Author: Barbara Hambly Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0553585657 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 818
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In 1865, in the wake of her husband's assassination, Mary Todd Lincoln struggles to cope amid the animosity and confusion that surrounds her, in a historical novel that captures the saga of one of the most misunderstood women in American history, from her privileged youth in the South to the difficulties of her later years. Reprint.
Author: Barbara Hambly Publisher: ISBN: 9780739450529 Category : Domestic fiction Languages : en Pages : 1049
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A searing and compassionate story of one of the most maligned, and least understood, women in our nation's history: Mary Todd Lincoln.
Author: Ellouise Smith Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595870252 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
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After a tragic boating accident kills the owners of a plantation in the post?Civil War South, their four-year-old daughter, Ellen, is left orphaned. At the reading of the will, black couple Will and Hannah, whose family has lived and worked on the Mitchell plantation for generations, are shocked to learn they have inherited the land and the trusted charge of raising Ellen. Will and Hannah are humbled by the trust the Mitchells had in them, but terrified of the future without their guidance. Despite protests from white landowners, Will and Hannah raise Ellen to adulthood along with their own daughter, Bea. The two young girls grow up without noticing the difference in the color of their skin. They are like sisters-sharing dolls, making mud pies, and picking cotton with the field hands. The girls' differences become more apparent as they reach maturity and their friendship is tested. But Ellen and Bea cling to the strength of Will and Hannah to see them through the trials and tribulations, eventually finding their own happiness through love, marriage, and family.
Author: Anthony Usher Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1682137589 Category : History Languages : en Pages :
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The slave masters of the twenty-first century are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to perpetuate poverty and slavery in America, rather than to end it, and are enraged against those who break into their strongholds and start liberating those they are intentionally enslaving. The book introduces some prominent emancipators in American history from President Lincoln all the way to President Obama; climaxing with the Greatest Emancipator of all times and also assures readers that one day all mankind will be free at last. Are you ready?" Read The Emancipators, From Lincoln to Obama, published by Page Publishers and is available through the publisher’s Web site www.pagepublishing.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or local bookstores by request; and at Apple iBooks, and Google Play.
Author: Barbara Hambly Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0307785300 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 434
Book Description
In A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust, Benjamin January penetrated the murkiest corners of glittering old New Orleans to bring murderers to justice. Now, in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he explores a vivid and violent plantation world darker than anything in the city.... Sold Down the River. The crisp autumn air of 1834 awakens the French Town to a new season of balls and operas. But this November there will be no waltzes played by Benjamin January, no piano lessons for Creole children. For a shadow has emerged from his past-Simon Fourchet, the savage man to whom he was bound in slavery until the age of seven. When someone he cannot refuse asks the favor, Benjamin reluctantly agrees to reenter the realm of his childhood on Fourchet's upriver sugar plantation. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, Benjamin sets out to uncover who and what lies behind the sinister happenings there. On All Souls' night, at the dark of the moon, a fire was started in the mill. A field gang's food has been poisoned and the butler murdered. And voodoo curse marks appear everywhere. If the villain cannot be discovered, every slave on Mon Triomphe will be condemned to what passes for justice. Cutting cane from dawn to nightfall, until his bones ache and his musician's hands bleed, Benjamin strives to unlock the riddle. Are these the omens of a slave revolt, or something more personal? As acts of sabotage mount and voodoo signs multiply, he ponders the family in the big house: Fourchet's pale and pious new wife, his two grown sons, and his shrewish daughter-in-law. Then the inhabitants of the slave quarters: a proud and secretive cook, young lovers torn apart by a brutal overseer, men and women who long for loved ones sold away. And what of the neighboring planter, feuding with Fourchet over a piece of land... or the elusive river trader who knows so many of the servants' secrets? Somewhere in the warp and weft of these people's lives lurks Benjamin's quarry-whose scheming could destroy not just Fourchet but all his kin and every human being he owns. And Benjamin January must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer, before he finds himself... Sold Down the River.
Author: Barbara Hambly Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0307785289 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
Benjamin January made his debut in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color, a haunting mélange of history and mystery. Now he returns in another novel of greed, madness, and murder amid the dark shadows and dazzling society of old New Orleans, named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. The summer of 1833 has been one of brazen heat and brutal pestilence, as the city is stalked by Bronze John—the popular name for the deadly yellow fever epidemic that tests the healing skills of doctor and voodoo alike. Even as Benjamin January tends the dying at Charity Hospital during the steaming nights, he continues his work as a music teacher during the day. When he is asked to pass a message from a runaway slave to the servant of one of his students, January finds himself swept into a tempest of lies, greed, and murder that rivals the storms battering New Orleans. And to find the truth he must risk his freedom...and his very life.
Author: Tracy Winegar Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1623422442 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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After experiencing the perils of fighting as a soldier in the Civil War, Serena Barlow now faces something far more frightening. She must return to the beginning—a home she did her best to leave behind. Without Sam she is left to confront the past: the painful memories of Caleb’s loss, a mother she hardly knows, a father whom she has deceived sorely, and, worse yet, a father-in-law who knows her secret. Impending motherhood overwhelms her even more, and without Sam at her side, she hardly knows who she is anymore. When word comes that Sam has been captured and is wasting away in the squalid conditions of Libby Prison, Serena can wait no more. She decides she must take action to save him, and leaving everything dear to her behind, she makes her way to the capital of the Confederacy—Richmond, Virginia. Deep within enemy territory, Serena begins to wonder how far she will go to save the man she loves. Time is running out for Sam. Can she find a way to rescue him before it’s too late?
Author: Barbara Hambly
Author: Barbara Hambly
Author: Ellouise Smith
Author: Anthony Usher
Author: Barbara Hambly
Author: Barbara Hambly
Author: Tracy Winegar
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Author: Shama Churun Sircar
Author: Shama Churun Sircar