Search Results: Returned 9 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 9
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c1993., 5.2; Ages 3-6, Pleasant Co. Call No: YS POR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The American girls collection Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
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2003., Adults, Bethany House Publishers Call No: FIC PHI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Shenandoah sisters Volume: #1
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2023., Adult, Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: FIC BUR Edition: First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed--and did--as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou is an engaging, action-packed narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that reflects our present in sharp relief. James Lee Burke, whose "evocative prose remains a thing of reliably fierce wonder" (Entertainment Weekly), expertly renders the rich Louisiana landscape, from the sunsets on the Mississippi River to the dingy saloons of New Orleans to the tree-lined shores of the bayou and the cottonmouth snakes that dwell in its depths. Powerful and deeply moving, Flags on the Bayou is a story of tragic acts of war, class divisions upended, and love enduring through it all" --
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2002, c2001., 4.6; Ages 3-6, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: My AmericaSummary Note: A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
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c1994., 4.7; Ages 3-6, Pleasant Call No: YS POR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: American girls collectionSummary Note: In the spring of 1865, Addy finds inspiration from a new friend and chooses a birthday for herself as she and her parents try to shape a new life of freedom in Philadelphia.
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2002., Five Star Call No: FIC SHA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Five Star first edition mystery series
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2017., Adults, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: FIC RIV Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Civil War South comes to vivid life in this electrifying story of a woman's plight and a legacy of deceit that echoes for generations. When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband's three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in the two years he was away? To what extremes can war and violence push a woman who is left to fend for herself? Told through letters, court inquests, and journal entries, this saga, inspired by a true incident, unfolds with gripping intensity, conjuring the era with uncanny immediacy. Amid the desperation of wartime, Placidia sees the social order of her Southern homeland unravel. As she comes to understand how her own history is linked to one runaway slave, her perspective on race and family are upended. A love story, a story of racial divide, and a story of the South as it fell in the war, The Second Mrs. Hockaday reveals how this generation--and the next--began to see their world anew"--
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c2003., Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC PET Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Bells of Lowell Volume: 3Summary Note: Outspoken Daughtie Winfield finds herself in the middle of dissension and upheaval in nineteenth-century Lowell, Massachusetts over working conditions at the mill and unsanitary living conditions for immigrants, and tensions rise as a former employee threatens the future of the textile industry.
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1952., Adult, Dodd, Mead & Company Call No: FIC STO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Relates the trials, suffering and human dignity of Uncle Tom, an old Negro slave, who is cruelly treated by a Yankee overseer resulting in his death.