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Author
Series
Torie O'Shea mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Genealogist Victory O'Shea of New Kassel, Missouri, is hired by Norah Zumwalt, a local antique dealer, to draw a family tree. Since her client's father never returned from World War II, Victory checks military records and discovers the father is living in a nearby town. She informs Norah who is promptly murdered. A first novel.
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Cahills vs. Vespers volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Siblings Amy and Dan must find another way to outwit the Vespers when they target and kidnap Dan's only friend, eleven-year-old Atticus.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"In this big-hearted debut about ambition, race, and class, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program. Almost a decade ago, Willie Revel gave up her burgeoning journalism career in New York to help run her father's struggling construction company in Philadelphia. An ambitious single mother, Willie has reluctantly put family first without being...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"In his 2016 best-seller, 'The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir,' Bill Griffeth told of learning that the father who raised him was not, in fact, his biological father. In this sequel, Bill continues his journey to learn about his newly discovered biological family and shares some of the dramatic stories strangers and friends told him about their own shocking DNA discoveries..."--Inside jacket flap.
346) Grandparents song
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A rhyming celebration of ancestry and of the diversity that flourishes in this country.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A guide to learning more about your relatives' experience serving in the U.S. Army during World War II.
In this fully revised edition of Finding Your Father's War, military historian Jonathan Gawne has written an easily accessible handbook for anyone seeking greater knowledge of their relatives' experience in World War II, or indeed anyone seeking a better understanding of the U.S. Army during World War II.
With over 470 photographs, charts, and...
350) Tangled roots
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Hannah Ives's sister, Georgina, has some astonishing news. A DNA test has revealed she is part Native American, and Hannah's test has similar results. The link seems to come from their late mother. But how? As Hannah dives into constructing her family tree, she uncovers a heart-breaking love story and a mysterious death, while DNA matching turns up two second cousins, Mai and Nicholas. Hannah and her niece, Julie, are eager to embrace their new relatives...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020].
Description
It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta "Bert" Monte receives a letter addressed to "Countess Alberta Montebianco" at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she's inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. But her ancestry has a dark side, and Bert soon learns that her family history is particularly complicated. As Bert begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets, she begins to realize her true inheritance lies not in a legacy of...
354) Backwater
Author
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.
Author
Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[2008]
Appears on list
Description
During a family reunion on the island of Oahu, Japanese-American undercover spy Rei Shimura is roped into helping the Hawaiian branch of her family regain land stolen from them during World War II. But when fire sweeps the island and her young cousin is accused of arson, Rei, with the assistance of both her boyfriend and ex-lover, must discover the truth, which turns out to be linked to the Shimura family history.
Author
Series
Sixty-eight rooms adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A magical coin coin leads sixth-graders Ruthie and Jack to 1753 Massachusetts and to Jack's pirate ancestor when they return to the Art Institute of Chicago's miniature Thorne Rooms on a mission to restore an African American family's reputation.
358) Disco dead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"It may seem creepy, but Hannah Ives enjoys her expeditions to the local cemetery to help people find their deceased relatives. Usually a quiet affair, Hannah is surprised when she encounters Isabel 'Izzy' Randall laying flowers on the grave of Amy Madison, a college senior who was killed in 1978. Last seen in a popular Annapolis disco bar, Amy's murder remains unsolved. Hannah's interest in the case leads her to join Silent Sleuths, a small, passionate...
359) Ancestry
Author
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room brings a slice of his own family history to life through extensive research and rich storytelling. Beginning with his great-great grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts through evidence like an archaeologist, piecing together the stories of his ancestors. Abraham's young life in the bleak Suffolk village where his parents worked as agricultural laborers was transformed...
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