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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Senator's bride	Jane Peart	Old loyalties, values, and traditional beliefs are brought into conflict and evaluation as the life-long friendship of the Montroses and Camerons is seriously threatened by the divided loyalties emer…	OL14854036W
The widow of the south	Hicks, Robert	A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, and dedicating her home as a…	OL15156312W
Pawleys Island	Dorothea Benton Frank	Catapulted from her home, her marriage, and her children, artist Rebecca Simms has come to Pawleys Island to hide from herself.	OL15745016W
Die Insel der tausend Quellen	Christiane Gohl	Tras la muerte de su primer amor, Nora, la hija de un comerciante londinense, se une, a través de un matrimonio de conveniencia, a Elias, un viudo propietario de un plantación de azúcar. La vida en e…	OL16802702W
Kate Chopin	Kate Chopin	A precursor of the twentieth century's feminist authors, Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote short stories and novels for children and adults. The St. Louis native lived in New Orleans for a dozen years an…	OL17882776W
A Different Sun	Elaine Neil Orr	When Emma Davis reads the words of Isaiah 6:8 in her room at a Georgia women's college, she understands her true calling: to become a missionary. It is a leap of faith that sweeps her away to Africa …	OL17923083W
Millie's Remarkable Journey (A Life of Faith	Martha Finley	"'Slavery is a great evil and we must stand against it,' insisted Millie. 'But we've never seen ourselves. How are we supposed to know for sure if the awful stories we hear are true?' Effie asked. 'M…	OL1797522W
La isla bajo el mar	Isabel Allende	Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her chil…	OL1905293W
The true and authentic history of Jenny Dorset ..	Philip Lee Williams	xii, 494 p. ; 23 cm	OL1936620W
Elsie's true love	Martha Finley,Martha Finley/Mission City Press	Elsie, now twenty-one years old, wishes to marry an old friend but her father decrees she must first learn to manage her inheritance, including her mother's Louisiana sugar plantation and its slaves.	OL19486234W
Darjeeling	Bharti Kirchner	"Set in the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling, India, and in New York City, Darjeeling is the story of two sisters, Aloka and Sujata, long separated by their love for Pranab, an idealistic yo…	OL1969777W
Twelve years a slave	Solomon Northup	Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the Americ…	OL19974251W
Twelve Years a Slave	Solomon Northup	The true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York.who was kidnapped by slave hunters and sold into slavery where he endured degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years la…	OL20248285W
Daily life on a southern plantation, 1853	Erickson, Paul	Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there.	OL2682230W
Zhui qing ji = Texas woman	Joan Johnston	The New York Times bestselling author of The Cowboy, The Texan, and The Loner weaves her seductive magic once again as she journeys back to the lawless frontier of Nineteenth-century Texas to bring u…	OL29494W
The Known World	Antonio Fernandez Lera,Edward P. Jones	E-Book exclusive extras: "Inside The Known World: An Interview with Edward P. Jones"; Reading Group GuideHenry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost …	OL4112932W
Slave Family (Colonial People)	Bobbie Kalman	Introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America.	OL447164W
Maum Guinea and her plantation "children", or, Holiday-week on a Louisiana estate	Metta Victoria Fuller Victor	215 p. : 16 cm	OL514820W
South by southwest	James David Miller	"In exploring what planter mobility reveals about planter identity and culture, South by Southwest blends analysis of both public and private responses to emigration and in so doing illuminates the w…	OL5952866W
Twilight at Monticello	Alan Pell Crawford	Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, with good reason: His life was a great American drama--one of the greatest--played out in compelling acts. He was the architect of our democracy, a visio…	OL6210290W