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The great divide [text (large print)] : a novel / by Henríquez, Cristina,1977-author.;
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Barbadians; Cultural pluralism; Fathers and sons; Malaria; Scientists; Teenage girls;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A place to belong / by Kadohata, Cynthia.; Kuo, Julia.;
Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.Ages 10-14.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Japanese Americans; Emigration and immigration; Families; Belonging (Social psychology); Identity (Psychology); World War, 1939-1945;
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Two wars and a wedding [text (large print)] : a novel / by Willig, Lauren,author.;
"From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes a dramatic coming of age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine--a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Female friendship; Greco-Turkish War, 1897; Man-woman relationships; Nurses; Spanish-American War, 1898; Women college graduates;
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After the bloom / by Shimotakahara, Leslie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Rita Takemitsu is a newly single mother raising her daughter in 1980s Toronto. When her mother, Lily, goes missing, Rita sets out to find her. In the course of her quest, Rita uncovers a host of secrets surrounding her mother's internment at a camp in the California desert during the Second World War and the truth about her mysterious father."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Japanese Americans; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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The queen of Sugar Hill : a novel of Hattie McDaniel / by Billingsley, ReShonda Tate,author.;
The first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, Hattie McDaniel, when the Oscar curse sets in, is thrust in the middle of two worlds--black and white--and is not welcomed in either but, through it all, continued her fight to pave a path for other Negro actors.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; McDaniel, Hattie, 1895-1952; Gone with the wind (Motion picture : 1939); Academy Awards (Motion pictures); African American motion picture actors and actresses;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Island queen : a novel / by Riley, Vanessa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas. Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Monserrat, Doll bought her freedom--and that of her sister and her mother--from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Slavery; Freedmen; Businesswomen; Man-woman relationships;
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Kaya rides to the rescue / by Berne, Emma Carlson,1979-; Shaw, Janet Beeler,1937-;
"Kaya is a Nez Perce girl who takes pride in helping out and supporting the tribe<U+2014>and also in her beloved horse, Steps High. But when she chooses racing her horse over family responsibilities, Kaya has to prove herself to earn her tribe's respect."--Barnes & Noble.Grades 1-3.LSC
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Girls; Families; Horses; Indigenous peoples; Nez Percé Indians; Indians of North America; Nez Percé; First Nations;
© [2022], Random House,
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The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel / by Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne,1967-author.;
The 2020 National Book Awardnominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic - an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of 'Homegoing', 'Sing, Unburied, Sing', and 'The Water Dancer' - that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. A Dewey Diva Pick. #OwnVoices.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; African American women; African American families; African Americans; Identity (Psychology);
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The story collector / by Woods, Evie,author.;
One hundred years ago, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English. But all is not as it seems and Anna soon finds herself at the heart of a mystery that threatens her very way of life. In present day New York, Sarah Harper boards a plane bound for the West Coast of Ireland. But once there, she finds she has unearthed dark secrets that tread the line between the everyday and the otherworldly, the seen and the unseen.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Secrecy; Tales; Women;
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Polostan / by Stephenson, Neal,author.;
"Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Military fiction.; Novels.; Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.); Communists; Depressions; Disasters; Nuclear physics; Women spies;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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