Filter By Subjects
Crow women Fiction Culture conflict Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Montana Fiction Fugitive slaves United States Fiction Indian traders Fiction Indians of North America History 19th century Fiction Kidnapping Fiction Marriage Fiction Plantation life Southern States Fiction Underground Railroad FictionFilter By Subjects
Crow women Fiction Culture conflict Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Montana Fiction Fugitive slaves United States Fiction Indian traders Fiction Indians of North America History 19th century Fiction Kidnapping Fiction Marriage Fiction Plantation life Southern States Fiction Underground Railroad FictionGrissom, Kathleen.
Summary: "In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house slaves. Though she becomes deeply bonded to her new family, Lavinia is also slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. As time passes she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Books 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Grissom, Kathleen
Summary: In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. Along the way, she finds a fast friend in a Métis named Jeannie; makes a lifelong enemy in a wolfer named Stiller; and despite learning a dark secret of Farwell's past,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Grissom, Kathleen
Summary: "The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad. Published in 2010, The Kitchen House became a grassroots bestseller. Fans connected so deeply to the book's characters that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016