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Fallout

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the political science of the atomic bomb
2001
Mixes fact and fiction in a graphic novel about the scientists behind the atomic bomb project.

Taking liberty

the story of Oney Judge, George Washington's runaway slave
2002
Oney Judge, having been a loyal servant to Martha Washington for twenty years, comes to the realization that she is just a slave and must decide if she will run away to find true freedom.

The song of the Magdalene

1996
Tells the story of Miriam, a young girl being raised by her widowed father in ancient Israel, who grows up to be Mary Magdalene.

Schindler's list

1993
The true story of a man who took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build a factory camp to protect Jews during World War II.

Postcards to father Abraham

a novel
2000
When sixteen-year-old Meghan loses her leg to cancer and her brother to Vietnam, she expresses intense anger in postcards which she writes to her idol, Abraham Lincoln.

Letters from Vinnie

1999
A fictionalized account of the Washington, D.C., Civil War years experienced by Vinnie Ream the sculptress, best known for the statue of Abraham Lincoln that is in the Capitol building.

Pastwatch

the redemption of Christopher Columbus
1996
Taguri, one of a group of scientists and historians living in a post-apocalyptic world, views the past through a machine, TruSite II, and discovers one of the women she is studying can see her, too. The discovery sets off a debate over whether the past can be changed to save the future.

Ben-Hur

a tale of the Christ
1992

Come like shadows

1993
Thrilled to land a summer job on a major production of "Macbeth", sixteen-year-old Kinny soon finds everything going dangerously wrong especially after she acquires a seemingly ordinary old mirror from a junk shop.

Taste of salt

a story of modern Haiti
1992
In the hospital after being beaten by Macoutes, seventeen-year-old Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to a young woman who, like him, has been working with the social reformer Father Aristide to fight the repression in Haiti.

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