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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli-like so many of her neighbors-must make an agonizing choice: fight...
2) Palmares
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
492 pages ; 24 cm
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Palmares recounts the journey of Almeyda, a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares. Following its destruction, Almeyda embarks on a journey across colonial Brazil to find her husband, lost in battle.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Cravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.
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Rome escape line trilogy volume 1
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In German-occupied Rome during World War II, as diplomats, refugees and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, a small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest risk everything, including their lives, to help thoseseeking refuge.
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Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm
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"Two young friends are separated by unspeakable tragedy during the Greek Civil War, haunted by a vow to return to one another and their home on the island of Corfu where queens, villagers, and goddesses come together to prove there is no force more powerful than the magic of a mother's love"--
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Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo ?rbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration that ?rbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti"--
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2018.
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Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
10) Mrs. England
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Pub. Date
2022.
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In a house full of secrets, the nanny hides her own. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Distant...
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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
13) Number the stars
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Demark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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Sarah Gilchrist series volume 1
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Despite numerous barriers, Sarah Gilchrist is determined to become a doctor in 1882, the first year the University of Edinburgh admitted women, but is drawn into a murder mystery when a former acquaintance turns up as a corpse in the dissecting room.
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Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
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A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
448 pages ; cm
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"With the threat of Mussolini?s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Aster?s household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie?s army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals...
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Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
365 pages
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A 300-year-old legend. Fathoms below. And the search might kill them all... Days and nights in unforgiving seas. Stuck aboard a rundown trawler. Two crew he can't control. And a despicable owner that doesn't care to know their names. Not where Jed thought he'd be. But on the final turn, everything changes. Artifacts spill to the deck. Lost for centuries. An adventure from the Caribbean to the Cape unfolds. Relics linking to an astonishing, unfinished...
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"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse:...
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I survived volume 12
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A young boy struggles to survive during the 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
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