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1) Ours
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
580 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This ingenious, sweeping novel introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjurer who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours. It is in this miraculous place that Saint's grand experiment -- a truly secluded community where her people may...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xvi, 351 pages : map, portrait ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The American Queen is based on actual events that occurred between 1865-1889 and shares the unsung history of a Black woman who built a kingdom as a refuge for the courageous people who dared to dream of a different way of life."--
"Over the twenty-four years she was enslaved on the Montgomery Plantation, Louella learned to feel one thing: hate. Hate for the man who sold her mother. Hate for the overseer who left her daddy to hang from a noose....
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