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African Americans Anniversaries, etc African Americans Social life and customs Galveston (Tex.) Fiction Galveston (Tex.) History 20th century Hurricanes Hurricanes Texas Galveston History 20th century Juneteenth Juneteenth Juvenile literature Slaves Emancipation United States Texas GalvestonGunderson, Jessica
Summary: "In September 1900, the people of Galveston, Texas, knew a storm was coming. But they'd experienced storms before and didn't think much of it. However, the hurricane that hit on September 8 was more powerful and damaging than anybody expected. Will you find a way to survive the storm and write about the experience for the local newspaper? Can you find a way to save your family's business and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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Summary: "As a hurricane gathered in the Caribbean, blue skies covered Galveston, Texas. Scientists knew a storm was coming. But none of them were able to prepare Galveston for the force of the hurricane that hit on September 8, 1900. The water from the storm surge pulled houses off their foundations, and the winds toppled telephone poles and trees like toothpicks. And amid the chaos, Galveston's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2022
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Summary: "It's 1900, and Charlie feels lucky to live in Galveston, Texas. Sure, there are storms sometimes. But nobody worries about hurricanes. Even a famous weather expert says it's impossible for a strong hurricane to strike Galveston. Which is why few people worry on the morning of September 8, when a big storm starts to brew. but Charlie watches with growing horror as monster waves rise up from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TARCooper, Floyd
Summary: Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE COOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COOGunderson, Jessica
Summary: In early September 1900, twelve-year-old Carrie of Galveston is looking forward to spending Saturday night at her friend's house, until her parents are invited to a very important party and she is forced to stay home and take care of her little brother; but a boring chore turns into a nightmare when the storm surge from the Great Hurricane hits and their house is swept off its foundation--and...
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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 GUNOtfinoski, Steven.
Summary: "In You Choose format, explores the history of Juneteenth Day, including the Emancipation Proclamation, the post-Civil War South, and efforts to end racism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.896 OTFNelson, Robin
Summary: Examines the history of Juneteenth and describes some of the ways the holiday is celebrated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE NEL BASKETRoker, Al
Summary: Presents an account of the legendary hurricane to assess its destruction of Galveston, role in thousands of deaths, and influence on American history and culture. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.8 ROKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 ROKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 ROKTarshis, Lauren
Summary: The city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, Galveston had been founded in the 1830s. By 1900, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Boats loaded up with American cotton and wheat steamed from Galveston to countries around the world. Arriving ships were crowded with immigrants. The streets, paved with crushed oyster shells, sparkled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A groundbreaking documentary series sheds new light on real-estate icon, Robert Durst, while unraveling one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in New York history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JINLarson, Erik.
Summary: Galveston, Texas, 8 September 1900. It's another fine day in the Gulf according to Isaac Cline, chief observer of the new US Weather Bureau, but one day later, 6-10,000 people were dead, wiped out by the biggest storm the coast of America had ever witnessed. Isaac Cline was confident of his ability to predict the weather: he had new technology at his disposal, 'perfect science', and, like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1999
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Summary: "Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's novel is about one woman--and a nation--struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BIRCenter, Katherine
Summary: "Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas-the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter-a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Center 2020Gray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "Robert Truax, former Second Lieutenant and Confederate officer in the Civil War, came to Galveston, Texas, after the war to fulfill his promise to a dying comrade to look after his widow. He didn't expect to find love in the unlikeliest of places"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAGordon-Reed, Annette
Summary: Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 394.263 GORGordon-Reed, Annette
Summary: ""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian andTexas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.263 GORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.263 GORCooper, Floyd
Summary: Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG COOSummary: Carson Philips is a hard-drinking L.A. private eye who takes a case in his old hometown of Galveston, Texas. While searching for a missing woman, Philips must confront a crime boss, a shady doctor, a sexy club singer, his former lover, and his own dark, disturbing past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PoOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "Jack and Annie travel in the magic tree house to Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900--the day of the worst natural disaster in US history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSBGarrett, Van G.
Summary: An African American family attends a modern-day Juneteenth parade in Galveston, Texas (the birthplace of the holiday). Text includes lines from "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GARWeisgarber, Ann.
Summary: 1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In desperation she agrees to marry him. But when Catherine travels to Oscar's farm on Galveston Island, Texas - a thousand miles from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICenter, Katherine
Summary: "Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas - the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter - a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CENNichols, Peter
Summary: Nichols sails from England to Galveston, Texas, after his marriage breaks up, and shares the knowledge he gains about himself, sailing, and marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997