In this new thriller in the exciting "Moose Jaw Adventure" series from best-selling writer Mary Harelkin Bishop, Andrea Talbot takes an unwilling third trip to the spooky tunnels under Moose Jaw and uncovers the exploitation of Chinese...
Indentured servants
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Author:Harelkin Bishop, MarySummary: - Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Andrea and her ten-year-old brother Tony are drawn into the scary underground of 1920s Moose Jaw to rescue their friends from Mean-Eyed Max and his gang.
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Author:Hur, JuneSummary:1800, Joseon (Korea). Homesick and orphaned, Seol is indentured to the police bureau. She has been tasked with assisting a well-respected young inspector with the investigation into the politically charged murder of a noblewoman. The...
- Author:Graham, GenevieveSummary:
The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caught in a scheme to rid England's streets of destitute children, and the lengths she will go to find her way home—based on the true...
- Author:AviSummary:
In this sequel The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts by Newbery Medalist Avi, Oliver's adventures take him to the 18th century American colonies, where he is forced to fend for himself in the harsh wilderness, live as an...
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Author:Hall, Ron.Summary:Soon to be a Major Motion Picture. A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the worldof Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so...
- Author:Grissom, KathleenSummary:
À la fin du 18e siècle, en Virginie, un terrible secret plane sur une plantation de tabac. Ayant perdu ses parents irlandais lors de sa traversée de l’Atlantique, la petite Lavinia, âgée de sept ans, se retrouve domestique au domaine du...
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Author:Carey, JacquelineSummary:A nation born of angels, vast and intricate and surrounded by danger... a woman born to servitude, unknowingly given access to the secrets of the realm... Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phédre nó Delaunay is sold into...
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Author:Carey, JacquelineSummary:The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt....
- Author:Suranyi, AnnaSummary:
Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or '...
- Author:Wesley, Gloria AnnSummary:
If This Is Freedom continues the story of struggle for Loyalist settlers in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. In the black settlement of Birchtown, times are especially hard for the former slaves. They face the...
- Author:Neelan GovenderSummary:
Girrmit Tales, by Neelan Govender, is a collection of unusual stories of Indian indentured labourers in Natal.
- Author:Saeed, AishaSummary:
"Saeed's timely and stirring middle-grade debut is a celebration of resistance and justice."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review. The compelling story of a girl's fight to regain her life and dreams after being forced...
- Author:Peterson, Tracie, Miller, JudithSummary:
Jasmine Wainwright never expected her father to include her in a deal to sell off the plantation. Moving to Massachusetts as a new wife, she must look to God's grace for help to withstand an unloving husband.
- Author:Rao, NilimaSummary:
1914, Fiji: Akal Singh, 25, would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise-or, as he calls it, "this godforsaken island." After a promising start to his police career in Hong Kong, Akal has been sent to Fiji as punishment for a...
