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English
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Deadwood, South Dakota. Miners flock there seeking fortunes, while cardsharps, bandits, and businessmen seek to deprive those who strike gold by means fair and foul. Legendary former lawman Seth Bullock plans to keep the peace by any means necessary--especially when his good friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, is expected in town to celebrate the anniversary of Deadwood's founding. Delayed in Washington, the President has sent his wife and children...
2) Dakota
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Teddy Roosevelt's wife and mother died on the same night in his home in New York City. To outdistance his grief, he turned his back on a promising political career and fled to the badlands to restore his spirit through a thrilling adventure in the Wild West.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, from the waning days of the rugged frontier...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
""Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible."-- Tom Bissell Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition that included Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, documents their struggles with hunger and malaria before being captured by an Amazonian tribe that requires them to hunt a mysterious beast.
Author
Series
American chronicle (Gore Vidal) volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
By 1900 America, now reaching out for empire, is racked by titanic struggles over its own destiny. The novel re-creates a time that woud be remembered as America's Gilded Age: where political bosses rule, where robber barons fight to consolidate their wealth, and where a yellow headline can lead the country to war.
Author
Publisher
Winslow Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Frank Kovacs, a Polish immigrant working in the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, begins a correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt after he assumes the presidency on September 14, 1901.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 35
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back in time, they land in the tallest tree in Yosemite, California where they join nature conservationist, John Muir, and US President Teddy Roosevelt on a historic trip through the woods"--
Author
Publisher
Arcade CrimeWise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"New York, August 1896. A "hot wave" has settled on the city with no end in sight, leaving tempers short and the streets littered with dead horses felled by the heat. At Police Headquarters, the gruff, politically ambitious commissioner Theodore Roosevelt has been struggling to reform his notoriously corrupt department. Meanwhile, the yellow press is ready to pounce on the peccadilloes of the Four Hundred, the city's social elite--the better to sell...
11) Manifest destiny
Author
Publisher
Penzler Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
A rollicking adventure starring a young Theodore Roosevelt In 1884, Teddy Roosevelt's political career is dead in the water. A New York state assemblyman with eyes on national office, he finds his ambitions thwarted just months after his wife and infant daughter pass away. Frustrated by politics, he retires to the American West to ride, ranch, and hunt buffalo in the Dakota Badlands. Nobody tells him that the buffalo are gone. He arrives in Dakota...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt's first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary. Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee-many of them never before published-If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented...
Author
Series
Isaac Bell adventure volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2017
Language
English
Description
"It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special 'Black Hand Squad,' but the gangsters appear to be everywhere--so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Portia Washington's father Booker T. Washington was formerly enslaved and spent his life championing the empowerment of Black Americans through his school, known popularly as Tuskegee Institute, as well as his political connections. Dedicated to her father's values, Portia contributed by teaching and performing spirituals and classical music. But a marriage to a controlling and jealous husband made fulfilling her dreams much more difficult. When...
16) Roosevelt's boys
Author
Publisher
Five Star Publishing, a part of Cengage Learning, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
18) Saffire
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this love story set within a historical mystery, Brouwer brings to life the most impressive and embattled engineering achievement of the twentieth-century, the Panama Canal"--
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief, fictionalized account of what life was like for Theodore Roosevelt during his political career, with his oldest daughter, Alice, a strong-willed and somewhat wild young woman, who loved to do things that shocked the public, even when she lived in the White House.
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