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1) The seekers
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Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 3
Language
English
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Returning to Boston, Abraham Kent, who had helped pacify the Indian threat on the frontier, finds himself unable to follow the path chosen for him by his controlling father and sets out on a perilous journey to the West, along with his new bride, to make his fortune.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of West of Here, a novel that chronicles a hundred-and-seventy years of American nation-building from numerous points-of-view across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises"--
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English
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""Rarely does one encounter a book that can so profoundly change a reader. Moon and the Mars is that book. Corthron, a true heir to James Baldwin, presents a startlingly original exposure of the complex roots of American racism and classism as well as a sweeping exploration of love in all its myriad forms. The best work of fiction I have read in many years." -Naomi Wallace, MacArthur "Genius" Playwriting Fellow and author of One Flea Spare Set in...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In the mid-eighteen hundreds, while serving as cook's apprentice on his uncle's schooner with his pet monkey, Allie, twelve-year-old Ray discovers that they are transporting a fugitive slave to the free north.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The author identifies John Wilkes Booth's primary motivation for killing Abraham Lincoln as a growing commitment to white supremacy as an ideology rather than as a political loyalty to the Confederacy. Through alternate chapters, the author shows how Lincoln's increasing acceptance of emancipation and racial equality exacerbated Booth's hatred for Lincoln"--
11) The Black Hills
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Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"March, 1875. Although he has never had much time for George Custer, hero of the American Civil War and Commander of the 7th Cavalry, Matthew Grand feels duty bound to respond to a call for help from his West Point contemporary. Arriving at Fort Abraham Lincoln, deep in Dakota territory, private enquiry agents Grand and Batchelor discover the fort to be a powder keg of rumour and suspicion, petty rivalries, resentments - and closely-guarded secrets....
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English
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"Upon his election as President of the troubled United States, Abraham Lincoln faced a dilemma. He knew it was time for slavery to go, but how fast could the country change without being torn apart? Many abolitionists wanted Lincoln to move quickly, overturning the founding documents along the way. But Lincoln believed there was a way to extend equality to all while keeping and living up to the Constitution that he loved so much-if only he could buy...
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Series
Daughters of the Mayflower volume 8
Publisher
Barbour Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Olivia Brighton is working in San Francisco at her brother's restaurant and determined to never, ever marry a gold miner. They're filthy, disgusting, and greedy. After losing her parents and then her husband of six weekswho turned out to be a drifter and dreamerall she wants is to live a simple life in a quiet little town. However, that can never happen in a place like this. But her brother is all the family she has left, so San Francisco will have...
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Series
Emily Dickinson mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. When she arrived late, disheveled with her skirts sodden and filthy, she'd...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a literary icon stays with the Dickinson family, Emily and her housemaid Willa find themselves embroiled in a shocking murder in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. August 1856. The Dickinson family is comfortably settled in their homestead on Main Street. Emily's brother, Austin Dickinson, and his new wife are delighted when famous thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to Amherst...
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
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