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Author
Series
Crescent City (Sarah J. Maas) volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she's going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that's no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust. Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After...
Author
Language
English
Description
The autobiography of Booker T. Washington, a remarkable orator and former slave who pressed for equality and black community.
"Born in a Virginia slave hut, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated in worldwide recognition for his many accomplishments. In simply written...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Hanuvar volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Dervan Empire has at last triumphed over Volanus, putting the great city to the torch, its treasures looted, temples defiled, and fields sown with salt. What little remains of Volanus is scattered across the empire, its treasures plundered and its survivors sold into slavery. It is an absolute victory for the Dervans in every way but one. Hanuvar, last and greatest general of Volanus, still lives. He now travels the length of the Dervan Empire...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
5) The fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country--revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea that was sparked and first developed...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xix, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--
Publisher
Buffalo 8
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (63 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The life, contributions, and erasure of America's culinary founding father are explored by food historians, celebrated chefs, experts on race and the African American diaspora. Through their words and the persistence of a curious chef, Ashbell McElveen, the life of America's missing icon comes into focus. Mac & Cheese, French fries, whipped cream, and many other foodie favorites disseminated from a slave kitchen in Charlottesville from the hands...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 480 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose poetry was at the heart of the American Revolution"--
"Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the...
10) The ghost ship
Author
Series
Burning chambers volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 476 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands. But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. And the stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xxx, 304 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the National-Book-Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born, and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she's a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero-the woman who, despite...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From USA Today bestselling author and Christy Award Hall of Fame inductee Tamera Alexander comes the story of two women from different centuries living in the same house who share strikingly similar journeys. Claire Powell's life is turned upside down when her beloved husband admits to a "near affair." But when Stephen accepts a partnership with an Atlanta law firm without consulting her and buys a historic Southern home sight-unseen--it pushes their...
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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