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English
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Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
“My Bondage and My Freedom”, by Frederick Douglass. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
• Footnotes and endnotes
• Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired...
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Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the history of slavery in the United States, from colonial times to the end of the Civil War, and includes information on the slave trade, the Underground Railroad, and the lives of African Americans after emancipation.
5) Yesterday
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English
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"As children, Callie, Brie, Bode, and Sela shared a rare closeness, the kind that seems destined to last forever. Though their backgrounds could hardly have been more different, none of that mattered when they played together in the grounds of Callie's lavish home. There, they learned about love, loyalty, and forgiveness, never realizing how little they really knew about each other or about Pearl, the woman who was a mother figure to them all. Callie's...
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Series
Lights of Lowell volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"When tragedy strikes, Jasmine Houston must uproot her family from the Northern mill town of Lowell and take over her family's Southern plantation. Tensions are high, and the lives of the slaves they've promised to protect hang in the balance"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.
9) Deep summer
Author
Series
Plantation trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
1937.
Language
English
Description
The emergence of the great Louisiana plantations forms a colorful background for this romantic story of a dashing Carolinian and a girl from Connecticut.
Author
Series
Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1640's Colonial Virginia, a marriage of convenience becomes most inconvenient when the bride proves more than the planter had bargained for"--Provided by publisher.
12) Folly's bride
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Series
Brides of Montclair volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004, 1990.
Language
English
Description
"Sara! You must come out! You're wanted downstairs right away," Lucie hissed through the keyhole on the locked bedroom door. "Stepmama is furious and Father has sent word that he's coming home early from the Exchange. She says he's in a rage over what you've done!" "I haven't done anything! It's not my fault if those two hotheads decide to fight a duel!" came her sister's indignant voice from the other side of the door. "Oh, Sara, please!" Lucie pleaded....
13) Ransomed bride
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
"I won't lose you now! " said Cam in a voice ragged with emotion. The moon moved across the sky from behind the sheltering trees, and suddenly the two of them were enveloped in moonlight. "I love you, and yet I know I have no right to speak to you of this. I'm not free. I'm engaged--" "Oh, Cam, don't! " she begged. "It cannot be. It is too late. There is no way--" A tremor coursed through her -- a premonition of danger. This was madness, she knew....
14) Valiant bride
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 1
Publisher
Walker and Company
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Noramary came out of the parlor into the hall. Stunned by what she had just heard, she felt slightly light-headed and leaned against the closed door for a moment to steady herself. The shock of Winnie's elopement during the night had been followed by a second -- the staggering request of her foster parents that she step into her errant cousin's place as the bride of Duncan Montrose! "So you see, my dear, why we must ask this of you?" Aunt Betsy's...
16) Destiny's bride
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Series
Brides of Montclair volume 9
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Even while Randall was speaking, it was Pietro I saw, the tenderness in his dark eyes looking at me, the caress in his soft voice. In Randall's voice there was not a shred of emotion; nor was there any in his expression. How should I respond? What should I say? I knew this was the hardest decision I would ever have to make. Either choice would demand a different price. Was I prepared to pay it? Was love enough in the one to bridge all the other differences...
17) Gallant bride
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 6
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Blythe gazed into his eyes. It seemed as if she were looking into his very soul. Could she read genuine repentance there . . . or just regret that he had brought shame to himself, disgraced his family? Suddenly, she knew. This was the real Malcolm -- before the War, before Rose died, before his life became a wasteland. She saw the Malcolm who remained uncorrupted -- gentle, intelligent, gallant before tragedy and loss took their bitter toll. Could...
18) Shadow bride
Author
Series
Brides of Montclair volume 7
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
For Rod it was a moment out of a thousand dreams. Yet the reality was more than he could have imagined. "Blythe!" He said her name and in his voice was all the hope he'd thought was lost. The woman he saw was even lovelier than the girl he remembered. She was still as beautiful -- tall, slender, the glorious auburn hair, the soft, vulnerable mouth and peachbloom skin -- as when he had first met her at Montclair. At sixteen, Blythe had been shy, eager...
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Series
Carolina cousins volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"The tragic romance of Emma and a wounded 'buffalo soldier.' When the two fall in love, it poses problems for William McSimmons' political career. Can their love keep them together?"--Provided by publisher.
20) The known world
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Publisher
Amistad
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
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