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1) Tiger Hills
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century southern India, Devi Nachimada falls in love with Machu, a daring tiger hunter, and in the process endangers her friendship with a motherless boy, Devanna, thus setting the stage for a devastating tragedy.
Author
Series
Irish angel volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
When Colin forces Kate to promise his dying sister that together they will care for his niece and nephew, she complies. Having been orphaned herself, Kate realizes she must put the children's welfare above her own-- even if it means a marriage of convenience. Can her persistent love and faith transform their uncertain future?
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2005
Description
An eclectic array of well-drawn characters chronicle the sometimes torrential swiftness, sometimes trickling slowness of change through generations. At the story's heart is Henry Detroit, owner of Longbrow Plantation -- now on his deathbed as the 1960s come to a close. Around him swirl servants, retainers, workers, and family, all gathered to preside over his death, and the death of life, as they know it in the South. The book moves back and forth...
Author
Formats
Description
Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan -- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados, a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned. When...
8) Selah
Author
Series
Sugar baron's daughters volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"When a Methodist preacher, called to serve slaves in the West Indies, settles at Selah's family plantation, their shared purpose brings them together - despite her guardians' concern over a romance that promises little security. As the Revolutionary War and starvation looms in the States, the future hangs in the balance"--Provided by publisher.
1776. Selah Banning came of age on the West Indies island of Nevis, on her father's sugar plantation....
11) Antebellum
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
13) Holly
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
"Last summer, Holly met Nick after running her car into his truck on a dark, country road. Blindsided by her attraction for him, she ignored the fact that he was her parent's farm manager and enjoyed what was, in her mind, a summer fling. But now that she's returned home for Christmas, how long will it be before she learns that the handsome heartthrob she's tried in vain forget is wealthy Dr. Nick Taggert?"--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners. On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys--as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself--have decided to turn around the farm's bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a "stockman"...
15) Sweetgrass
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2005
Description
The New York Times–bestselling author paints an intimate portrait of a family's struggle to come together and protect their historic South Carolina home.
Sweetgrass is a historic tract of land in South Carolina that has been home to the Blakely family for eight generations. But Sweetgrass-named for the indigenous grass that grows in the area-is in trouble. Taxes are skyrocketing. Bulldozers are leveling the surrounding properties. And the Blakelys...
16) Antebellum
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
17) The long song
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, following the trials, tribulations and survival of July and her odious mistress Caroline on a sugar plantation.
Author
Series
Bregdan chronicles volume 15
Publisher
Bregdan Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Another chapter in the lives of Carrie, Janie, Rose and Moses, Florence Robinson, and Felicia as they work to rebuild their lives in Virginia during the United States' Reconstruction.
Author
Series
Bregdan chronicles volume 17
Publisher
Bregdan Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"America continues the struggle to become a country for everyone ... When chaos swirls through America, can hope be renewed by dawn? Moses and Rose are pulled into drama erupting in South Carolina. When it spills over to the plantation, will their family grow? Racial tensions boil over into violence and murder during the Philadelphia elections. Carrie, Janie and Florence join hands with the clinic to work together once more. Peter's trip to a journalism...
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