First Edition.
Award-winning author.
Outstanding story told in poems from each of the main characters.
Ex-library book in excellent condition with the exception of library stickers on the front and spine , as well as on 1 of the 1st pages 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba

The freedom to roam is something that women and girls in Cuba do not have. Yet when Fredrika Bremer visits from Sweden in 1851 to learn about the people of this magical island, she is accompanied by Cecilia, a young slave who longs for her lost home in Africa. Soon Elena, the wealthy daughter of the house, sneaks out to join them. As the three women explore the lush countryside, they form a bond that breaks the barriers of language and culture. In this quietly powerful new book, award-winning poet Margarita Engle paints a portrait of early women's rights pioneer Fredrika Bremer and the journey to Cuba that transformed her life. The Firefly Letters is a 2011 Pura Belpre Honor Book for Narrative and a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

The Firefly Letters

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

West Virginia

A novel about friendship and freedom with compelling characters based on real people from American history. Julia Grant was the wife of US President and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant. Despite her husband's objections, Julia kept as her slave another Julia, known as Jule. Both women risked certain danger as they travelled to and from the field of war. Though Julia secretly taught Jule how to read - while Jule became her vision-impaired mistress's eyes to the world - the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation inspired Jule to make a daring bid for freedom.

Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule

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Nancy Farmer

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Nhamo is a virtual slave in her African village in 1981. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo runs away to escape marriage to a cruel husband, and spends a year going from Zimbabwe to Mozambique. Alone on the river in a stolen boat, swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake, she battles drowning, starvation, wild animals.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arkansas

While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits. A Newbery Honor Book. Reissue.

A Girl Named Disaster

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

In a land where Rome never conquered Britannia, a born slave raised to protect her mistress must confront her conditioning and decide if breaking her bonds of loyalty is worth a taste of freedom.Fear grips the city of Londinium. A killer is on the loose and the authorities are baffled by the lack of clues, but an unlikely duo has picked up the scent and what they find leaves them changed forever.A mistress has fallen in love with her most loyal slave, her protector, her martial. To bed your martial is scandalous. To love them is social suicide. A fact that could bring her and her house to ruin.

The Education of Miss Emlyn Gwen

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#paperback #christian #plantation #pre-civilwar #sheilagillus #romance #slave #fiction box 36

Texas

A Novel

Caroline Whitfield lives in the world she dreamt of as a child. Married to Jackson, a plantation owner, in the quiet hills of 1835 Montgomery County, Maryland, she enjoys a simple life, until new slaves, seven-year-old Sadie and her father, arrive. When Sadie's daddy is taken from her, the young girl is forced to serve the master and mistress she holds responsible for her loss. With her grandmother, fellow slaves in the "Loom Room," and a young man bent on obtaining his freedom, Sadie struggles to make sense of God's will in the midst of pain. But Caroline harbors a secret that could bring her world crashing down, and her love for Sadie, the daughter no one knows she had, threatens to tear it all apart. Meanwhile, Caroline draws closer to an old friend, an empathetic and dependable married man. Now she must douse the raging flames of a jealous husband and fight to keep her perfect world intact.

The Loom

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Monica Kulling

Nevada

The Story of Harriet Tubman

Escape North!

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Harriet Jacobs

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist and reformer. Jacobs wrote an autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent. It was a reworking of the genres of slave narrative and sentimental novel, and was one of the first books to address the struggle for freedom by female slaves, explore their struggles with sexual harassment and abuse and their effort to protect their roles as women and mothers.

After being overshadowed by the American Civil War, the book was rediscovered in the late 20th century, when there was new interest in minority and women writers.

A Must Read Classic for All Those Interested in African American History



Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

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Frederick Douglass

W. L. Garrison

Library stamp on inside page - outside cover has wear from usage 

An American Slave - Written by Himself

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Cover has some wear - library stamp and some notes inside page

A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur

Indiana

He may be the last of a species whose sexual talents were the envy of the galaxy

"I found him in the slave market on Orpheseus Prime, and even on such a god-forsaken planet as that one, their treatment of him seemed extreme."

Cat is an enslaved warrior from a race with a feline gene that gives him awesome beauty, fearsome strength, and sensuality and sexual prowess unmatched by any other males in the universe. Even filthy, chained, and beaten, he gives off an aura of power and virility and his feline gene gives him a special aura.

Jacinth is an intergalactic trader on a rescue mission and she needs a man she can trust with her life.

She has spent years pursuing her kidnapped sister from planet to planet. Now her quest leads her to a place where all the women are slaves. "Jack" needs a slave of her own--one who can masquerade as her master.

Enmeshed in a tangle of deception, lust, and love, they must elude a race of violent killers and together forge a bond stronger than any chains.




The first book in wildly popular Cat Star Chronicles, a paranormal romance series featuring heroes with a feline gene that gives them remarkable sexual powers.

The Cat Star Chronicles:

Slave (Book 1)

Warrior (Book 2)

Rogue (Book 3)

Outcast (Book 4)

Fugitive (Book 5)

Hero (Book 6)

Virgin (Book 7)

Stud (Book 8)

Wildcat (Book 9)

Rebel (Book 10)

Praise for Slave:

"A sexy adventure with a hero you can't resist!"--Candace Havens, author of Charmed & Deadly

"Fascinating world customs, a bit of a mystery, and the relationship between the hero and heroine make this a very sensual romance."-- Romantic Times

Slave

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Ohio

Book One

Humanity has finally defeated the Dark Lord, but Morrick fought on the wrong side. Though he was a slave, he is branded a traitor and must earn the trust of new lords in order to return to his family - if they are still alive... Now that their common enemy is dead, the nobles begin to forget old loyalties, and Queen Cathryn's realm looks set to plunge into war once more. But there are older and more terrible powers dwelling within the forest, and when they are awakened, Morrick will decide who lives or dies. BE A PART OF THIS NEW EPIC FANTASY SERIES FROM THE VERY BEGINNING...

Dark Oak

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The Secret Life of Bees (P)

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Pennsylvania

Uncle Tom's cabin

J. Hecor St. John de Crèvecoeur

Albert E. Stone

Michigan

America’s physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. Letters provides an invaluable view of the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary eras; Sketches details in vivid prose the physical setting in which American settlers created their history. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America

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Arizona

In 1852, when prestigious Alabama plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah--her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be, with ambitions of loving whom she chooses. Sarah equally hides behind the façade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with them to their new home, igniting events that spiral into a tale beyond what you ever imagined possible. Told through the alternating viewpoints of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius' wife, Marlen Suyapa Bodden's The Wedding Gift is an intimate portrait of slavery and the 19th Century South that will leave readers breathless.

The Wedding Gift

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Mary Ray

Alaska

Hylas is young Greek slave in the household of Caius Pomponius, a Roman Senator involved in political schemes. When the senator is found mysteriously murdered, the household slaves (including Hylas and his mother) fall under suspicion. Hylas escapes capture long enough to enlist the aid of a young tribune, Camillus Rufus. The desperate attempt to unravel the threads of the political intrigue carries Camillus into the very presence of Nero and brings Hylas into contact with the new secret sect of Christians. An unique teenage mystery.

The Ides of April

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#paperback #History #Supremecourt #Educational #constitution #Slave

Find out about the events of the Dred Scott case and how one enslaved family's struggle for freedom changed the course of American history.

Dred Scott and the Supreme Court

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Edge wear. Sticker inside. Light underlining. 

California

A Life You'd Rather Not Have

A light-hearted approach to life as a slave in ancient Greece.

You Wouldn't Want to be a Slave in Ancient Greece!

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A True Story of Sex, Manipulation, and Murder

From the authors of the "true crime classic"* Notes on a Killing comes the harrowing story of the games that couples play--and what happens when role-playing becomes a deadly reality.
 
Was murder part of the game?
 
Seventeen-year-old Kat McDonough grew up with theater in her blood--and a penchant for make-believe. More than a decade older, Seth Mazzaglia was well known in the community theater circle of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He, too, had a rich inner life--and he soon had Kat convinced that they were soul mates.
 
To intensify their bond, Seth lured Kat into a world of violent sex and role-playing, where she was his slave. But even that wasn't enough to satisfy his ravenous appetites.
 
Enter Lizzi Marriott, the new girl in town. And when she accepts an invitation to Kat and Seth's apartment, she will never be seen again...


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*Robert Scott, author of The Girl in the Leaves

Dark Heart

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An American Slave

This dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its young author had just achieved his freedom. Douglass' eloquence gives a clear indication of the powerful principles that led him to become the first great African-American leader in the United States.

#nonfiction #religion #adventurestories #africanamerican #truestory #classic #christian #slave #louisiana #texas #art #love


A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

Same Kind of Different as Me

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Paula Fox

Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, 13-year-old Jessie is thrown aboard a slave ship where he is sickened by the horrible practices of the slave business. But they are nothing compared to the one final horror that Jessie will witness. Can the cruelty be stopped before it’s too late?

The Slave Dancer

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Shella Gillus

#paperback #slave #frederickdougless #history #africanamerican #biography #autobiography 

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Margarita Engle

The Firefly Letters

Jennifer Chiaverini

Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule

Nancy Farmer

A Girl Named Disaster

Morgan Potts; Enchanted Ink Publishing (Editor)

The Education of Miss Emlyn Gwen

Shella Gillus

The Loom

Monica Kulling

Escape North!

Harriet Jacobs; Farah Jasmine Griffin

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Lee Wallace

Ben-Hur

Cheryl Brooks

Slave

Jacob Sannox

Dark Oak

Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Life of Bees (P)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's cabin

J. Hecor St. John de Crèvecoeur; Albert E. Stone

Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America

Marlen Suyapa Bodden

The Wedding Gift

Mary Ray

The Ides of April

Daniel Rosen

Dred Scott and the Supreme Court

Fiona MacDonald; Illustrated by David Antram

You Wouldn't Want to be a Slave in Ancient Greece!

Kevin Flynn; Rebecca Lavoie

Dark Heart

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Ron Hall; Denver Moore; Lynn Vincent (As told to)

Same Kind of Different as Me

Paula Fox

The Slave Dancer

Shella Gillus

The Loom

Robert G. O'Meally (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by); Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass