Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow."-- Scott Sigler Pierce Brown' s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender' s Game by Orson Scott Card. " I live for the dream that my...
Slavery
- Author:Brown, PierceSummary:
- Author:Jones, GaylSummary:
A New York Times "Biggest New Books Coming Out in September" Selection · A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick · A Guardian "50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021" Selection · An Esquire "Best Books of Fall 2021" Selection · A...
- Author:Sutcliff, RosemarySummary:
Fifteen-year-old Beric feels increasingly bitter isolation when, because of his Roman birth, he is cast out by the Celtic tribe that raised him and, after reaching a Roman settlement, he is sold into slavery and sentenced to serve in a...
- Author:Ford, Clyde W.Summary:
Clyde W. Ford tells the story of how Black labor helped to create and sustain the wealth of the white one percent throughout American history.
- Author:Sanderson, BrandonSummary:
"Character development is at the heart of the book, and it is here that Kramer and Reading shine, with remarkably consistent and multifaceted characters that fuel the action of the story...Adept pacing highlights both the intensity of...
- Author:Whitfield, Harvey AmaniSummary:
Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring escaped slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, many Loyalist families brought slaves with them when they...
- Author:Ayres, KatherineSummary:
Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
- Author:McKissack, PatSummary:
In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
- Author:Dunbar, Erica ArmstrongSummary:
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave who risked it all to...
- Author:Taussig, Michael T.Summary:
In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast....
- Author:Johnson, CharlesSummary:
Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave from an Illinois farm, travels to New Orleans only to discover that nothing but misery awaits him in the big city. Sitting on a pier as he contemplates his life, he decides the sea holds his...
- Author:Nielsen, Jennifer A.Summary:
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing the lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds much more than gold and gemstones: He discovers an ancient bulla, an amulet that belonged to the...
- Author:Hite, AnnSummary:
A haunting historical novella, Lowcountry Spirit tells the story of three slave girls with mystical powers living on an eerie island off the coast of Georgia. Their lives intertwine when Liza, in possession of a book of conjures for...
- Author:Johnson, Keith Lee.Summary:
The fifth in the series picks up where the fourth book left off by continuing the diary of Josephine Baptiste. As more details about Josephine's past come to light, the African heritage of modern-day Johnnie Wise is further explained....
- Author:Kaplan, FredSummary:
From acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan comes this exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints. He provides both perceptive insights into these two great...
- Author:Butler, Octavia E.Summary:
Dana, a modern African-American woman, is is snatched abruptly from her home in 1976 California and transported to the antebellum South in order to save the life of a white slave owner.
- Juneteenth : The history and legacy of the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the southAuthor:Editors, Charles RiverSummary:
Inevitably, for many across the South, the news of the Emancipation Proclamation arrived slowly, and in other locales, the new was withheld entirely, sometimes by years. Slaveowners were not simply going to give up slaves, and in the...
- Author:Davis, David BrionSummary:
David Brion Davis is recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world. His books have won such awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight,...
- Author:Thomas, Kai.Summary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-...