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81) The union
Author
Pub. Date
©2022.
Language
English
Description
When Saige Wilde, a mixed-race enslaved girl saves her from an assassination attempt, 18-year-old Avi Jore, born to a powerful father and destined to rule, find their paths becoming intertwined in ways they never imagined as their efforts spark a revolution--and underscore the staggering power of friendship.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys—as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself—have decided to turn around the farm’s bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a 'stockman' to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves. Now each of the six faces a choice. Nan,...
84) The book of Etta
Author
Series
Road to Nowhere volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerousyet desperately necessary for humankinds future. Mothers and midwives are sacred, but Etta has a different calling. As a scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms, Etta roams the desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving...
87) Pharaoh
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Taita, the Pharaoh's advisor and hero of Desert God and River God, once again finds himself caught up in a whirlpool of ruthless intrigue that threatens the very foundations of the beloved empire he has pledged his life to protect. Plunged into dangerous and deadly waters more treacherous than the Nile, he must use his intelligence, alchemy, and cunning to protect his Pharaoh and keep safe all he loves.
Author
Series
Saddler's legacy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In Westerville, Ohio, 1855, Kate Winter's dreams are almost within reach. As the first woman to graduate from Otterbein College, she'll be guaranteed her deepest wish: escape from the dark secret haunting her family. But with her mother determined to marry her off to a wealthy man, Kate must face reality. She has to run. Now. And she has the perfect plan. Join the upcoming musical performance--and use it to mask her flight. Ben Hanby, Otterbein College's...
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When the body of an ambassador from Rome is discovered in the Imperial temple, Libertus is called in to investigate. But a mood of superstitious terror grips the town when the corpse disppears and unearthly wails are heard, and Libertus must unravel the mystery before they demand his blood.
92) Willow
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1848 Willow, a fifteen-year-old educated slave girl, faces an inconceivable choice -- between bondage and freedom, family and love -- as free born, seventeen-year-old Cato, a black man, takes it upon himself to sneak as many fugitive slaves to freedom as he can on the Mason-Dixon Line.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1781. You are James Armistead, a brave, literate enslaved person living in Virginia. General Lafayette approaches you with the most critical choice of your life: do you join the Revolutionary Army or find freedom on your own terms? As a spy for the revolution, you might change the course of history. But whose liberty will you really be fighting for?"--
94) Spring will come
Author
Series
Bregdan Chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
As her beloved city of Richmond is transformed into a deadly Civil War battlefield, spirited Carrie Cromwell puts her medical skills to work in a Confederate hospital. While she fights to save unknown soldiers, the one she cares about the most is lost to her. Meanwhile in the North, Carrie's dear friends, former slaves Rose and Moses have found freedom at last -- only to be separated by war. Can Moses, now a Union spy, elude those who are searching...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
April, CE 194. The tensions in the civil-war-torn Empire have come to Glevum now. Libertus's patron, Marcus Septimus, has received a letter from Druscilla Livia, a widowed cousin of his wife, seeking his protection. She has received an offer of marriage from a powerful Roman Senator, Hortius Valens, a man of cruel and unusual tastes, and she is in no position to refuse. She has run away . . . with Hortius in hot pursuit. This puts Marcus in a dangerous...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Bébinn is raised alongside her white half sister--until her father suddenly dies. His vindictive wife refuses twelve-year-old Jeannette her inheritance and sells her into slavery. Now on her own, Jeannette must fight the injustices she faces because of her mixed race. She escapes enslavement and travels from Mississippi to Philadelphia to New York to Ohio, all while...
98) Edenland
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Born a slave, Bledsoe had never left Our Joy plantation, and a daring escape offers his only chance for liberty. On the run he encounters Alice, an Irish indentured servant committing what appears to be an act of murder as she burns down a shack in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina. Faced with the threat of capture, Bledsoe and Alice become reluctant allies. An epic tale unfolds as their quest for freedom pulls them from swamp to city, from...
99) The dark griffin
Author
Series
(Katie Jill),Fallen moon volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Language
English
Description
"Being chosen as a griffin's companion has allowed Arren Cardockson to gain a place of status within the land of Cymria. But even with his griffin by his side, Arren can never escape the prejudice that comes with his Northerner slave origins. After an unfortunate incident leaves him in debt, Arren accepts the well-paying task of capturing a wild griffin, ignorant of the trials about to befall him. Betrayed by those he trusted and forced to fight for...
100) The griffin's flight
Author
Series
(Katie Jill),Fallen moon volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Arren Cardockson lived as a man oppressed by his slave heritage. Although he was once chosen as a griffin's companion, Arren was still reviled, betrayed, and ultimately killed for nothing more than his birth. Now, brought back by a power beyond his understanding, he is not quite alive but not quite dead, either. After exacting his revenge on those who wronged him, Arren flees his home for the frozen sanctuary of the North. With only the man-eating...
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