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The remarkable and very true story of Lucy and Snowcap The remarkable and very true story of Lucy and Snowcap H. M. Bouwman In 1788, thirteen years after English convicts are shipwrecked on the magical islands of Tathenland, two twelve-year-old girls, one a native Colay, the other the child-governor of the English, set ou… OL12446654W
Les tambours sauvages Les tambours sauvages Michel Peyramaure 585 p. ; 24 cm OL135757W
Worlds apart Worlds apart Kathleen Karr In 1670, soon after arriving in the Carolinas with a group of colonists from England, fifteen-year-old Christopher West befriends a young Sewee Indian, Asha-po, and learns some hard lessons about sur… OL14912281W
Liberty's Exiles Liberty's Exiles Maya Jasanoff On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. B… OL15586970W
Settler and creole reenactment Settler and creole reenactment Vanessa Agnew,Jonathan Lamb,Daniel Spoth "Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment--unexpected emotions, unplanned developments--and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish nat… OL15907495W
Jamestown Jamestown Matthew Sharpe After the cataclysmic decimation of the Chrysler Building, a band of survivors sets out to establish an outpost in Virginia with the intention of finding oil and exploiting the region's Native Americ… OL16062741W
Your life as a settler in Colonial America Your life as a settler in Colonial America Thomas Kingsley Troupe Describes what it was like to live as a settler in Colonial America. OL16668706W
The bolter The bolter Frances Osborne Using letters, diaries, and family legend, Frances Osborne explores the life of Idina, her enigmatic great-grandmother, following her from Edwardian London to the hills of Kenya, where she reigned ov… OL17732563W
Magna Carta ancestry Magna Carta ancestry Douglas Richardson,Kimball G. Everingham xxxv, 1098 p. : 29 cm OL23988517W
Subject matter Subject matter Joyce E. Chaplin "With this reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of rac… OL4293958W
Seeds of discontent Seeds of discontent J. Revell Carr A narrative history of the largely unexplored events-starting almost a century before-that inspired the colonists to launch the American Revolution. Repressive actions by the Crown against its coloni… OL6037693W