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Alternative histories (Fiction), American Canada History To 1763 (New France) Civilization, Western Philosophy Mississippi River Valley History To 1803 North America History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Renaissance Seventeenth century Fiction Time travel Fiction United StatesNational Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Summary: This current edition of the Lineage Book was authorized for the benefit of newer members and Chapters, prospective members, and other researchers of early colonial ancestors. It is an index with both original and supplemental lines and services, names of the living descendant member with the Chapter affiliation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Company 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 ROB 1896-1989National Society, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century
Summary: This current edition of the Lineage Book was authorized for the benefit of newer members and Chapters, prospective members, and other researchers of early colonial ancestors. It is an index with both original and supplemental lines and services, names of the living descendant member with the Chapter affiliation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Company 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.373 ROB 1896-1999Flint, Eric.
Summary: A third volume in the series of anthologies based on the saga that began in "1632" describes life for the inhabitants of Grantville, an American town from West Virginia that finds itself hurtled back in time and into the middle of the Thirty Years War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIVenezia, Mike.
Summary: Briefly examines the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1988
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB REMBRANDT VENStephenson, Neal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STEPFlint, Eric.
Summary: Struggling to adjust to civilian life in a postwar seventeenth-century alternate-history Russia, ex-soldier Bernie Zeppi is hired by a government emissary to help usher in a new era of slavish serfdom to Moscow, where Bernie becomes an unexpected advocate of social progress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIHawke, David Freeman.
Summary: Describes seventeenth century American farms, houses, health care, manners, crimes and punishments, warfare, and superstition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 HawBoerst, William J.
Summary: Presents the life and work of the famous seventeenth-century British physicist Sir Isaac Newton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds Pub. 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Pratt, Lucy.
Contents: Medieval gothic and the English renaissance -- Heels, buckles, and bows : the seventeenth century -- Taste and elegance : 1700-1750 -- The revolutionary shoe : 1750-1795 -- Classicism and romanticism : 1795 to the mid-1830s -- Shopping for shoes : 1700-1835 -- Towards the modern age : 1837-1914 -- Austerity and glamour : 1914-1939 -- Forty years of innovation : 1939-1979 -- Shaping the future :...
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Publisher / Publication Date: V&A Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.413 PRAParkman, Francis
Contents: v. 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old regime in Canada -- v. 2. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1983
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.01 PARParkman, Francis
Contents: v. 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old râegime in Canada -- v. 2. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Amer NF Parkman v.2Holub, Joan
Summary: Describes the events of the seventeenth-century Salem witchcraft trials, recounting the most notable cases and discussing the way the trials were conducted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345 HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What HolubZimmerman, Jean.
Summary: In seventeenth-century New Amsterdam, twenty-two-year-old trader Blandine von Couvering and British spy Edward Drummond investigate the mysterious disappearance of orphan children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZIMFels, Tony
Summary: In Switching Sides, Tony Fels traces a remarkable shift in scholarly interpretations of the Salem witch hunt from the post{u2013}World War II era up through the present. Fels explains that for a new generation of historians influenced by the radicalism of the New Left in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Salem panic acquired a startlingly different meaning. Determined to champion the common people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 FELProenza-Coles, Christina
Summary: "American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NewSouth Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PROSummary: The development of reeds from those played loudly by the Saracens to frighten the Crusaders' horses, to the seventeenth-century forerunners of today's orchestral reed instruments.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Foster, Bob
Summary: John Smith, an English soldier, and Pocahontas, the daughter of an Algonquin chief, fall in love when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISSummary: An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TULSummary: Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREFlint, Eric
Summary: The inhabitants of Grantville, a modern-day West Virginia town hurtled back in time to Germany during the Thirty Years War, battle the tyrants of seventeenth-century Europe, in a second collection of alternate history tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIBoston, L. M. (Lucy Maria)
Summary: Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BOSCheever, Susan.
Summary: Presents an exploration of the history of drinking in the United States, discussing how alcohol has shaped American history and character from the seventeenth century to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CHEHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child, the product of an adulterous relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A portrait of a woman victimized by the strictures of seventeenth-century feudal Japanese society, from her beginnings as the daughter of a samurai and ending up as a prostitute.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013