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Song of Slaves in the Desert - Alan Cheuse
SUMMARY:Based on historically accurate roots, this novel explores one New Yorker's involvement in his family's rice plantation and the wild tensions involved as he tries to ... -
Slaves of Obsession - Anne Perry
The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner party seems remote indeed from the ... -
Shadowline - Glen Cook
SUMMARY: The vendetta in space... had started centuries before "Mouse" Storm was born ... with his grandfather's raid on the planet Prefactlas, the blood bath that freed the human ... -
Long Distance Life - Marita Golden
Product DescriptionBefore the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended f... -
High on the Hog_ A Culinary Jou - Jessica B. Harris
FromAcclaimed cookbook author Harris (The Africa Cookbook, 1998) tells the story of the African diaspora through food, from the foodstuff brought along with African slaves to barel... -
Cinnabar Shadows - Lynn Abbey
Water. On Athas, it is life, it is currency, it is power... The watery caverns beneath Urik have become a haven for political refugees and runaway slaves, a place safe from the rav... -
Candle in the Darkness - Lynn N. Austin
From Library JournalFrom the time she was 12, Caroline Fletcher, daughter of a wealthy Richmond, VA, slave-holding family, knew she was different, for she knew that the household s...