Gwyn, Aaron

Summary: "1827. Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live and love as he pleases. That same year, Cecelia, a young slave in Virginia, runs away for the first time. Soon infamous for her escape attempts, Cecelia drifts through the reality of slavery until she encounters frontiersman Sam Fisk, who rescues...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWY

Hambly, Barbara

Summary: "New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs Russell is adamant Eve's been...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

Dray, Stephanie

Summary: "Tells the story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Tells not just as the wronged wife at the center of a political sex scandal-- but also as a founding mother who shaped an American legacy in her own right"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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Dray, Stephanie

Summary: A fictional retelling of the life of Eliza Hamilton describes her passionate dedication to America's independence, her unlikely marriage to penniless but brilliant officer Alexander Hamilton, and the turmoil and tragedies that challenged her legacy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Tinti, Hannah.

Summary: Twelve year-old Ren is missing his left hand. How it was lost is a mystery that Ren has been trying to solve for his entire life, as well as who his parents are, and why he was abandoned as an infant at Saint Anthony $1 (Bs Orphanage for boys. He longs for a family to call his own and is terrified of the day he will be sent alone into the world. But then a young man named Benjamin Nab...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TIN