Allende, Isabel.
Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2004
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Summary: In 1860 Louisiana, eighty-year-old Madame Sylvie decides to sit for a portrait, as horrific stories that span generations from the big house and the fields are revealed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILAllende, Isabel.
Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLWelty, Eudora
Summary: A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the family's preparations for her cousin Dabney's wedding. --Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HICPhillips, Michael R.
Summary: "In a new series related to his bestselling Shenandoah sisters, Michael Phillips returns to the post-Civil War South in a story of forgiveness, danger and love"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION PhillipsJones, Edward P.
Summary: Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: Contains three novels on the topics of slavery, romance, and changes in the lifestyles in an old small town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1982
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Summary: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Pub. 2004
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Summary: Presents a fictionalized account of the relationship between George Washington, the first president of the United States, and his wife Martha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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Summary: After her father is killed in the Civil War, Katie works with Mayme, a former slave, to keep the family plantation going, until a long-lost relative appears and threatens to ruin all they have worked for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: A fictionalized account of the relationship between George Washington, the first president of the United States, and his wife Martha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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Summary: Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a novel set in small-town South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2005
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Summary: Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1955
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2003