WORLD HISTORY NOVELS
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Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart. New York, : McDowell, Obolensky, [1959]. Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming of the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways.
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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. Little women. Grosset, 1947. The classic story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in nineteenth-century New England.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Emma. New York : New American Library, 1964. This novel of Regency England centers upon a
self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Pride and prejudice. Macmillan, 1962. In early nineteenth-century England, Elizabeth Bennet falls in love with Darcy, but obstacles are in their way--her prejudice and his pride.
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Baer, Edith. Walk the dark streets. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Continues the story of Eva, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi Germany where she and her parents experience increasing tensions in daily life while considering possibilities of escape.
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Ballard, J. G., 1930-. Empire of the Sun : a novel. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1984. Jim, an eleven-year-old British schoolboy, lives in Shanghai in 1941. He relates his experiences which include three years spent in Lunghus, a Japanese prison camp, before being reunited with his parents and returning to England.
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Barrett, Tracy, 1955-. Anna of Byzantium. New York : Delacorte Press, 1999. In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy.
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Benson, Ann. The plague tales. New York : Delacorte Press,
c1997. Tells the parallel stories of Alejandro Canches, a fourteenth-century physician who is conscripted against his will to serve as a plague doctor in the court of Edward III, and Janie Crowe, an American medical archaeologist who unwittingly releases the bubonic plague upon the world in 2005.
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Booth, Martin. War dog. After her owner is arrested while poaching, Jet, a black labrador retriever, is requisitioned by the British Army. She sees duty on the beach at Dunkirk, searches for survivors of Germany’s bombing raids on English cities, and works in Italy at the end of the war.
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Bosse, Malcolm J. (Malcolm Joseph). The examination. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1994. 15-year-old Hong and his older brother face famine, flood, pirates, and jealous rivals on their journey through 15th century China.
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Bradford, Karleen. There will be wolves. Ursula, condemned as a witch because of her knowledge of healing, escapes being burned to death when she joins her father and thousands of others who follow Peter the Hermit on the first Crusade from Cologne to Jerusalem in 1096.
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Bradshaw, Gillian, 1956-. Island of ghosts : Gillian Bradshaw. 1st ed. New York : Forge, 1998. Explores the clash of
cultures that arose as Roman conquerors swept Europe in the second century.
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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. The good earth. New York, N.Y. : Pocket Books, c1994. A graphic view of China when the last emperor reigned, and the vast political and social upheavals of the the 20th century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people.
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Bunting, Eve, 1928-. SOS Titanic. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1996. Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink.
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Cadnum, Michael. In a dark wood. New York : Orchard Books c1998. On orders from the King, the Sheriff of Nottingham seeks to capture the outlaw Robin Hood, but he finds him to be a tricky and elusive foe.
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Carter, Peter. The hunted. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994, c1993. In 1943 Corporal Vito Salvani finds himself and an orphaned Jewish boy trapped in enemy territory in France during World War II.
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote de la Mancha. 1998 Modern Library ed. New York : Modern Library, [1998]. The epic tale of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in sixteenth-century Spain.
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Cormier, Robert. Heroes : a novel. New York : Delacorte Press, 1998. After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a World War II battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown hoping to find--and kill—the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.
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Dana, Barbara. Young Joan : a novel. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1997. Joan, a girl growing up in the French countryside during the Hundred Years' War, begins to hear voices telling her she is destined to reunite her torn country in opposition to the English invaders. A fictionalized story of Joan of Arc.
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Davenport, Kiana. Song of the exile. Keo and Sunny meet in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the last days before Pearl harbor and find themselves separated and searching for each other during World War II.
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Davis, Lindsey. Last act in Palmyra. While tracking down a runaway circus musician, Falco and his mistress are unjustly accused of a murder and join a traveling theater group to avoid arrest, unaware that the real killer is a member of the group and is looking to kill again. A detective story from the Roman Empire.
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Davis, Lindsey. Poseidon’s gold. Imperial Roman spy Falco has three days to clear his family name and prove he is not a murderer.
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Davis, Lindsey. Shadows in bronze. Ancient Rome’s favorite son and sometimes palace spy, Falco returns to aid the Emperor Vespasian himself.
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Davis, Lindsey. The silver pigs. Marcus Falco, a private detective in Ancient Rome, hopes to upgrade his social life when a senator asks him to uncover a plot against his niece. Instead, he finds treachery and conspiracy at the highest levels.
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Davis, Lindsey. Three hands in the fountain. In the times of Ancient Rome, Marcus Didius Falco and his new partner investigate the gruesome discovery of female hands being found in the Roman aqueducts.
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Davis, Lindsey. Venus in copper. Imperial Rome’s private investigator Marcus Falco takes on a case involving the murder of a wealthy real estate developer.
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Diamant, Anita. The red tent / Anita Diamant. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoil of womanhood in biblical times.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. A Christmas carol. Philadelphia, : Lippincott Co., [1964]. In eighteenth-century England, a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. David Copperfield. A limited ed. Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin Library, 1976. David runs away to his great-aunt after his stepfather sends him away to work in a warehouse in eighteenth-century England.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Great expectations. New York: New American Library, 1980. An unknown person has provided money for the education of a poor English boy in eighteenth-century England.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Hard times, for these times. New York : New American Library, [1980]. Presents a relentless indictment against the callous greed of the Victorian England’s industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Oliver Twist. London : Dent, 1907. A boy from an English workhouse falls into the hands of rogues who train him to be a pickpocket. He must struggle to overcome this environment of crime.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. A tale of two cities. Grosset, 1948. The classic novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Our mutual friend. New York : Modern Library, 1992. A satiric masterpiece about money, young John Harmon, believed to have been killed on his way back to nineteenth-century England, secretly works under an assumed name for the heirs to his father’s fortune.
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Durbin, William, 1951-. The broken blade. New York : Delacorte
Press, 1997. When an injury prevents his father from going
into northern Canada with fur traders, thirteen-year-old
Pierre decides to take his father's place as a voyageur.
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Durbin, William, 1951-. Wintering. New York : Delacorte Press,
c1999. In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work
for the North West Fur Company and makes the long and
difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns from
both the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose
land they share.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880. The mill on the floss. New York : New American Library, [c1981?]. In 19th century England, young Maggie Tulliver's loyalty to her beloved older brother, Tom, and to the rest of her family is fatally torn when she falls in love with the son of her father's bitterest enemy.
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Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong: a novel of love and war. Rootless and heartbroken, Stephen Wraysford joins the army at the outbreak of World War I He and his men are given the assignment to tunnel under the German lines and set off bombs. The camaraderie, love, and loyalty of the soldiers contrasts with the horrors of the underground, air, and trench warfare.
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Fink, Ida. Traces : stories. 1st American ed. New York Metropolitan Books, 1997. A portrait of life in occupied Poland, and of men and women otherwise buried in the anonymous statistics of war and genocide.
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Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary;. New York, : Random House, [1957]. The complete and unabridged story of Emma Bovary, the 19th century wife of a French provincial doctor, whose desires and illusions are shattered when reality catches up with her.
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Fletcher, Susan, 1951-. Shadow spinner. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1998. When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life.
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Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970. A passage to India.
London, : J. M. Dent & sons ltd., [1942]. A classic account of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century revealing the menace lurking just under the surface of ordinary misunderstanding.
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966. Admiral Hornblower in
the West Indies. Boston : Little, Brown, [1989]. As
commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the
West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates,
revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic
aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966. Flying colours.
Boston : Little, Brown, [1986], c1962. The seventh volume
in the Hornblower series opens with Horatio Hornblower a
prisoner in the French fortress of Rosas, having had to
surrender his ship after a long and bloody battle.
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966. Hornblower and the
Atropos. Boston : Little, Brown, [1985], c1953. Recounts
the early years of Horatio Hornblower's British captaincy, in which the young hero is stretched to the utmost by adventures at home and in the Mediterranean.
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966. Hornblower and the
Hotspur. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., c1990. After
only one night with his bride, Hornblower, as commander of
the frigate Hotspur, sails for duty off the French Coast to
keep Napoleon from invading England.
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966. Lieutenant Hornblower.
Boston : Back Bay books, c1980. Relates Horatio's
adventures as a Lieutenant until his promotion to Commander
during the early years of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966. Lord Hornblower.
Boston : Little, Brown, [1989]. As his naval battles with
Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he
knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966. Mr. Midshipman
Hornblower. Boston : Little Brown, c1978. Describes how
Horatio Hornblower rose from Midshipman to Lieutenant in His
Majesty's Navy in the times of Napoleon.
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966. Ship of the line.
Boston : Little, Brown, 1985, c1938. The sixth installment
in the series, the indomitable captain is in the gravest
danger of his career in the Royal British Navy.
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966. Commodore Hornblower.
Boston : Little, Brown, [1986], c1962. In this eighth
volume, Hornblower, recently knighted and settled in as
squire of the village of Smallbridge, has been designated
commodore of his own squadron of ships bound for the Baltic.
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Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966. Hornblower during the
crisis. Boston : Little, Brown, [1985], c1962. On the
threshold of securing his first post as captain of the royal British Navy, Hornblower finds himself forced by the exigencies of war to fight alongside a man whom he has unintentionally helped to court-martial.
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Friedman, Carl. Nightfather. 1st ed. New York : Persea Books,
c1994. A father tells his children about his life in a Nazi
concentration camp.
FIC Gab
Gabaldon, Diata. Outlander. While on vacation in Scotland, Clare touches an ancient stone circle and is hurled back in time 200 years, to 1743 where she finds a man to love.
FIC Gab
Gabaldon, Diana. Drums of autumn. New York : Delacorte Press,
1997. Continues the saga of Claire and Jamie Fraser that
began in Outlander. In this sequel, they set off for new
beginning among the exile Scottish Highlanders in the Cape
Fear area of the Virginia Colony.
FIC Gar
Garden, Nancy. Dove and sword : a novel of Joan of Arc. New
York : Scholastic, 1995. In 1455 in France, Gabrielle is
visited by Pierre d'Arc, a brother of Joan of Arc, and with
him reminisces about their childhood together in Domremy and
Joan's subsequent trial and burning at the stake at Rouen
twenty-four years before.
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Garden, Nancy. Dove and sword: a novel of Joan of Arc. Domremy, France, 1429. A peasant girl hears voices that say she has been chosen as God’s warrior. They tell her to lead an army and crown the dauphin King of France. The girl is Joan of Arc.
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Garland, Sherry. Song of the buffalo boy. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1992. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War and shunned because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, 17-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City, hoping to get to the U.S. and find her father.
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Gee, Maurice. The champion. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993. In 1943
twelve-year-old Rex sees his quiet New Zealand village
dramatically changed by the arrival of a black American
soldier on leave from the war.
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Gerstein, Mordicai. Victor : a novel based on the life of
Victor, the Savage of Aveyron. 1st ed. New York : Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1998. A novel based on the work of Dr.
Jean Marc Itard who spent the years shortly after the French
Revolution working with a "savage" boy whom he called
Victor, trying to prove he was not an idiot and to teach him
how to live in human society.
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Gille, Elisabeth, 1937-. Shadows of a childhood : a novel of war
and friendship. New York : New Press, 1998. Lea and
Benedicte, friends while in hiding during World War II,
share everything except the secret of their parents'
disappearances.
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Goodman, Allegra. The family Markowitz. New York : Pocket Books, 1996. A story about three generations of a Jewish family making their way in America.
FIC Gol
Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha. Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known.
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Greene, Graham, 1904-. The power and the glory. New York, : The
Viking press, 1946. In one of the southern states of Mexico, during an anti-clerical purge, the last priest is on the run. The priest is impelled toward his Calvary as much by his own compassion for humanity aand by his pursurers.
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Greene, Bette, 1934-. Morning is a long time coming. New York :
Puffin Books, 1999. This book is a sequel to: Summer of My
German Soldier. En route to Germany in search of the
maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen
lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair.
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Guthrie, A. B. (Alfred Bertram), 1901-. The big sky. Thorndike
large print. Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, 1985, c1947. A legend before he turns 20, Boone Caudill becomes a powerful White Savage that only one woman, the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief, would dare to love.
FIC Har
Harrison, Sue. Mother earth, father sky. New York : Avon Books,
1991,c1990. During the last Ice Age, a young Indian woman
embarks on a personal quest for survival and revenge.
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Heller, Joseph. Catch-22, : a novel. New York, : Simon and
Schuster, 1961. Set on a tiny Mediterranean island during world War II, this comic novel recounts the amazing adventures of the 256th bombing squadron and its lead bombardier, Captain Yossarian.
Fic Her
Hertenstein, Jane. Beyond paradise. Within months of arriving in the exotic Philippines from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to live with her missionary parents on the island of Panay, fourteen-year-old Louise finds herself a prisoner of war in an internment camp when the Japanese invade her new country in 1941.
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Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962. Siddhartha;. [New York, : New
Directions, 1951]. Original German edition 1923. A moral allegory, set in ancient India, about one soul’s quest for the ultimate answer to the enigna of man’s roles in this world. The hero, Siddhartha, endowed with all the virtues, undergoes a series of experiences to emerge to a state of wisdom.
FIC Hig
Higgins, Jack, 1929-. The eagle has flown : a novel. New York :
Simon & Schuster : Pocket, 1991, c1990. Sequel to: The
eagle has landed. Colonel Kurt Steiner, the German paratroop
officer believed to have been shot dead during his
assassination attempt on the Prime Minister, actually
survives his wounds and is spirited away to the Tower of London.
FIC Hig
Higgins, Jack, 1929-. Thunder point. New York : Putnam :
Berkley Books, c1993. British agents search for the secret
diaries of Martin Bormann that reveal British Nazi
sympathizers and the secret plan Protocol.FIFIC FIC FIC *FIC *FICHOB
Hobbs, Will. Jason's gold. New York : Morrow Junior Books,
c1999. When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon
Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks
on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
FIC HOH
Hoh, Diane. Titanic : the long night. New York : Scholastic,
c1998. When Elizabeth and Katie, two girls from very different backgrounds, board the Titanic, they think they are on their way to new lives in America, but what they do not know is that they will have to fight to stay alive on the sinking ship.
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Holeman, Linda, 1949-. Promise song. Toronto : Plattsburgh,
N.Y. : Tundra Books ; Tundra Books of Northern New York,
c1997. In 1900, like many thousands of children before them, fourteen-year-old Rosetta and her small sister Flora have been sent across the sea from an English orphanage to make their home in a new country. But when they arrive in Canada, Rosetta faces greater hardships than she ever imagined.
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Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885. Les miserables. New York : Fawcett
Premier, c1961. A novel of the political, social, and religious upheaval that followed the Napoleonic Wars and Europe's great democratic revolutions. In early 19th-France, a reformed ex-criminal finds himself threatened by people and events of his past.
*FIC Hun
Hunter, Mollie, 1922-. The king's swift rider : a novel on
Robert the Bruce. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998.
Unwilling to fight but feeling a sense of duty,
sixteen-year-old Martin joins Scotland's rebel army as a
swift rider and master of espionage for the leader, Robert
the Bruce.
Fic Joh
Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948-. Middle passage. New York :
Atheneum, 1990. I 1830, a newly freed slave leading a dissolute life in New Orleans, finds himself forced into marriage.
FIC Jon
Jones, James, 1921-1977. The thin red line. New York : Delta
Trade Paperbacks, 1998, c1962. A novel of combat in World
War II.
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Kerr, Judith. When Hitler stole pink rabbit. New York : Putnam
& Grosset Group, 1997, c1972. Recounts the adventures of a
nine-year-old Jewish girl and her family in the early 1930's
as they travel from Germany to England.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Kim. New York, NY : TOR, 1999.
Kim's early years as an orphaned beggar in India lead to an
exciting career in the British Secret Service.
Fic Koe
Koestler, Arthur, 1905-. Darkness at noon. 1st Macmillan Hudson
River ed. New York : Macmillan, 1987, c1963. After the Moscow Trials, an aging Russian revolutionary is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Communist Party to which he has dedicated his life. He recalls a career that embodies the ironies and betrayals of a totalitarian government.
FIC Lev
Levitin, Sonia, 1934-. Escape from Egypt : a novel. 1st ed.
Boston : Little, Brown : Puffin, c1994. When Moses comes to
lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a Hebrew
slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God
and his attraction to the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat.
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Llewellyn, Richard. How green was my valley. New York, : The
Macmillan company, 1940. At the turn of the century in a Welsh coal mining town, this novel is the story of Huw Morgan, his gentle by tyrannical father, his strong-willed brothers and sisters, and his brave and beloved mother.
FIC LLY
Llywelyn, Morgan. Strongbow : the story of Richard and Aoife : a
biographical novel. 1st mass market ed. New York, NY :
TOR, 1997, c1992. Aoife, an Irish princess of Leinster, and
Richard de Clare, known as Strongbow, tell their story of
love, war, and marriage during the reign of Henry
Plantagenet.
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Lowry, Lois. Number the stars. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell
Books for Young Readers, 1998, c1989. In 1943, during the
German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns
how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her
Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Fic Mac
MacLean, Alistair, 1922-. The Guns of Navarone. [1st ed.].
Garden City, N.Y., : Doubleday, 1957. When an all-out naval bombardment fails to silence the German artillery on the cliffs at Navarone, five men, each a specialist in violence, death, and destruction, are sent on a commando raid to destroy the guns.
*Fic Mal
Malamud, Bernard. The fixer. New York, : Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, [1966]. In Tsarist Russia, Yakov is accused of a
ritual murder he did not commit.
FIC Mar
Markandaya, Kamala, 1924-. Nectar in a sieve : a novel. Signet
ed. New York : New American Library, c1982. The story of a
simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose
whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for
those she loved.
*Fic Mat
Matas, Carol, 1949-. After the war. 1st ed. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1996. After being
released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II,
fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of
children across Europe to Palestine.
*FIC Mat
Matas, Carol, 1949-. Greater than angels. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998. Anna, a teenaged
German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children
were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon,
France, during the German occupation.
Fic Maz
Mazer, Harry. The Last mission. New York : Delacorte Press,
c1979. In 1944 a 15-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead, enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.
*FIC Mcc
McCaughrean, Geraldine. The pirate's son. New York : Scholastic Press, 1998, c1996. Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.
*FIC Mea
Mead, Alice. Adem's cross. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell
Books for Young Readers, 1998. Seeing his sister being shot
to death for reading a poem at a demonstration against
Serbian control of largely Albanian Kosovo changes forever
the life of thirteen-year-old Adem.
FIC Mor
Moran, Thomas. The man in the box. New York : Riverhead Books,
1998, c1996. The Lukassers, an ordinary Austrian family,
hide a Jewish doctor in their barn loft during World War II.
*FIC Nam
Namioka, Lensey. Den of the White Fox. 1st ed. San Diego, CA :
Harcourt Brace & Co., c1997. In medieval Japan, two
out-of-work samurai warriors must use their fighting skills
when they join a group of local boys, led by the mysterious
White Fox, in resistance to a cruel occupying force.
*FIC Nap
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-. Song of the Magdalene. New York :
Scholastic Press, 1996. Tells the story of Miriam, a young
girl being raised by her widowed father in ancient Israel,
who grows up to be Mary Magdalene.
*FIC NEW
Newth, Mette. The dark light. 1st English language ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. While enduring a bleak existence in a hospital for lepers in Norway during the early 1800s, Tora tries to find meaning in a life surrounded by death.
*Fic Orc
Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947. The Scarlet Pimpernel. Unabridged ed. New York : Dodd Mead, 1985, c1964. The rulers of the French Revolution cannot discover who this maddeningly elusive figure is that threatens their total power with his disguises, endless ruses and infinite daring.
*Fic Orw
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Animal farm;. New York, : Harcourt,
Brace, [1954]. A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.
*FIC ORW
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. 1984 : a novel. New York : Signet Classic, c1977. Depicts life in a future totalitarian regime
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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Doctor Zhivago.
Limited ed. Franklin Center, Pa. : Franklin Library, 1978. In Russia, Yuri Zhivago is a young doctor and poet trying to care for his wife and family when he meets Lara, the love of his life. When revolution breaks out, their world is torn apart, and their lives are at risk.
*FIC Pat
Paterson, Katherine. Of nightingales that weep. New York : Crowell : HarperTrophy, [1974]. The vain young daughter of a samurai finds her comfortable life ripped apart when opposing warrior clans begin a struggle for imperial control of Japan.
Fic Pes
Pesci, David. Amistad. A fictionalized retelling of one of America’s first civil rights cases which occurred in 1839 when 53 slaves who were captured in Connecticut after taking over the Spanish slaver Amistad, battled all the way to the U.S. Supreme court to win their freedom.
FIC POT
Potok, Chaim. I am the clay. 1st U.S. Ballantine Books ed. New
York : Fawcett Crest, 1994, c1992. Tells the story of an
old man, his wife, and a young boy brought together by
chance during the horror of the Korean War.
FIC PRE
Pressfield, Steven. Gates of fire : an epic novel of the Battle
of Thermopylae. Bantam pbk. ed. New York : Bantam Books,
1999, c1998. A young man chooses to join the Spartan Army,
and just as he grows accustomed to his new way of life he is
forced to fight in the battle of Thermopylae where all of
his fellow soldiers are killed, and he is the only man left
to carry on the Spartan traditions.
*Fic Rem
Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-1970. All quiet on the western
front;. Boston, : Little, Brown, and company, 1929. Depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I.
FIC Reu
Reuter, Bjarne B. The boys from St. Petri. 1st American ed.
New York, N.Y. : Dutton Children's Books : Puffin Books,
1994. In 1942, a group of young men begin a series of
increasingly dangerous protests against the German invaders
of their Danish homeland.
Fic Rob
Roberson, Jennifer. Lady of the glen : a novel of 17th-century Scotland and the massacre of Glencoe. Tells the story of Catriona and Alasdair who share a forbidden love, as members of warring clans in Scotland during the rule of English monarch William III, who condones the massacre of the MacDonalds at Glencoe in 1692.
FIC Sar
Sartre, Jean Paul, 1905-. The age of reason. 1st Vintage
International ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1992. Set in
1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy
who is obsessed with the idea of freedom.
FIC Shr
Shreve, Anita. Resistance : a novel. 1st ed. Boston : Little,
Brown and Co., c1995. Claire Daussois, sheltering refugees
in her home in Belgium during World War II, falls
passionately in love with a downed American pilot, despite
the fact she is married and the relationship has no future.
FIC Sie
Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 1846-1916. Quo vadis? New York :
Hippocrene Books, 1997. Portrays the degenerate days
leading to the fall of the Roman empire and the glory and
the agony of early Christianity.
*Fic Sku
Skurzynski, Gloria. Spider’s voice. Because he is a young mute person who can hear, Aran becomes involved in the adventures of Eloise and Abelard, France’s most famous lovers, who lived during the twelfth century.
*Fic Sol
Solzheniˆt‰syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-. One day in the life
of Ivan Denisovich. [1st ed.]. New York, : Dutton, 1963. Recounts the experiences of a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia as he struggles for survival.
FIC SPA
Sparks, Christine. The elephant man. New York : Ballantine, 1980. A novel based on the life of a nineteenth-century Englishman called the elephant man who suffered from Neurofibromatosis, a rare disease. He was condemned to a miserable life in a workhouse until a kind doctor gave him his first real home.
FIC Sto
Stone, Irving, 1903-. The agony and the ecstasy : a biographical
novel of Michelangelo. New York : Signet, c1961. A novel
of Michelangelo who was the creator of David, painter of the
Sistine ceiling, and architect of the dome of St. Peter's.
*FIC Tan
Tanaka, Shelley. On board the Titanic. New York : Hyperion
Books for Children, 1996. Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer
explores the Titanic and forms a brief friendship with
another passenger before experiencing the wreck of the giant
ocean liner.
Fic Tar
Tarr, Judith. Hosehold gods. Nicole is struggling to deal with her deadbeat ex-husband, the unwanted advances of her law partner, her son’s childhood crisis, when she finds herself transported back in time, to 170 A.D., an era she discovers is just as corrupt and violent as mondern-day L.A.
*FIC TAY
Taylor, Theodore, 1921-. The bomb. New York : Avon, [1997]. In
1944, when the Americans liberate Bikini Atoll from the
Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize
that in two years he will lead a desperate effort to save
his island home from a much more deadly threat.
*FIC Tem
Temple, Frances. The Ramsay scallop. New York : Orchard Books :
HarperCollins, c1994. At the turn of the 14th century in
England, 14-year-old Elenor finds her betrothal to an
ambitious lord's son launching her on a memorable pilgrimage
to far-off Spain.
*FIC Tem
Temple, Frances. Tonight, by sea : a novel. New York :
HarperTrophy, c1995. As governmental brutality and poverty
become unbearable, Paulie joins with others in her small
Haitian village to help her uncle secretly build a boat they
will use to try to escape to the United States.
Fic Tol
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. War and peace. Grosset, 1949.
An epic novel featuring the Russian role in the Napoleonic
wars and providing a complex panorama of the life of the
time.
Fic Tol
Toland, John. The Flying Tigers. New York : Random House, 1963.
An account of the Flying Tigers, a group of volunteer
American fliers who fought with China against Japan in World
War II.
*FIC Tom
Tomlinson, Theresa. The forestwife. New York : Bantam Doubleday
Dell, 1997, c1993. In England during the reign of King
Richard I, 15-year-old Marian escapes from an arranged
marriage to live with a community of forest folk.
FIC Tur
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883. Fathers and sons. New
York : Signet, 19??. A new translation of Turgenev's most
important novel, portraying a new type of hero, a
"nihilist," who would represent the values of the younger generation. This novel reveals the full breadth of 19th century Russia.
Fic Von
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade
: a duty-dance with death. New York : Dell, 1971, c1968. A
fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his
memories of the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1944, which he
witnessed while a prisoner of war.
FIC Wal
Paton Walsh, Jill, 1937-. A parcel of patterns. 1st American
ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1983. Mall Percival
tells how the plague came to her Derbyshire village of Eyam
in the year 1665, how the villagers determined to isolate
themselves to prevent further spread of the disease, and how
three-fourths of them died before the end of the following
year.
FIC Wat
Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. My brother, my sister, and I. 1st ed.
New York : Bradbury Press : Maxwell Macmillan International
: Aladdin Paperbacks, c1994. Living as refugees in Japan in
1947 while trying to locate their missing father,
13-year-old Yoko and her brother and sister must endure a
bad fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft, and
murder.
Fic Wei
Wiesel, Elie, 1928-. Night. [1st American ed.]. New York, :