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973.7082 ROBER

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973.7082 ROBER

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973.7082 ROBER

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[2015]	First edition.	Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers	x, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm	English	Available Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 973.7082 ROBER Central - Adult Nonfiction 973.7082 ROBER Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 973.7082 ROBER	More Info Place Hold

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CD 973.7082 ROBER

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CD 973.7082 ROBER

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[2015]	Unabridged.	Blackstone Audio, Inc. :	12 sound discs (870 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available Plaza - Adult Audiobooks CD 973.7082 ROBER Westover - Adult Audiobooks CD 973.7082 ROBER	More Info Place Hold

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2015	OverDrive	HarperCollins	English	Available Online Online OverDrive Collection	More Info Check Out OverDrive

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Based on a True Story
Spy Books - Collection Spotlight

"Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a ... look at Washington, D.C., and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this momentous period of American history"--Amazon.com.

2) The spymistress: a novel

Author

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Language

English

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2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.

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©2013.	Dutton	355 pages ; 24 cm	English	Checked Out 2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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CD F CHIAV

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[2013]	Unabridged.	Recorded Books	11 audio discs (13 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available Central - Adult Audiobooks has 2 CD F CHIAV	More Info Place Hold

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2013	OverDrive	Penguin Publishing Group	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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©2013.	Large print edition.	Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning	623 pages (large print) ; 23	English	Available Central - Adult Large Type LT F CHIAV Westover - Adult Large Type LT F CHIAV	More Info Place Hold

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3) Liar, temptress, soldier, spy: four women undercover in the Civil War

Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison.

Author

Abbott, Karen

Language

English

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Central - Adult Nonfiction has 2

973.785 ABBOT

Central - Recently Returned

973.785 ABBOT

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c2014.	First edition.	Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers	xiii, 513 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction has 2 973.785 ABBOT Central - Recently Returned 973.785 ABBOT	More Info Place Hold

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2014	OverDrive	HarperCollins	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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"The never-before-told story of four real-life women who risked everything to take on a life of espionage during the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.

4) The keeping room

Series

Drafthouse Films volume 32

Publisher

Drafthouse Films

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

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DVD WESTERN KEEPI

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DVD WESTERN KEEPI

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[2016]	Widescreen ed.	Drafthouse Films	1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available Central - Adult DVD has 2 DVD WESTERN KEEPI Shirlington - Adult DVD has 2 DVD WESTERN KEEPI	More Info Place Hold

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Thorndike Press large print core

In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise and their female slave Mad. The pair of soldiers track Augusta down intent on exacting revenge, the trio of women are forced to take up arms...

5) Christmas bells: a novel

Author

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook on CD, Large Type

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F CHIAV

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[2015]	First edition.	Dutton	317 pages ; 22 cm	English	Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F CHIAV Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F CHIAV	More Info Place Hold

Central - Adult Audiobooks

CD F CHIAV

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[2015]	Unabridged.	Recorded Books	9 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F CHIAV	More Info Place Hold

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©2015.	Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning	499 pages (large print) ; 23.	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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"Jennifer Chiaverini celebrates Christmas, past and present, with a story inspired by the classic poem, Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow."--

6) Lost river: Lincoln's secret weapon

Publisher

Vanguard

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

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DVD DRAMA LOSTR

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2012.	Widescreen edition.	Vanguard	1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available Central - Adult DVD has 2 DVD DRAMA LOSTR	More Info Place Hold

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7) Civil War wives: the lives and times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant

Based on the true story of Anna Ella Carroll, a self-taught lawyer and politician and unofficial member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet who was unrecognized for her accomplishments during the American Civil War.

Author

Berkin, Carol

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction

973.7082 BERKI

Central - Adult Nonfiction

973.7082 BERKI

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2009.	First edition.	Alfred A. Knopf	xiv, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm	English	Available Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 973.7082 BERKI Central - Adult Nonfiction 973.7082 BERKI	More Info Place Hold

8) A hope divided

Author

Cole, Alyssa

Series

The Loyal League volume 2

Publisher

Kensington Books

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction

F COLE

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2017.	First Kensington trade paperback edition.	Kensington Books	266 pages ; 21 cm	English	Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F COLE	More Info Place Hold

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2017	OverDrive	Kensington Books	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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9) A southern spy in Northern Virginia: the Civil War album of Laura Ratcliffe

For all of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped the cause in peace: with coded letters about anti-Rebel uprisings in her Carolina woods, tisanes and poultices for Union prisoners, and silent aid to fleeing slave and Freeman alike. Her formerly enslaved mother's traditions and the name of a white father she never knew have protected her-until the vicious Confederate Home Guard claims Marlie's home for their new base of operations in...

Author

Mauro, Charles V

Publisher

History Press

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

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VA B RATCLIFFE L

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B RATCLIF L

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2009.	History Press	222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm	English	Available Center for Local History - Adult Biography VA B RATCLIFFE L Westover - Adult Biography B RATCLIF L	More Info Place Hold

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10) Women of the blue & gray: true Civil War stories of mothers, medics, soldiers, and spies

Confederate Brigadier General J.E.B. Stuart entrusted a secret album to Laura Ratcliffe, a young girl in Fairfax County, "as a token of his high appreciation of her patriotism, admiration of her virtues, and pledge of his lasting esteem." A devoted Southerner, Laura provided a safe haven for Rebel forces along with intelligence gathered from passing Union soldiers. Ratcliffe's book contains four poems and forty undated signatures of Confederate...

Author

Monson, Marianne

Series

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction

Language

English

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Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction

973.7082 MONSO

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2018.	Shadow Mountain	x, 230 pages : photographs ; 24 cm	English	Available Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 973.7082 MONSO	More Info Place Hold

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[2018]	Large print edition.	Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company	431 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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11) The colors of courage: Gettysburg's hidden history : immigrants, women, and African-Americans in the Civil War's defining battle

Hidden among the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes: women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant - the women in these small drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands and sons during wartime to counseling President Lincoln on strategy, from tending to the wounded on the battlefield...

Author

Creighton, Margaret S

Publisher

Basic Books

Pub. Date

[2004]

Language

English

12) They fought like demons: women soldiers in the American Civil War

Central - Adult Nonfiction

973.7349 CREIG

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2004]	Basic Books	xxvii, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 973.7349 CREIG	More Info Place Hold

Author

Blanton, DeAnne

Publisher

Louisiana State University Press

Pub. Date

[2002]

Language

English

13) Sarah Emma Edmonds was a great pretender: the true story of a Civil War spy

Westover - Adult Nonfiction

973.7 BLANT

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[2002]	Louisiana State University Press	xiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.	English	Available Westover - Adult Nonfiction 973.7 BLANT	More Info Place Hold

Author

Jones, Carrie

Publisher

Carolrhoda Books

Pub. Date

[2011]

Language

English

Central - Kids Biography

JB EDMONDS S

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[2011]	Carolrhoda Books	1 volume (unpaged) : color ; 29 cm	English	Available Central - Kids Biography JB EDMONDS S Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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14) The better angels: five women who changed Civil War America

The story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who adopted numerous persona to spy on the Confederate army during the U.S. Civil War.

Author

Plumb, Robert C

Publisher

Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

15) Hospital days: reminiscence of a Civil War nurse

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Central - Adult New Nonfiction

973.7082 PLUMB

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2020.	Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press	xvi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm	English	Available 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult New Nonfiction 973.7082 PLUMB	More Info Place Hold

Author

Woolsey, Jane Stuart

Publisher

Edinborough Press

Pub. Date

1996.

Language

English

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VA B WOOLSEY J

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1996.	Edinborough Press	139 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm	English	Available (library use only) Center for Local History - Adult Nonfiction has 2 VA B WOOLSEY J	More Info

16) Tara revisited: women, war & the plantation legend

Author

Clinton, Catherine

Publisher

Abbeville Press

Pub. Date

[1995]

Language

English

17) A Confederate girl: the diary of Carrie Berry, 1864

Central - Adult Nonfiction

973.715 C641t

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[1995]	First edition.	Abbeville Press	240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 973.715 C641t	More Info Place Hold

Author

Berry, Carrie

Publisher

Blue Earth Books

Pub. Date

[2000]

Language

English

Central - Kids Nonfiction

J 973.782 BERRY

Westover - Kids Nonfiction

J 973.782 BERRY

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[2000]	Blue Earth Books	32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.	English	Available Central - Kids Nonfiction J 973.782 BERRY Westover - Kids Nonfiction J 973.782 BERRY	More Info Place Hold

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Excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, describing her family's life in the Confederate south in 1864. Supplemented by sidebars, activities, and a timeline of the era.

18) Ladies of Richmond, Confederate Capital

Author

Jones, Katharine M

Publisher

Bobbs-Merrill

Pub. Date

[1962]

Language

English

Center for Local History - Adult Nonfiction has 2

VA 975.5451 J77

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[1962]	Bobbs-Merrill	365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm	English	Available (library use only) Center for Local History - Adult Nonfiction has 2 VA 975.5451 J77	More Info

19) Memories: a record of personal experience and adventure during four years of war

Author

Beers, Fannie A

Publisher

Time-Life Books

Pub. Date

1985.

Language

English

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Center for Local History - Adult Nonfiction

VA 973.7 C697Bee

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1985.	Time-Life Books	336 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.	English	Available (library use only) Center for Local History - Adult Nonfiction VA 973.7 C697Bee	More Info

20) Louisa on the front lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War

Author

Seiple, Samantha

Publisher

Seal Press, Hachette Book Group

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Central - Adult Biography

B ALCOTT L

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2019.	First edition.	Seal Press, Hachette Book Group	v, 243 pages ; 24 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Biography B ALCOTT L Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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