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Items with the category:

Historical Fiction

Cover of The End of My Heart
Fic­tion
The End of My Heart
Gayle For­man
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Fic­tion
Exile Music
Jen­nifer Steil
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Fic­tion
Newark Min­ute­men: A True 1930’s Leg­end About a Box­er Who Tries to Save a Nation’s Soul With­out Los­ing His Own
Leslie K. Barry
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Fic­tion
Riv­er
Shi­ra Nayman
Cover of The Bomb Squad: Clash of the Patriots
Fic­tion
The Bomb Squad: Clash of the Patriots
Neil Per­ry Gordon
Cover of Wolf: A Novel
Fic­tion
Wolf: A Novel
Alan A. Winter,Herbert J. Stern
Cover of The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story
Fic­tion
The Queen of Tues­day: A Lucille Ball Story
Darin Strauss
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Fic­tion
Shad­ow of the Black Flame
Misha Sauce­da
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Fic­tion
The Age of Light
Whit­ney Scharer
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Fic­tion
Ariel Sam­son: Free­lance Rabbi
MaN­ish­tana
Essay

‘If the Muse comes call­ing’: Jane Yolen on Writing

Jane Yolen
July 22, 2019
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Fic­tion
In the Neigh­bor­hood of True
Susan Kaplan Carlton
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Chil­dren’s
The Brave Princess and Me
Kathy Kac­er
Essay

‘Writ­ing Their Ways Toward Hope’: Sur­viv­ing World War II in Shanghai

Rachel DeWoskin
July 8, 2019
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Chil­dren’s
Sav­ing Han­no: The Sto­ry of a Refugee Dog
Miriam Halahmy 
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Chil­dren’s
Pic­ture Girl
Marlene Targ Brill; Michael Sayre, illus.
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