Search Results: Returned 16 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 16
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-- Nineteenth wife2009., Random House Trade Paperbacks Call No: Historical Fic Ebershoff Edition: 2009 Random House trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: The story of Ann Eliza Young's crusade against polygamy interwines with a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah.
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2012., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Historical FIC Sharenow Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Genre: Historical Availability:5 of 6 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never been in a synagogue or practiced religion, but to everyone around him he is a Jew. Longing to prove his worth, he starts taking boxing lessons from champion boxer and German national hero Max Schmeling. As a skilled cartoonist, he's never before had an interest in boxing, but as Max's apprentice, Karl finds both his boxing skills and art flourishing. When Nazi violence against the Jews heightens, he must balance his dream of becoming a great boxer with his obligation to protect his family.
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2014., Penguin Books Call No: Sports 797.12 Bro Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Explores the history of the American eight-man rowing team that went to the Berlin Olympics in 1936--a group of west coast boys with little to no experience in rowing--discussing the great odds they faced in becoming chosen to represent their country over east coast teams, and the personal challenges each one of them faced during the Great Depression.
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By Gould, Sashac2011., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Mystery FIC Gould Book 1 Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Laura della Scala's older sister drowns, Laura leaves the shelter of the convent where she has spent the last six years and enters the upper echelons of sixteenth-century Venetian society, while she searches for the truth about what happened to her sister.
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[2014]., Adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Historical FIC Lucier Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the Spanish influenza epidemic reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918, seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves behind the comfort of her boarding school to work for the Red Cross.
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By Alcott, Kate[2013]., Anchor Books Call No: Historical FIC Alcott Edition: First Anchor Books edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After surviving the sinking of the Titanic, Tess arrives in New York and becomes privy to the investigation into the event. When Lady Lucile Duff Gordon, who hired Tess to be a personal maid on the ship, is accused of saving herself at the expense of others, Tess becomes torn between her loyalty to Gordon and a revelation of what really happened onboard the ship.
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[2014]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical FIC Agosin Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear.".
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c2011., Adolescent, Razorbill Call No: Historical FIC Ostlere Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On the day that Maya and her father arrive in India from Canada to bring her mother's ashes to their final resting place, Indira Gandhi is assassinated. In the chaos Maya loses her father and she must trust a young man, Sandeep, to help her find her father.
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2015., Riverhead Books Call No: Historical Fic Yanique Edition: Riverhead trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Two beautiful and passionate sisters, Eeona and Anette, struggle to make their way in the U.S. Virgin Islands amid the impact of global conflicts and American racism.
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2015., Pre-adolescent, Tundra Books Call No: Historical FIC Johnston Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Rachel's brother Jamie has just returned from World War II and is struggling to adjust to life when he contracts an illness. Then Rachel's mom has a baby which adds to the tension around home. Feeling ignored, Rachel turns to her teacher for attention; but soon Rachel is forced to face her shattered family and discover what's really important in life.
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[2015]., Anchor Books Call No: Realistic 362.88 Kra Edition: First Anchor Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Examines a series of sexual assaults that took place in Missoula Montana between 2010 and 2012, with focus on the experiences of the victims, the lack of an appropriate response by law enforcement, and the backlash the victims faced from some members of the university community and the city. Also discusses the prevalence of rape and the ineffective systems in place for investigating rapes and prosecuting rapists.
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[2015], Adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: B Ellsberg Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Highlights seven years in Danile Ellsberg's life when he went from being a trusted government insider to being declared "the most dangerous man in America." Examines the events surrounding Ellsberg's exposure of the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000-page document that uncovered the secret history of the Vietnam War that would forever change the relationship between American citizens and the government officials they put their faith in to represent their interests.
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2009, c2008., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: Historical FIC Jordan Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.
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2008., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Historical FIC Anderson Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation Volume: v. 1Summary Note: Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
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[2015]., Dutton Call No: Realistic FIC Renehan Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A deskbound administrative officer named Black is sent up the "Valley," a nameless place where a remote, nearly forgotten American platoon recently fired an unexplained warning shot. Black's investigation leads him to knowledge of a centuries-old arrangement that keeps the local Afghan population in balance, which recent military action threatens to undo.
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Ã2013., Riverhead Books Call No: Historical FIC DiSclafani Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: It is 1930, and after a family tragedy fifteen-year-old Thea Atwell is cast out of her beloved Florida home to the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls. Having to learn to fend for herself, Thea begins discovering her sexuality and what it means to be an adult. Over everything looms the coming Great Depression, and Thea's hopes for her future.
