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1) Ghost Hawk
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At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
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Describes how young John Howland got a job as an indentured servant in order to follow his master, Pilgrim John Carver, on the "Mayflower" to the New World. On the way, John had a bit of luck as he survived falling overboard during a storm. Then, he helped the Pilgrims find a safe harbor as they came into New England, and played an instrumental part in building up their first settlement.
14) Beheld: a novel
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Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough.
15) The Mayflower
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"Myths about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's arrival in modern-day America debunked"--
Challenging popular misconceptions about the actual events behind major historical periods, a fact-first chronicle of the Mayflower voyage and founding of the Plymouth Rock colony reveals how the Pilgrims nearly settled elsewhere, almost had a second ship and only met the Wampanoag months after arriving.--
19) William Bradford
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English
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A biography of William Bradford, from his childhood and religious persecution in England to his years as the first governor of the Plymouth Colony.