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Jubilee
by Walker, Margaret .
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The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Forever free; the story of the Emancipation Procla by Sterling, Dorothy .
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Second daughter : the story of a slave girl
by Walter, Mildred Pitts .
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In late eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Aissa, the fictional younger sister of Elizabeth Freeman, relates how her sister gains freedom for herself and her family by bringing a suit against their owner in court.
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Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters
by McKissack, Pat ; McKissack, Fredrick ; Thompson, John .
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Slaves
by Head, Tom .
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To be a slave
by Lester, Julius .
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Texas rain
by Thomas, Jodi .
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In 1854 Rainey Adams meets Texas Ranger Travis McMurray, she steals a kiss-and then his horse. Now Travis is determined to track down this intriguing woman and bring her back to the Whispering Mountain Ranch as his bride. But this renegade may be too much for even the toughest Ranger to handle.
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The gold rush
by Ketchum, Liza .
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This companion volume to the PBS television documentary The West, illustrates the event which drew thousands of people to California and its effect on the gold seekers, the Spanish settlers, and the native Indian tribes who lived there.
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by Glatstein, Jacob ; Shandler, Jeffrey .
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The righteous : the unsung heroes of the Holocaust
by Gilbert, Martin .
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940.5318 GIL
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The final journey
by Pausewang, Gudrun .
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Voices of the Holocaust
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We remember the Holocaust
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by Adler, David A .
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Greater than angels
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Matas, Carol .
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Milkweed
by Spinelli, Jerry .
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My canary yellow star
by Wiseman, Eva .
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Tell them we remember : the story of the Holocaust
by Bachrach, Susan D . -- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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940.53 BAC
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Schindler's list
by Keneally, Thomas .
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Rescue : the story of how gentiles saved Jews in the Holocaust
by Meltzer, Milton .
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The Holocaust overview
by Byers, Ann .
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940.5318 BYE
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The final solution
by Rice, Earle .
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The cage
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Sender, Ruth Minsky
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Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell .
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943.086 BAR
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The boy in the striped pajamas : a fable
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Boyne, John .
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The book thief
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Zusak, Markus .
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Days of knights and castles
by Miquel, Pierre .
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940.1 MIQ
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A pictorial history of the daily life and notable events of the Middle Ages, from 1066 through 1485.
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V is for victory : America remembers World War II
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Krull, Kathleen .
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940.53 KRU
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Beachmont letters
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Twomey, Cathleen
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In a story set in World War II, a writing assignment connects seventeen-year-old Eleanor, a girl badly burned in a fire that took the life of her father, with a soldier who becomes the only person she trusts, who helps her see beyond her scars.
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Then came heaven
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Spencer, LaVyrle .
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Set in 1950, the tale brings together a nun and a widower. St. Joseph's Church janitor Eddie Olczak and his saintly wife, Krystyna, are pillars of Browerville's Polish community; their two daughters are the favorite pupils of Sister Regina, one of the Benedictine nuns who teach at St. Joseph's school. But then Krystyna is killed when a train hits her car at a crossing. As Eddie, with the help of his large family, manages to put his life back together.
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The thought of high windows
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Kositsky, Lynne .
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Esther, a Jewish girl on the run from the Nazis, is able to deal with the horrors of the war as well as the normal agonies of teenage life with thoughts of flying out of ever-higher windows.
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The red necklace : a story of the French Revolution
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Gardner, Sally .
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: At the start of the French Revolution, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a young Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy in the villainous Count Kalliovski.
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You wouldn't want to be an aristocrat in the French Revolution! : a horrible time in Paris you'd rather avoid
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Pipe, Jim ; Antram, David .
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944.04 PIP
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Read about the fear and bloodshed of the French Revolution as many of the nobility were killed.
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Last silk dress, the
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Rinaldi, Ann .
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During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets.
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Women Civil War spies of the Confederacy
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Phillips, Larissa .
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Details the lives of six women who fought to preserve the Confederacy and the Southern way of life by serving as spies during the Civil War.
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In my father's house
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Rinaldi, Ann .
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For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their house.
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America in the Time of Abraham Lincoln
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Isaacs, Sally
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America in the time of Abraham Lincoln, the story of our nation coast to coast
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No shame, no fear
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Turnbull, Ann
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In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.
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The seventeenth century
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Taylor, Laurence ; McBride, Angus ; Hook, Richard .
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Deadly
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Chibbaro, Julie ; Superville Sovak, Jean-Marc .
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In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Typhoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.
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Rats, lice and history
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Zinsser, Hans .
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Reprint of a 1935 text, chronicling the impact of epidemics on society, tracking the origins and growth of typhus, and discussing the nature of infectious diseases, their effect on the ancient world, and their influence on political and military history.
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Operation Red Jericho
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Mowll, Joshua .
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