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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the government hired women and girls--some as young as ten--to make millions of rounds of ammunition. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up and burned beyond recognition.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The author identifies John Wilkes Booth's primary motivation for killing Abraham Lincoln as a growing commitment to white supremacy as an ideology rather than as a political loyalty to the Confederacy. Through alternate chapters, the author shows how Lincoln's increasing acceptance of emancipation and racial equality exacerbated Booth's hatred for Lincoln"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Morro Castle Ship -- Crystal Palace, London, England -- Hindenburg Airship -- Dance Hall, Natchez, Mississippi -- The Blitz, London, England -- Pearl Harbor, Hawall --S.S. Normandie -- Cocoanut Grove, Boston, Massachusetts --Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, Hartford, Connecticut -- Empire State Building, New York City -- La Salle Hotel, Chicago, Illinois -- Winecoff Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia -- Texas City, Texas -- St. Anthony's Hospital, Effingham,...
5) Trace
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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Description
Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us understand our own history? What kinds of places are worth remembering and why? In this collection of essays, some of the most esteemed historians of the Civil War select a single meaningful place related to the war and narrate its significance. Included here...
Author
Series
Andy Brazil novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
In Richmond, Virginia, Police Chief Judy Hammer is faced with corruption, scandal, and a robbery that leads to murder. Resented by the police, city manager, and mayor, Hammer is joined by her deputy chief Virginia West and Andy Brazil on the most difficult assignment of her career.
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"Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that's done looking for...
11) Bear Creek
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
When former Texas Ranger, John Everett Sage, steps off a train to stretch his legs he puts his foot into something that will change his life forever. As a witness to a cold blooded murder, John soon lands a job as a deputy town marshal. He encounters his long lost family-the travelers known as Romani. When the marshal is murdered, John is appointed as the new marshal of the town of Bear Creek, Colorado. John needs deputies, so he invites men he can...
12) The raven's tale
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe's plans to escape his foster family, begin classes at the prestigious new university, and marry his beloved Elmira Royster go awry when a macabre Muse appears with a request.
13) Spy of Richmond
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"Trust none. Risk all. Richmond, Virginia, 1863. Compelled to atone for the sins of her slaveholding father, Union loyalist Sophie Kent risks everything to help end the war from within the Confederate capital and abolish slavery forever. But she can't do it alone. Former slave Bella Jamison sacrifices her freedom to come to Richmond, where her Union soldier husband is imprisoned, and her twin sister still lives in bondage in Sophie's home. Though...
14) Haunting Rachel
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Description
Ten years after losing her fiance Tom Sheridan in a supposed plane accident, Rachel is stunned when she encounters an enigmatic stranger, bearing a startling resemblance to Tom, during a trip to Richmond, Virginia, and the mystery deepens as a series of odd "accidents" threaten her life -- Publisher summary.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
“A Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addicting read that draws you into its descent from the first page.”—Chuck Wendig, New York Times One of Vulture's Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab—again—she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes both investigator and victim when she is contacted over the Internet by a murderer who is threatening to loose a deadly virus on the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Early one August morning, seventeen-year-old computer "nerd" Duff Pringle leaves Richmond, Virginia, in a newly-acquired used car and begins an unexpectedly convoluted journey to San Jose, California, and the job that awaits him there.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 15
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Where is Lara Mayhew? Lara, a congressman's media assistant, suddenly quits her job--and disappears on the way to her Washington, DC, apartment. Novice FBI agent Meg Murray, a childhood friend of Lara's, gets a message from her that same night, a message that says she's disillusioned and "going home." To Richmond, Virginia. Meg discovers that she never got there. And bodies fitting Lara's description are showing up in nearby rivers... Could she...
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Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured,...
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