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English
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On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body.
Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death,...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 47
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. "I can only hope," she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, "that...
Author
Series
Flashback Four volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Miss Z, a mysterious billionaire and a collector of rare photographs, is sending her four recruits back in time on a mission to capture, for the first time, one of the most important moments in American history -- Abraham Lincoln giving his famous Gettysburg address"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth"--
In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth--breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"The novel opens in 1832 in the Black Hawk War, when Micajah (Cage) Weatherby--an imaginary character--and Lincoln meet. Afterwards Cage musters out to Springfield, Illinois, where he becomes part of the group of ambitious young men, which includes Lincoln, in this frontier town on the make. And it is through Cage that we come to know his friend Lincoln in his twenties and early thirties, the Lincoln who is already a circuit-riding lawyer and a member...
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Language
English
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"An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"On Independence Day, the citizens of Washington, DC, are celebrating as if there isn't a war. But the city is teeming with green Union recruits while President Lincoln and his War Department are focused on military strategy to take Richmond in Secessionist Virginia in order to bring the conflict to a swift end. Manassas, Virginia, near Bull Run Creek, is in their sights. The very next morning, as Congress convenes once more, a dead body is found...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
387 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1864, Washington City. One has to be careful with talk of secession, of Confederate whispers falling on Northern ears. Better to speak only when in the company of the trustworthy. Like Mrs. Surratt. A widow who runs a boardinghouse, Mary Surratt hears all about the cause from her son, Johnny. If he's not delivering messages or escorting veiled spies, he's inviting home men like John Wilkes Booth, the actor who is even more charming in person than...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Edition.
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Nell Warne couldn't have imagined what awaits her when she arrives on her long-lost aunt's doorstep lugging a heavy sack of sorrows. Much to Nell's surprise, her aunt is a detective, working for the world-famous Pinkerton's National Detective Agency! Nell quickly makes herself indispensable to Aunt Kate... and not just by helping out with household chores. As her aunt travels around the country solving mysteries, Nell must crack codes,...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (139 pages).
Language
English
Description
When a visiting history professor finds a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Albert J. Somer, founder of Somerville, in the Somerville Museum, the whole town is soon buzzing with ideas about what to do with the money the valuable artifact will bring in--so when the letter disappears siblings Rowan and Astrid Vega and their friends Jace and Quinn set out to find it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abby and her stepbrother, Doc, must persuade Abraham Lincoln to play his part in history after one too many comments about history being boring cause him to go on strike.
20) Lincoln: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
Random House 1st ed.
Physical Desc
657 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English