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2011.
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the award-winning, bestselling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. • “Santiago’s storytelling is thrilling.... A triumph.” —The Washington Post
As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with...
As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with...
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Lights of Lowell volume 3
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English
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When tragedy strikes, Jasmine Houston must uproot her family from the Northern mill town of Lowell and take over her family's Southern plantation, The Willows. But upon her arrival, her antislavery positions cause strife between Jasmine and her neighbors and relatives. Tensions continue to rise until an explosive act -- the burning of The Willows -- causes Jasmine and her husband to flee north. But lives of the slaves they have promised to protect...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"Inspired by the life of a 19th-century woman rice farmer, this novel pays tribute to the hauntingly beautiful South Carolina Lowcountry weaving together mystery, romance, and historical detail, and bringing to life the story of one young woman's struggle to restore her ruined world following the Civil War"--
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From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with
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"North Carolina, 1793. Ian Cameron, a Boston cabinetmaker turned frontier trapper, has come to Mountain Laurel hoping to remake himself yet again-- into his planter uncle's heir. No matter how uneasily the role of slave owner rests upon his shoulders. Then he meets Seona-- beautiful, artistic, and enslaved to his kin. Seona has a secret: she's been drawing for years, ever since that day she picked up a broken slate to sketch a portrait. When Ian catches...
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December 1795. A year has passed since Ian Cameron reluctantly sent his uncle's former slave Seona and their son, Gabriel, north to his kin in Boston. Determined to fully release them, Ian strives to make a life at Mountain Laurel, his inherited plantation, along with Judith, the wife he's vowed to love and cherish. But when tragedy leaves him alone with his daughter, Mandy, and his three remaining slaves, he decides to return north. An act of kindness...
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Daughtry House novels volume 1
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English
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Five years after the War Between the States, Selah Daughtry can barely provide for herself, her two younger sisters, and a cousin. Pinkerton agent and ex-Union soldier Levi Riggins is investigating crimes linked to the Daughtry plantation. Posing as a railroad agent, he offers to help Selah save the house by converting it into a hotel. Selah isn't sure she trusts the handsome Yankee, but she'll do almost anything to save her home.
The War Between...
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When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
11) Just imagine
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English
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After the Civil War, Kit Weston heads to New York City disguised as a boy, determined to kill Baron Cain, a Yankee war hero who stands between her and her South Carolina home, but she soons finds her masquerade threatened by passion.
12) Property
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WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE • Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a “fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one's interior life.... The writing—so prised and clean limbed—is a marvel" (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved).
Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously...
Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously...
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Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 1
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English
Description
This clever historical romance with sparks aplenty will energize the category with its zesty humor and winning Colonial history.
15) Django unchained
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz.
16) Savannah
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD video (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Based on the true story of Ward Allen, who shuns his plantation rights to live his life as a hunter on the river.
17) Crossed bones
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Mississippi Delta mysteries volume 4
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English
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When black pianist Ivory Keys is stabbed to death, the Mississippi town of Zinnia divides along racial lines. The prime suspect is Key's rich and white protege Scott Hampton. Amateur sleuth Sarah Booth Delaney is hired to prove Scott's innocence, but to do so, she'll have to navigate some treacherous waters.
18) Nightwalkers
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Cam Richter novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
19) River lady
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English
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As a child, Leah was given a $20 gold piece from handsome Wesley Stanford and vows to marry him in the future. When she grows up and is ready to marry, she finds that he is engaged to someone else.
20) Jubilee bride
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Brides of Montclair volume 9
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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