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Triumph in Arms
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Jennifer Blake |
In order to keep her home and her inheritance, Reine Cassard must accept a proposal of marriage from sword master Christien Lenoir, but, after one night of intense passion, discovers that her new hus… |
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La isla bajo el mar
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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… |
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Accounting for slavery
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Caitlin Rosenthal |
Accounting for Slavery offers a history of business and management practices on slave plantations in the British West Indies and the American South, covering the century from approximately 1780-1880.… |
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He was a ram
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Violet L. Lai |
Wong Aloiau (1847-1919) immigrated from China to Honolulu in 1865, and about 1870 left Oahu for Kauai. He married three times (once in China, where that wife died, and twice in Hawaii). Descendants a… |
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Teachers Must Learn
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Nerina Hilliard |
Everyone on the tropical island of Ladrana thought that Laurel Shannon and Stephen Barrington should make a match of it--everyone, that is, except Laurel--and Stephen. |
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Plantation patriot
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Frances Leigh Williams |
A biography of a woman who, as a South Carolina planter, successfully cultivated indigo plants for trade with England and, although raised as a loyal subject to the Crown, supported her sons in the R… |
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Mr. Jefferson's lost cause
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Roger G. Kennedy |
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers -- free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system -- particularly … |
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Seas of gold, seas of cotton
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Martha L. Keber |
"This biography of a man who flourished in two very different worlds opens a new doorway into the societies of prerevolutionary France and postrevolutionary Georgia. Christophe Poulain DuBignon (1739… |
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Counterfeit lady
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Jude Deveraux |
Nicole was a passionate French beauty, kidnapped by mistake and swept across turbulent seas...to be the bride of a stranger.
In eighteenth-century Virginia, the lush lands embraced the rivers that … |
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