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803) Patch Adams
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lot about science ... And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
806) Monticello
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Describes the planning, construction, and occupancy of Thomas Jefferson's dream home.
807) Pocahontas
Publisher
Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia.
808) Emperor
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
812) Unthinkable
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who doesn't believe he's important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So it's a shock when members of a powerful secret society kidnap and spirit Nate away to a mansion at the behest of their leader, Vanslow DeGange, who claims to know the future. He's foreseen that a billion people could die--unless Nate acts. It seems improbable, especially given what DeGange says will set...
813) Spies: Mary Bowser
Author
Series
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"YOU are Mary Bowser, a spy in Virginia. Freed from slavery, you have teamed up with Elizabeth "Bet" Van Lew to form a spy ring of powerful, brave women. You are as quick with your weapon as you are with your mind, and you work secret messages and poisons into everyday objects. Hidden in plain sight, you and your ring change the outcome of the Civil War"--
814) Virginia Apgar
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Virginia Apgar in the She Persisted series"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An account of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's rise to prominence during the Civil War.
Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country's greatest military figures. His brilliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the...
816) Nat Turner
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
A biography of the slave and preacher who, believing that God wanted him to free the slaves, led a major revolt in 1831.
