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Summary: Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hoping to survive his first day becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school, but Ian is determined to destroy the budding friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Summary: After Mary is struck by lightning, she is gifted with the ability to see hidden fossils. But when she finds a skeleton, she soon faces the trials of a male-dominated scientific society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: "1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chevalier 2016Chevalier, Tracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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Summary: A maid becomes a model for the 17th century Dutch painter, Vermeer. The woman, an artisan's daughter with a strong power of observation, describes his manner of work, his household and life of the day, including the rigid class system and religious bigotry. A debut in fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2000
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Summary: Bewitching art experts and enthusiasts alike for centuries, the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries hang today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. In each, an elegant lady and a unicorn stand or sit on an island of grass surrounded by a rich background of animals and flowers. Little is known about them except that they were woven toward the end of the fifteenth century and bear the coat of arms of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2004
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Summary: "It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass--but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiance, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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Summary: Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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Summary: "1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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Summary: Interweaves historical fact with fiction to explore the mystery behind the creation of the remarkable Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, woven at the end of the fifteenth century, which today hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004
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Summary: When English Quaker Honor Bright moves from England to Ohio, she finds life marred by the stain of human bondage. Risking all to help slaves escape to freedom, Honor forges a friendship with two women who inspire in her a perseverance she didn't know she was capable of.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight. Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, and in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world, Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2009
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Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Summary: "Burning bright" is a novel about the 18th-century English poet/painter William Blake and the children who sparked his "Songs of innocence" and "Songs of experience." In March of 1792, young Jem Kellaway and his family move from their small rural village in the Piddle Valley to the bustling city of London. Jem's father, a chairmaker, has agreed to hire on as a carpenter with Astley's Circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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Summary: "Burning bright" is a novel about the 18th-century English poet/painter William Blake and the children who sparked his "Songs of innocence" and "Songs of experience." In March of 1792, young Jem Kellaway and his family move from their small rural village in the Piddle Valley to the bustling city of London. Jem's father, a chairmaker, has agreed to hire on as a carpenter with Astley's Circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Summary: Marked for greatness after being struck by lightning in infancy, Mary Anning discovers a fossilized skeleton near her 19th century home that triggers attacks on her character and upheavals throughout the religious, scientific, and academic communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Growing up fascinated with the fossils she collected on the beach, Mary Anning blossomed into a skillful amateur archaeologist. When she discovers an intriguing fossilized skeleton, townspeople and religious authorities react viciously. Barred from the scientific community and in love with an unavailable man, Mary turns to Elizabeth Philpot, a London exile, for friendship. Together, they look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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Summary: After Mary is struck by lightning, she is gifted with the ability to see hidden fossils. But when she finds a skeleton, she soon faces the trials of a male-dominated scientific society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Chevalier 2010Summary: Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by eleven international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015