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Author
Series
Shawn O'Brien series volume 3
Language
English
Description
In Big Buck, Texas, those who profit from war are about to face a bloody battle of their own . . .
From America's bestselling Western authors comes this violent saga of the frontier legend known as the Town Tamer: the man who appears when all justice has fled . . .
Feed the beast—or die
On the West Texas border a behemoth is bellowing smoke, fire, and death. This monster is the infamous Abaddon Cannon Foundry,...
From America's bestselling Western authors comes this violent saga of the frontier legend known as the Town Tamer: the man who appears when all justice has fled . . .
Feed the beast—or die
On the West Texas border a behemoth is bellowing smoke, fire, and death. This monster is the infamous Abaddon Cannon Foundry,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That's what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own, she must leave behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and take refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There, amidst a revolving door of gamblers,...
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
Description
A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The landmark four-part series documents the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states, and through the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. The series examines the integral role slavery played in shaping the new country's development, challenging the long-held notion that it was exclusively a Southern enterprise.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind."-San Francisco Chronicle. It has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America's War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything we never knew about our nation's bloodiest conflict in Don't Know Much About ® the Civil War-another fascinating and fun installment in his acclaimed series.
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From New Orleans to Virginia, Mississippi and Canada, Frances Causey and Sally Holst travel the roads of oppression, suppression, and even hope to reveal the connections of slavery and strong arm Southern politics to the current racial strife in America.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 7-Part Compelling Journey Through America's Greatest Saga! In 1860, the nation founded upon an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness had as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners and almost four million slaves. By denying these rights to more than twelve percent of its population, America would soon pay with the blood of a generation. ...
12) Up from slavery
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 5 hr., 6 min.) : DVD video, sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1860, as the American Experiment threatened to explode into a bloody civil war, there were as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners in the United States, and almost four million slaves. The nation was founded upon the idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The nation would pay a bloody cost for denying those rights to more than twelve percent...
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Language
English
Description
When tragedy strikes, Jasmine Houston must uproot her family from the Northern mill town of Lowell and take over her family's Southern plantation, The Willows. But upon her arrival, her antislavery positions cause strife between Jasmine and her neighbors and relatives. Tensions continue to rise until an explosive act - the burning of The Willows - causes Jasmine and her husband to flee north. But lives of the slaves they have promised to protect hand...
Author
Series
Shade of vampire volume 1
Publisher
[Createspace]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
New and lengthened 2015 edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the evening of Sofia Claremont's seventeenth birthday, she is sucked into a nightmare from which she cannot wake. A quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to face with a dangerous pale creature that craves much more than her blood. She is kidnapped to an island where the sun is eternally forbidden to shine. An island uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire coven on the planet. She wakes here as a slave, a captive...
15) Wolf by the ears
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
xi, 252 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University. In this groundbreaking account, journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States. Through the saga of the Mahoney family,...
17) Horse
Author
Language
English
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the...
20) Palmares
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
492 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil. "Palmares" recounts the journey of Almeyda, a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares. Following its destruction, Almeyda embarks on a journey across colonial Brazil to find her husband lost in battle. Her story brings to life a world impacted by greed, conquest,...
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