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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent … |
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The god who begat a jackal
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Nega Mezlekia |
"In The God Who Begat a Jackal, the seventeenth-century feudal system, vassal uprisings, religious mythology, and the Crusades are beautifully intertwined with the intense love between Aster, the dau… |
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The Bondmaid
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Catherine Lim |
Set in Singapore in the fifties, the novel focuses on the story of Han. Sold as a slave into the House of Wu at the age of four, she forms a close bond with the heir of the household, but the idyllic… |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain,F.H. Cornish |
The adventures of a boy traveling down the Mississippi River with and escaped slave. |
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Chariots to Jordan
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E. James Harrison |
Firmly believing in miracles, twelve-year-old Gili, a young Israelite, will become the key to a powerful Syrian military commander's salvation -- and the reflief he desperately needs. |
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God, send sunday
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Jesse Jones |
Shadrach Cobb, a slave on a Mississippi cotton plantation, in response to a perceived threat on his life makes a daring escape via the Underground Railroad with his wife Kancy. |
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Kindred
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Octavia E. Butler |
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the… |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom… |
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Sweet Release
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Pamela Clare |
When a woman buys a dying convict to save his life, she little suspects he is truly an English aristocrat who will soon steal her heart |
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Empress
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Karen Miller |
In a family torn apart by poverty and violence, Hekat is no more than an unwanted mouth to feed, worth only a few coins from a passing slave trader. But Hekat was not born to be a slave. For her, a d… |
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Riddley Walker
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Russell Hoban |
Engrossing post apocalyptic book that told entirely in a vividly degenerated post-English that the reader is left to decipher as they find their way through the novel. |
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Black Ships
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Jo Graham |
"Haunting and bittersweet, lush and vivid, this extraordinary story has lived with me since I first read it." --Naomi Novik, author of His Majesty's DragonThe world is ending. One by one the mighty c… |
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