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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
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UXL
Pub. Date
2000.
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1 online resource (5 volumes) : illustrations, maps
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English
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The Colonial America Reference Library provides students with the comprehensive information on the Colonial American period they need to write reports and class assignments including biographical profiles and primary source documents.
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Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets...
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom.
From the teeming streets...
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The Sacketts volume 4
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English
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Jubal Sackett journeys westward into the vast wilderness of seventeenth-century America and discovers the perils of the frontier, a new way of life among the Indians, and the love of a beautiful Natchez Indian princess.
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House of Winslow volume 3
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English
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This wildly popular House of Winslow series traces America's history of faith to this tale of a servant girl's fight for freedom.
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House of Winslow volume 2
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English
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Gilbert Morris takes the Winslow family beyond the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth to the Salem witch trials. Book 2 from the bestselling House of Winslow series.
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"A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Mason & Dixon - like Huckleberry Finn, like Ulysses - is one of the great novels about male friendship in anybody's literature." - John Leonard, The Nation
Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running...
"Mason & Dixon - like Huckleberry Finn, like Ulysses - is one of the great novels about male friendship in anybody's literature." - John Leonard, The Nation
Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running...
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English
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Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate
...11) The lost kingdom
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On the eve of the French and Indian War, Billy Bartram and his naturalist father travel into the American wilderness in an airship--pursued by a party of French soldiers and haunted by a terrifying bear-wolf--on a quest to find the lost kingdom of the Welsh prince Madoc.
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Bone rattler mysteries volume 3
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English
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“Edgar–winner Pattison combines action, period details, and a whodunit with ease in his impressive third mystery set in Colonial America.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life on the fringes of colonial America, traveling the woodlands with his companion Conawago, even joining the old Indian...
Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life on the fringes of colonial America, traveling the woodlands with his companion Conawago, even joining the old Indian...
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Scholastic Reference
Pub. Date
[2000]
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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Re-creates early American settlements by describing in words and pictures various aspects of the colonists' lives including work, food, clothing, shelter, religion, and relationships with Native Americans.
15) The colonies
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Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2001.
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48 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.
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English
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Discusses the establishment of European settlements and colonies in North America during the 1600s, the growth of slavery, and relations with Indians.
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Williamsburg series volume 1
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The young daughter of the town drunk sets her heart on Williamsburg's new schoolmaster, recently arrived from England on the eve of the Revolutionary War.
18) The schoolmaster
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Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2010]
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Explore the life of a colonial schoolmaster and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.
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Scholastic Reference
Pub. Date
[2000]
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48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm.
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English
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Re-creates the American colonies before, during, and after the American Revolution by describing in words and pictures various aspects of the colonists' lives, including work, food, clothing, shelter, religion, the events leading to the war, and life as a soldier.
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