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Summary: After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2019

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2019

Summary: "Head to Colonial Connecticut where unexpected adventure catches the Ingersoll brothers by surprise - and brings unexpected love into their lives. Nathaniel has his sights set on becoming a master figurehead carver, until he risks everything for a woman. Jonathan's merchant trade and his new love are in jeopardy from a brother's animosity. Micah expects to settle down to peace after a life of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COL

Pynchon, Thomas.

Summary: The lives of two 18th century British astronomers who surveyed the boundary which settled a dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was later extended to become the boundary between free and slave states, the Mason-Dixon line. The novel describes their work in Africa and America, and traces their relationship. By the author of Vineland.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYN

L'Amour, Louis

Summary: Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail, the Sackett saga is an unforgettable achievement by one of America's greatest storytellers. In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of this great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Kindred spirits on a restless quest... Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1985

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Western L'Amour 1985

Bittner, Rosanne

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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIT

Buckley, Christopher

Summary: "London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The men who conspired to kill his father are either dead or disappeared. Baltasar 'Balty' St. Michel is twenty-four and has no skills and no employment. He gets by on handouts from his brother-in-law Samuel Pepys, an officer in the king's navy. Fed up with his needy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUC

Quinn, Julia

Summary: "While you were sleeping... With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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Follett, Ken.

Summary: In 18th Century Scotland, Mack MacAsh, a rebellious youth who tried to escape from a slave mine, is caught and deported in chains to America. On the same boat is the mine owner's son, travelling to his plantation in Virginia, and with him is his fiancee, Lizzie Hallim, who helped MacAsh escape. She and MacAsh will meet again and love will bloom.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Crest 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOL

Cooper, James Fenimore

Contents: v. 1. The pioneers, or The sources of the Susquehanna; a descriptive tale. The last of the Mohicans; a narrative of 1757. The prairie; a tale -- v. 2. The pathfinder, or The inland sea. The deerslayer, or The first war-path.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1985

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COO

Cooper, James Fenimore

Contents: v. 1. The pioneers, or The sources of the Susquehanna. The last of the Mohicans. The prairie -- v. 2. The pathfinder, or The inland sea. The deerslayer, or The first war-path.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1985

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COO

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