York -- General histories of the American Revolution...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3747 Grundset

Jackson, Aaron

Summary: "Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater dressing room, August March was raised by an ancient laundress. Highly intelligent, a tad feral, August is a true child of the theater. But like all productions, August's wondrous time inside the theater comes to a close, and he finds himself in the wilds of postwar New York City, where he quickly rises from pickpocket street urchin...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

Rusick, Jessica

Summary: This title examines events of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from the initial impacts to the declaration of the War on Terror, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and the creation of museums and monuments. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.931 RUS

Murray, Julie

Summary: Explore New York in this comprehensive title! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversized photos showcase the beauty and diversity of this state. Readers learn about the state's history, cities, land features, animals, industries, sports, famous people, and more! A Tour Book spread highlights kid-friendly things to do in New York. Other features include a table of contents, fun facts, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 MUR

Donati, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

Phillips, Tom

Summary: After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pixel+Ink 2022

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

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