Powers, Kevin

Summary: A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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Phillips, 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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Clarke, Austin

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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2003

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Haines, Carolyn.

Summary: Sarah Booth Delaney is both a Southern lady and a skilled detective, but her latest case takes her into the murky world of New Orleans where motives for murder, and a list of suspects, are numerous.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004

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Boyd, Natasha

Summary: The story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who ran her father's plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina in the 1700s and struck a bargain with the plantation's slaves--teach her how to make indigo and she would teach them to read.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Stone Publishing 2017

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Deutermann, Peter T.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009

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Ducharme, Diann.

Summary: Falling in love with penniless fisherman Ben, who she tutors in exchange for his services for her father, Reconstruction-era plantation mistress Abigail Sinclair is devastated when Ben becomes entangled in her father's illicit Ku Klux Klan activities.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010

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Santiago, Esmeralda.

Summary: "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 Leon. And in twin brothers Ramon and Inocente, both in love with Ana, she finds a way to get there: she marries Ramon and convinces the brothers that their destiny is in the remote sugar plantation they have inherited on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011

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Haines, Carolyn.

Summary: Displaced from it's New Orleans venue, a red-hot touring production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is opening right in the heart of Zinnia, and featuring hunky star Graf Mileau! Sarah Booth, who had her own brief stint with Mileau, is less than thrilled. Graf is now linked with his costar, Renata Troviola, a dyed in the wool diva who plans to ride Graf's coattails all the way to Hollywood. But...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2008

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Jones, 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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Gist, Deeanne.

Summary: "Set in 1640's Colonial Virginia, a marriage of convenience becomes most inconvenient when the bride proves more than the planter had bargained for"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2005

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Peart, Jane.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Pub. House 1998

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Hicks, Robert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005

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Hicks, Robert

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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005

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Curtis, Christopher Paul

Summary: When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

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