Catalog Search Results
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A monumental reimagining of American history, Barry Jenkins₂s adaptation of Colson Whitehead₂s Pulitzer Prize₆winning 2016 novel is a harrowing and rhapsodic journey through a still-echoing past. Weaving together historical fiction with moments of magical realism, The Underground Railroad is a full sensory immersion into the world of Cora, who, fleeing slavery, embarks on a treacherous quest for freedom and is menaced by violence, supported...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Anna Maria Weems was just a teenager when she was given the opportunity to escape her enslaver in the mid-1800s. The journey would be dangerous, but she would have the help of abolitionists along the way. One of those supporters had a novel idea--Anna Maria would escape to freedom disguised as a boy. Learn about her brave journey on the Underground Railroad in this inspiring graphic novel"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Named for Napoleon Bonaparte, the town of Napoleon was platted in 1820, the second town in Ripley County, Indiana. Early in its history, Napoleon was a center of transportation and an important hub in the Underground Railroad. Berry's Trace, the Michigan Road and the Brookville/Napoleon Road connected the village to distant towns in Indiana as well as with the new state capitol in Indianapolis. Other Books in the:Ripley County History SeriesHistoric...
Author
Language
English
Description
We Built This City: Philadelphia tells of the history of Philadelphia, its association with the Lenape Native American tribe, William Penn, how it got its nickname "The City of Brotherly Love," and the role it played as the last stop on the Underground Railroad. Features popular locations to visit while in Philadelphia like Independence Hall, the Rocky Statue and Geno's cheesesteaks. Also included are historical and current pictures of Philadelphia,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A poignant and enlightening novel-rich in history, warm characterization and strong in sense of family.
Centered around New York City at the dawn of the Great Depression, the story depicts the warm, close relationship between a young boy abandoned by his mother after his father's tragic murder, and the gentle, loving grandfather who raised him. Through the grandfather's storytelling, the boy learns of his own rich and colorful history-his great-grandfather's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nelly has just moved to Salem, Ohio, a Quaker town with many who support the anti-slavery cause.
Her family joins the Underground Railroad, using the secret room Nelly discovers. When she overhears a plot to tar and feather her father, the new editor of the Anti-Slavery Bugle, she realizes there are enemies even in Salem.
Nelly has a chance to fight back when she joins in a rescue, but she learns the hard way that the rescued...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
If you love Christmas and stories (and who doesn't?), you will love Christmas in Cascade Falls, small town Michigan. Travel back in time to the Underground Railroad and Civil War period. Venture across the Atlantic and across time to celebrate Christmas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during 1935. Explore the wonderful "What Ifs" of life and join two star-crossed lovers as they try to make their relationship work. Enjoy Christmas through a dog's eyes...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the impressive and inspiring story of a remarkable man, born a slave on a Virginia plantation, who overcame the multiple disadvantages of being born "black" in America to become a prosperous businessman and respected member of an adopted community in Ohio.
It is a story of the devotion of a enslaved man and a enslaved woman to each other and of their quest for a place and circumstances in which they could rear a family in freedom. To fulfill...
Author
Language
English
Description
Widely known as the "poor man's lawyer" in antebellum Boston, John Albion Andrew (1818-1867) was involved in nearly every cause and case that advanced social and racial justice in Boston in the years preceding the Civil War. Inspired by the legacies of John Quincy Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mentored by Charles Sumner, Andrew devoted himself to the battle for equality. By day, he fought to protect those condemned to the death penalty, women...
10) Who Do Voodoo?
Author
Language
English
Description
For Middle Grade readers. Jesus and Voodoo. Party and prayer. Love and betrayal. Twelve year old New York City boy, Phil Williams, struggles with conflicting messages when, entrusted by his grandmother in the role of "Icebreaker," he visits estranged family in New Orleans as he sets out to restore the family relationship. With his best friend, Nestor, in tow, Phil encounters a series of strange events - erratic behavior by supposed family members,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the National-Book-Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born, and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she's a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero-the woman who, despite...
Didn't find it?
Didn't find it in the Minuteman Library Network? Request it from other Massachusetts library systems.
Can't find what you are looking for? Recommend it to your local library as a future purchase. Suggest a Purchase