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"When Adebimpe is ten, she is sold with her mother, Sanite, to plantation owner John du Marche. He soon renames her Ady but Sanite never lets her daughter forget who she really is - a person who can read and write and understand numbers. Most importantly, Sanite reminds Ady that she must never reveal these abilities to a white person, especially not her true name. Tasked with maintaining du Marche's home in vibrant New Orleans, Ady takes in the city...
2) Violeta
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Penguin Random House Grupo Ed
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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La épica y emocionante historia de una mujer cuya vida abarca los momentos históricos más relevantes del siglo XX.Desde 1920 -con la llamada «gripe española»- hasta la pandemia de 2020, la vida de Violeta será mucho más que la historia de un siglo.Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios,...
3) African Town
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2022
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English
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Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.Cover may vary.In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along...
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From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander, comes the first book in a searing, breathtaking trilogy that tells the story of a boy, a village, and the epic odyssey of an African family.
In his village in Upper Kwanta, 11-year-old Kofi loves his family, playing oware with his grandfather and swimming in the river Offin. He’s warned though, to never go to the river at night.
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Greening & Co., Limited
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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In Spain the Carnival does not finish, as in France, at eight o’clock on the morning of Ash Wednesday. Over the wonderful gaiety of Seville the memory that “dust we are,” etc., spreads its odour of sepulture for four days only, and the first Sunday of Lent all the Carnival reawakens.
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Bradbury, Evans, and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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To have entered, more fully than I have done, into the events and fighting prior to the Retreat from Cabul, would have proved unsuitable for the purpose of my story, and for these events I must refer the reader to history or the newspapers of the time.
An officer of the Queen's 44th Regiment escaped death in the Khyber Pass in the mode narrated in its place, by wrapping the regimental colour round him; and strange and varied as the adventures of...
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Bradbury, Evans, and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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To have entered, more fully than I have done, into the events and fighting prior to the Retreat from Cabul, would have proved unsuitable for the purpose of my story, and for these events I must refer the reader to history or the newspapers of the time.
An officer of the Queen's 44th Regiment escaped death in the Khyber Pass in the mode narrated in its place, by wrapping the regimental colour round him; and strange and varied as the adventures of...
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T.C. & E.C. Jack LTD.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Once upon a time, in a country not far from Fairyland, there lived a king and queen and their daughter, whose name was Una.
Una was one of the most beautiful princesses that ever were seen, and she was as good as she was beautiful.
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James Munroe and Company
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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... Every tale is based upon certain ideas, which are its life-blood. Of late, fiction has become the channel by which the topics most in the thought of the age, or which bear directly upon its welfare, reach most readily the popular mind. But few authors, however, can count upon many readers, and I am not one of them. Still what a man has to say to the public, should be his earnest thought frankly told. No one has a monopoly of wisdom. The most gifted...
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J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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James Edward Le Rossignol (24 October 1866 – 4 December 1959) was a Canadian-born American professor of economics with a particular interest in socialism, and also the author of several works of fiction with settings in Quebec.
James Edward Le Rossignol was born on 24 October 1866 in Quebec City, the son of Peter Le Rossignol and Mary (Gillispie) Le Rossignol. His father was born on the Jersey Channel Islands. He was educated at the Montreal High...
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William Blackwood and Sons
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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John Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of the seminal, and much-admired, seven-volume biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott.
Between 1818 and 1825 Lockhart worked indefatigably. In 1819 Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk appeared, and in 1822 he edited Peter Motteux's edition of Don Quixote, to which he prefixed a life...
14) Giannella
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Herder
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Mary Crawford Fraser (April 8, 1851 – 1922), usually known as Mrs. Hugh Fraser, was a writer noted for her various memoirs and historical novels.- Wikipedia
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CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Sagas : Tháttr of Nornagest. Tháttr of Sörli. Saga of Hromund Greipsson. Saga of Hervor and Heithrek. Appendix : The combat at Samsø and Hjalmar's death song.-- Ballads : Gríplur I. Ballad of Arngrim's sons. Gátu rima. Hildina.
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J.M. Dent & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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This book weaves together tales of the exciting life of Feargus, son of the Pictish leader Nechtan, chosen by King Penda of Mercia to help establish hegemony among the numerous smaller fiefdoms that warred in the Midlands of England during the 7th century. Mercia was the first great British state, that "flourished briefly before the Anglo Saxon and Norse invasions, and "gave the mental and moral background to the English people." [Sources: Wikipedia,...
17) Phœbe
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GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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“Dear little daughter,” ran the telegram, “when you get this, fill a suit-case with a few things that you’ll need most, and leave with Daddy for Grandma’s.—Mother.”
Eleanor Gates (26 September 1874 – 7 March 1951) was an American playwright who created seven plays that were staged on Broadway. Her best known work was the play The Poor Little Rich Girl, which was produced by her husband in 1913 and went on to be made as films for Mary...
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ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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DO you know the joyous feeling of opening your eyes on the first morning after your arrival among new scenes, and of seeing the landscape, which has been shrouded by darkness on the previous evening, lying clear and calm in the bright morning sunlight?
This was Blanche Clifford's experience as she stood at an eastward window, with an eager face, straining her eye across miles of moorland, which undulated far away, like purple seas lying in the golden...
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Rudd & Carleton
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Guerrazzi was born in the seaport of Livorno, then part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He studied law at the university of Pisa, graduating in 1824. He began to practice in Livorno, but soon gave up law in favour of politics and literature, being particularly influenced by Byron, to whom he dedicated his "Stanze" (1825). His first novel, La Battaglia di Benevento was published in 1827.- Wikipedia
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J.B. Lippincott Company
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Foreword:
It has taken Americans to build the Panama Canal, and it took the Americans to build California. These are two great feats of which we Americans of the United States may well be proud: the building of that canal, in the strange tropics 2000 miles away across the water, and the up-rearing of a mighty State, under equally strange conditions, 2000 miles away across plains and mountains.
On the Isthmus men of many nationalities combined like...
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