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American Civil War (1861-1865) Art criticism Demonstrations Washington (D.C.) Fiction Emigration and immigration in art First-wave feminism United States Fiction Suffragists United States Fiction United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction Women Political activity United States Fiction Women's rights United States FictionOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: Cannon fire! That's what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journey in time yet--and the one that will make the most difference to their own lives!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Shaara, Jeff
Summary: The Civil War did not end quietly. It climaxed in a storm of fury that lay waste to everything in its path. The Fateful Lightning brings to life those final brutal, bloody months of fighting with you-are-there immediacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAGingrich, Newt.
Summary: Newt Gingrich, former Congressman and student of Civil War history, has written an astounding book giving us an alternate history of the Civil War. On July 10th, 1863, Baltimore is in the hands of the Army of Northern Virginia under the command of Robert E. Lee. Shattered remnants of the defeated Army of the Potomac have fallen back into Washington. Six days earlier, General Ulysses S. Grant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Amrie St. Pierre is catching tadpoles with her friend Finn O'Reilly when the Federal fleet first steams up the Mississippi River in the spring of 1862. With the surrender of New Orleans, Amrie's sleepy little village of St. Francisville-strategically located between the last river outposts of Vicksburg and Port Hudson-is now frighteningly vulnerable. As the roar of canons inches...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARIreland, Justina
Summary: "Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- derailing the War between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Negro and Native Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC IREMiller, Linda Lael
Summary: This is the story of Caroline, the young wife and childhood sweetheart of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter, Rachel, just outside of Gettysburg. When Jacob joins the Northern army to do his duty and help save the Union, no one anticipates he will not return. Caroline gets news that he is wounded and has been taken to Washington, DC, with his regiment, and so she must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MILWalter, Jon
Summary: Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WALBurke, James Lee
Summary: In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BURShaara, Jeff
Summary: Continuing the trilogy that began with A Blaze of Glory, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted "Gibraltar of the Confederacy", a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAKelly, Martha Hall
Summary: "Georgeanna "Georgy" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her status. So when war ignites the nation, Georgy follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, Georgy and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KELBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: "As the North reels under a series of defeats during the first years of the Civil War, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will change his marriage and challenge his ardently held beliefs"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BroMelman, Peter Charles
Summary: In the summer of 1853, in Lafayette City, Louisiana, 11-year-old Elias Abrams loses his mother to yellow fever. Grief-stricken and alone, he becomes embroiled in the street life of New Orleans. After Elias is falsely accused of a crime, and in order to escape arrest, he enlists in the Third Louisiana Regiment, where 3,000 other Jews will ultimately fight for the Confederacy. Before long,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MELWeller, Lance.
Summary: Civil War veteran Abel Truman, now elderly and disabled, endures a solitary existence in a driftwood shack on the Pacific Coast before undertaking one last hike through the Olympic Mountains, a journey during which he reflects on the war's savagery and the people who touched his life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WELFrazier, Charles
Summary: After marrying a Mississippi landowner in hopes of living a life of security, Varina Howell finds her expectations upended when her husband is appointed as the leader of the Confederacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAGarcia, Kami.
Summary: Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARShaara, Michael.
Summary: This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is the finest historical dramatization of the Civil War. The book centers around the key battle of the war: the battle of Gettysburg. In July of 1863, the Confederate Army, led by General Robert E. Lee, invaded the North, in order to deal a fatal blow to the Union Army. Lee's right hand man was the loyal General Longstreet. Opposing them was General George...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHAMin, Anchee
Summary: Late 19th-century China is a tumultuous land beset by warring enemies--both from beyond its borders and within the fabled walls of the Forbidden City. When her son and adopted son each succumb to early deaths, Orchid reluctantly assumes greater power. While foreign nations like Japan, Russia, France, and England fight for their share of the Chinese spoils, Orchid sees her nation divide into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Summary: Winter 1461--Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Yet in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IGGMcLain, Paula
Summary: After meeting and falling in love while she covered the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, Martha Gellhorn is forced to choose between her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her career as a war correspondent.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Fervent abolitionism rules the day in 1862 Water's Ford, Pennsylvania. So when the local men answer Mr. Lincoln's call to arms, wives are left behind to keep the town functioning. Fortunately, the ladies of Elm Creek Valley have an ingenious plan.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Chiaverini 2011Chiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. On March 3, 1913, a glorious march commences, but negligent police allow vast crowds of belligerent men to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHIMorgan, Robert
Summary: Fleeing the South Carolina plantation where he has spent his entire life, eighteen-year-old slave Jonah Williams uses the stars to escape to the North and is pursued by both slave hunters and a free-spirited fellow slave who believes Jonah can help her secure her own freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOREggers, Dave
Summary: In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 974.71 Eggers 2018Harris, Nathan
Summary: "In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry--freed by the Emancipation Proclamation--seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021