Search Results: Returned 9 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 9
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2011., Viking Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Bethia Mayfield befriends Caleb, the son of a Wampanoag chieftain, as she grows up near Martha's Vineyard in the mid-seventeenth century, and watches as her minister father attempts to convert the Native Americans, but the fates of the children are tied together as Bethia's father encourages the education of Caleb, a privilege Bethia has always wished for, and the two are reunited in Cambridge.
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2012., Penguin Books Call No: Historical FIC Brooks Genre: Historical Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Growing up in the island settlement of Great Harbor, Bethia Mayfield meets a young Native American named Caleb and the two form a strong friendship. Years later, as the ways of Bethia's fellow settlers begin to contrast with those of the native Wampanoag, Caleb enrolls at Harvard while Bethia becomes entangled in his struggle to bridge the cultural and intellectual divides between their people.
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2006., Penguin Books Call No: Historical FIC Brooks Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A novel which imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the father of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women." Despite his cheerful letters home while serving in the Union army, he becomes appalled by the cruelties he witnesses, which challenge his beliefs and change his outlook on humanity.
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2008., Viking Call No: 823 .914 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Rare book expert Hanna Heath discovers a number of tiny artifacts hidden within the binding of a fifteenth-century Hebrew manuscript and begins to unravel the mysteries behind its past.
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2008., Penguin Books Call No: Historical FIC Brooks Genre: Historical Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Hanna Heath, a rare book expert, is offered to analyze and conserve a rare Hebrew manuscript from the fifteenth century, she soon discovers small artifacts in the book's binding that unlock the mysteries behind the book's creation and those who wrote it.
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2002, c2001., Penguin Books Call No: Historical FIC Brooks Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Anna Frith attends to plague victims and is astonished at the changes brought to her small village when disease becomes rampant.