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Author
Publisher
Sandorf Passage
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Because something is happening, in the distance, approaching from above and below. Weird holes are appearing. I'm often drawn by a void. And that might be the reason I have started to speak. So says the Scatterwind, the narrator in Robert Perisic's latest novel, A Cat at the Edge of the World. Defying the realms of time and space, the Scatterwind is a knowing presence throughout this story, which spans from the time of ancient Sparta to our contemporary...
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English
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A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially...
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English
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
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English
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"Russell's Knob is not paradise. But already in 1849 this New Jersey highlands settlement is home to a diverse population of blacks, whites, and reds who have intermarried and lived in relative harmony for generations. It is a haven for Dossie Bird, who has escaped north along the Underground Railroad and now feels the embrace of the Smoot family. Duncan Smoot presides as accidental patriarch, protector of his enterprising sister, Hattie, and his...
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Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
60 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trying to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia after having been a slave, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend.
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Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 19 x 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the Underground Railroad, a group of people and places through which runaway slaves escaped to freedom before the Civil War.
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Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
61 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the Civil War ends, Addy desperately hopes that her family will be reunited in freedom in Philadelphia, but the future may hold both happiness and heartache.
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Language
English
Description
A novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
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Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 173 pages : maps, illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a riverboat worker who dressed as a woman to the abolitionist who died for his beliefs, It Happened on the Underground Railroad offers a gripping look at heroic individuals who became a part of the famous 'road' to freedom"--Provided by publisher.
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English
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"It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Confederates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep Will warm during his winter months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war,...
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English
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Ben Hansby is determined to cast a young student, Kate Winter, in his musical as he guards his participation in the Underground Railroad, while Kate is determined to use the musical to flee from her mother's determination to marry her off to a wealthy suitor.
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English
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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town - with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry - whom Brown nicknames Little Onion - conceals his true identity as he...
15) Song yet sung
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next - as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope - and help - came in the from of the Underground...
17) Slave old man
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English
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"The reader is invited to blaze a trail through this forest of symbols. The last chapter will shed light on the profound meaning of the fable. But the point is less to capture than to be captivated by the energy, the luxuriance, and the playful solemnity of writing that masterfully melds French, Creole, and yet other voices as well."--L'Express.
From one of the most innovative and subversive novelists writing in French, a "writer of exceptional and...
18) Black sun rising
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English
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"Based on historical events in 1851, this Western noir novella traces the struggle of the first integrated Native American tribe to establish themselves on the North American continent. After escaping the Oklahoma relocation camps they had been placed in following their forced evacuation from Florida, the Seminole Indians banded with fugitive slaves from the American South to fulfill the vision of their leader, Coyote, to establish their land in Mexico's...
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English
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"Lay This Body Down, the third Gideon Stoltz Mystery, takes place in 1837 during one of the most horrific periods in pre-Civil War America, when human beings were considered chattel and both northern and southern states grew rich from slave labor. A Pennsylvania sheriff like Gideon could choose to uphold the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 or defy that racist law at great peril. In this hard-hitting, action-packed novel, Gideon tries to protect...
Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad ... This ... stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only...
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