Sutcliff , Rosemary |  | On Order | Sword Song is the swashbuckling epic of a young Viking swordsman, banished from his home for unintentionally killing a man, who takes up a new life as a mercenary. | -
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First facts about the Vikings
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Morley, Jacqueline ; Bergin, Mark ; Salariya, David
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| | Cadnum, Michael |  | On order | On his first Viking raid, seventeen-year-old Lidsmod sails on the ship Raven, joining his comrades as they destroy and plunder villages in medieval England and take an Anglo-Saxon boy as captive. | -
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Viking warrior, The
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Windrow, Martin .
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Daughter of the Wind | Cadnum, MIchael |  | On order | In medieval times as various groups of Vikings fight for supremacy of the northern lands and waters, Hallgerd, Gauk, and Hego, three young people from the quiet coastal village of Spjothof, find their fates intertwined as a series of events take them into danger far from home. | -
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The Vikings
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by Grant, Neil .
|  | 948 GRA | Describes many aspects of Viking life including their farms, religion, ships and navigation, wars and conquest, trade, towns, home life, arts and poetry, crafts, and kings and empires. | -
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The last kingdom : a novel
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by Cornwell, Bernard .
|  | FIC COR | In the middle years of the ninth century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until only one realm remained. Suddenly the fate of all England--and the course of history--depended upon one man, one king. | -
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Going to war in Viking times
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Gravett, Christopher ; Bergin, Mark .
|  | 355.008 GRA | Examines how these bold Scandinavians lived and fought together in lands stretching from the Volga in Russia to the east coast of North America. With full-colour illustrations and fact-filled text, you can find out what life was really like for a warrior. - | -
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The illustrated history of the housewife, 1650-1950
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Robertson, Una A.
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Who are the housewives? -- Fuels and fireplaces -- Lighting the home -- Water and drainage -- The workforce -- Cleaning: methods and mixtures -- Laundrywork -- The means of cooking -- Provisioning the household -- Storage and preservation of food -- Meals and mealtimes -- Drinks -- Pastimes and pleasures around the home -- Pastimes and pleasures outside the home -- The housewife in the wider world.
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Hummingbird
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Spencer, LaVyrle.
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A western historical romance featuring a bad boy hero and a prim spinster who bicker and fight and fight and bicker and finally become friends and lovers.
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Gettysburg, a battlefield atlas
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Symonds, Craig L.
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Provides a narrative history and cartographic display of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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The Killer Angels
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Shaara, Michael.
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Portraits of Lee, Longstreet, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at Gettysburg
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Hurricane Katrina : aftermath of disaster
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Palser, Barb.
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Shelter of last resort -- Gambling against nature -- Landfall -- Days of chaos -- Help at last -- No place like home -- Tragedy's toll -- Rebirth
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Hurricane song
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Volponi, Paul.
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Twelve-year-old Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New Orleans, and together they survive the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, learning about each other and growing closer through their painful experiences.
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The Shakeress
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Heuston, Kimberley Burton,
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While searching for her true self and for the way to meet the needs of her personal sense of spirituality, an orphaned teenaged girl joins a Shaker community in mid-nineteenth century New England and learns about a new religion called Mormonism.
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The people called Shakers; a search for the perfect society
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Andrews, Edward Deming
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The Shakers
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Williams, Jean Kinney
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Examines the history, beliefs, way of life, and current status of this humble and devout Christian group.
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A part of the sky
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Peck, Robert Newton .
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The long-awaited sequel to the classic A Day No Pigs Would Die, this poignant and earthily poetic book reintroduces readers to Rob, the Shaker boy living on the hardscrabble farm in Vermont during the early year of the Depression, who is now in sole charge of his motley household, following the death of his father.
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Dante's daughter
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Heuston, Kimberley Burton .
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In fourteenth-century Italy, Antonia, the daughter of Dante Alighieri, longs for a stable family and home while developing her artistic talent and seeking a place for herself in a world with limited options for women.
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A Florentine merchant
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Caselli, Giovanni
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Presents a story of a rich merchant, Francesco Datini, and his household in northern Italy in the late fourteenth century, seen from the viewpoint of a slave, depicting the merchant's life in the town of Prato and his work in nearby Florence.
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Witch child
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Rees, Celia.
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In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
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The Salem witch trials
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Nardo, Don,
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Salem on the eve of the witch trials -- Strange behaviors diagnosed as witchcraft -- The first accused witches are questioned -- The infamous witch trials begin -- Salem in the grip of mass hysteria -- Too many witches : the trials end.
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Witch of Blackbird Pond, The
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Speare, Elizabeth George .
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