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  Wench

  by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

  "A striking debut intimately limns a Southern slave's complicated relationship with her master. . . . Compelling and unsentimental." (Kirkus Reviews ) "This elegantly-structured novel, Dolen Perkins-Valdez presents an engrossing subject, shedding much-needed light on the racial intricacies of America's past." (Margaret Cezair-Thompson, author of The Pirate's Daughter (a #1 Indie Next Pick) ) "In her debut,... (more)
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  Conquistadora

  by Esmeralda Santiago

  A gorgeous epic of love, discovery, and adventure by the beloved author of When I Was Puerto Rican. Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there: she marries Ramón and convinces the brothers... (more)
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  Blakewell/Kenleigh Family: Book 1

  Sweet Release

  by Pamela Clare

  For five pounds in cash, the convict was hers. Though Cassie hated the slave trade, her Virginia plantation demanded the labor, and she knew this fevered man would surely die if she left him. But as his wounds healed and his muscled chest bronzed from the sun, Cassie realized Cole Braden was far more dangerous than his papers had indicated--for he could steal her breath, with a glance or lay siege to her senses... (more)
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  Roses

  by Leila Meacham

  Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families. Cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick should have married but unwisely did not, and now must deal with the deceit, secrets, and tragedies of their choice and the loss of... (more)
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  Pirates!

  The True and Remarkable Stories of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, Female Pirates

  by Celia Rees

  Nancy Kington, daughter of a rich merchant, suddenly orphaned when her father dies, is sent to live on her family's plantation in Jamaica. Disgusted by the treatment of the slaves and her brother's willingness to marry her off, she and one of the slaves, Minerva, run away and join a band of pirates. For both girls the pirate life is their only chance for freedom in a society where both are treated like property,... (more)
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  The Wedding Gift

  by Marlen Suyapa Bodden

  When wealthy plantation owner Cornelius Allen marries off his daughter Clarissa, he presents her with a wedding gift: a young slave woman called Sarah. It just so happens that Sarah is Allen’s daughter as well, the product of a long-term sexual relationship with his slave Emmeline. When Clarissa’s husband rejects her newborn son as illegitimate and sends Clarissa and Sarah back to the Allens, their return sets in... (more)
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  Lowcountry Summer

  A Plantation Novel

  by Dorothea Benton Frank

  Dorothea Benton Frank is a native of the South whose novels vividly capture the wild beauty, laid-back atmosphere, earthy characters, and charming eccentricities of life in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Written with compelling honesty and emotional depth, her stories have touched readers from coast to coast, and propelled her to the top ranks of bestsellerdom nationwide. Now this remarkable writer revisits some... (more)
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  Gone With the Wind

  by Margaret Mitchell

  Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so... (more)
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  Blue Moon

  by C. D. Ledbetter

  A run-down Louisiana plantation that feels strangely familiar... A Blue Moon Voodoo ceremony that results in a disturbing vision about the plantation’s former owners, Jean-Pierre and Magdalene Laroussard, who mysteriously disappeared over a hundred years ago... An apparition begging for help... Promises from a local Voodoo cult that seem more like threats... Despite the danger, Mary Corbett is... (more)
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  The Loom

  by Shella Gillus

  A slave owner’s wife harbors a secret that threatens to unravel her marriage and the lives of those around her. 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... (more)
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  Veil of Pearls

  by M. L. Tyndall

  Be swept away to Charleston of 1811, a city bustling with immigrants like Adalia, who is a runaway slave so light-skinned that no one guesses her past. Terrified her secret will be discovered, she settles into a quiet life making herbal remedies for a local doctor. But when Morgan, the handsome son of a prominent family, sweeps her into his glamorous world—a world in which the truth about Adalia’s heritage would... (more)
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  Hamakua Hero

  by Patsy Y. Iwasaki, Art by Berido

  Written and illustrated in manga style is the true story of Katsu Goto, a Japanese man who journeyed to Hawaii seeking a better life as a plantation worker. This book illustrates the racial and cultural problems Japanese immigrants such as Katsu Goto faced in the plantations. It is a powerfully poignant biography about Katsu Goto s life and the injustices he and his countrymen faced in their years of work in... (more)
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  The Cutting Season

  by Attica Locke

  'Attica Locke is a stand-out in every way' (James Ellroy) 'Locke has an extraordinary gift' (Guardian) 'Akin to George Pelecanos or Dennis Lehane' (New York Times) 'The upper stratum of crime fiction' (Financial Times)"
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  Beulah Land

  by Lonnie Coleman

  THE TREMENDOUSLY ENGROSSING SAGA OF A GREAT GEORGIA PLANTATION IN ITS GOLDEN AGE, AND OF THE MEN AND WOMEN, WHITE AND BLACK, WHO WERE BORN AND DIED THERE, KNEW EVERY PAIN AND PLEASURE, VIRTUE AND VICE.
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  The Letter Writer

  by Ann Rinaldi

  Eleven-year-old Harriet Whitehead is an outsider in her own family. She feels accepted and important only when she is entrusted to write letters for her blind stepmother. Then Nat Turner, a slave preacher, arrives on her family’s plantation and Harriet befriends him, entranced by his gentle manner and eloquent sermons about an all-forgiving God. When Nat asks Harriet for a map of the county to help him spread the... (more)
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  Until Tomorrow

  by Jill Marie Landis

  Alone on her Kansas homestead, Cara James passed the time making rag dolls--and dreamed of a better life in California.Traveling home from the Civil War, Dake Reed came across an ambushed wagon--and a newborn baby in need of care.Bringing the child to the first house he found across the lonely prairie, Dake turned to Cara--a backwoods young woman who lived by her grandma's sayings and her... (more)
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  The Widow of the South

  by Robert Hicks

  Reminiscent of Cold Mountain and Enemy Women, this is a gripping novel based on the incredible true story of a woman whose life was changed forever by the Civil War. In 1894, Carrie McGavock is an old woman, an old woman who has only her former slave to keep her company...along with the almost 1,500 soldiers buried in her backyard. Years ago, rather than let someone plow over the field where these young men had... (more)
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  Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-nineteenth-century South

  by William Kauffman Scarborough

  William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful groups in American history—the wealthiest southern planters who owned 250 or more slaves in the census years of 1850 and 1860. The identification and tabulation in every slaveholding state of these lords of economic, social, and political influence reveals a highly learned... (more)
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  Just Imagine

  by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Originally published as Risen Glory.The War Between the States may be over for the rest of the country, but not for Kit Weston. Disguised as a boy, she's come to New York City to kill Baron Cain, the man who stands between her and Risen Glory, the South Carolina home she loves. But unknown to Kit, the Yankee war hero is more than her most bitter enemy -- he's also her guardian. And he'll be a lot harder... (more)
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  Always And Forever (Zebra Debut)

  by Gretchen Craig

  Set against a fascinating backdrop of 1830s Louisiana, Always and Forever is a sweeping saga of a Creole-American family and of two remarkable women whose friendship will be tested by prejudice, tragedy, passion, and the love of one extraordinary man. Since they were children running barefoot about Toulouse Plantation, Josie and Cleo have been as close as sisters, forging an unbreakable bond that... (more)