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One last shot : the story of wartime photographer Gerda Taro2023
Summary: The daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Gerta Pohorylle doesn't quite fit in with her German classmates. While she's away at boarding school, however, she becomes a master at re-inventing herself... more »- place hold (0)
added 8 months ago
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Ethel's song : Ethel Rosenberg's life in poems2022
Summary: The child of Jewish immigrants, Ethel Greenglass grows up on New York City's Lower East Side; she dreams of being an actress and a singer but finds romance and excitement in the arms of the charming... more »- place hold (0)
added 2 years ago
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The snow fell three graves deep : voices from the Donner party2020
Summary: In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a shortcut into the wilderness. Eighty-nine of them opt for the untested trail, a decision... more »- place hold (0)
added 3 years ago
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Voices : the final hours of Joan of Arc2019
Summary: "David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death in a fiery, evocative novel-in-verse." --- place hold (0)
added 4 years ago
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White Rose2019
Summary: Disillusioned by the propaganda of Nazi Germany, Sophie Scholl, her brother, and his fellow soldiers formed the White Rose. A non-violent resistance group, they write and distribute anonymous letters... more »- place hold (0)
added 5 years ago
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The raven's tale2019
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe's plans to escape his foster family, begin classes at the prestigious new university, and marry his beloved Elmira Royster go awry when a macabre Muse appears with a request.- place hold (0)
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Prisoner B-30872013
Summary: Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.- place hold (0)
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Go ask Alice1971
Summary: A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.- place hold (0)
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Hamilton and Peggy! : a revolutionary friendship2018
Summary: In the throes of the Revolutionary War, Peggy Schuyler finds herself a central figure amid Loyalists and Patriots, spies and traitors, friends and family. Among those friends, she develops a... more »- place hold (0)
added 6 years ago
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Fatal throne : the wives of Henry VIII tell all2018
Summary: King Henry VIII was a charismatic and extravagant ruler obsessed with both his power as king and with siring a male heir. Six women became his queens, several fated for divorce, or beheading. In this... more »- place hold (0)
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My name is Victoria2018
Summary: "'You are my sister now,' Victoria said, quietly and solemnly. 'Never forget it. I love you like a sister, and you are my only friend in all the world.' Miss V. Conroy is good at keeping secrets. She... more »- place hold (0)
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The librarian of Auschwitz2017
Summary: Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.- place hold (0)
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River of fire2018
Summary: A shadow has fallen across the warrior Clans. One long-lost Clan has returned to its rightful place, but another has disbanded -- perhaps forever. As StarClan warns of a storm on the horizon,... more »- place hold (0)
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Soldier boy2017
Summary: Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about... more »- place hold (0)
added 7 years ago
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X : a novel2015
Summary: Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's a pack of lies -- after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away,... more »- place hold (0)
added 8 years ago
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Anastasia and her sisters2014
Summary: A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.- place hold (0)
added 9 years ago
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Torn2011
Summary: Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and... more »- place hold (0)
added 12 years ago
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The wild queen : the days and nights of Mary, Queen of Scots2012
Summary: Convicted of plotting against her cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England and awaiting execution in 1587, Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland, recounts her life story, including becoming a widow at age... more »- place hold (0)
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Caught2012
Summary: When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.- place hold (0)
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