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1) A mercy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare to take risks. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs capital and a well-connected wife. Marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves....
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Named one of the “Most Anticipated Fiction Books of 2018” by the Chicago Review of Books. Named one of the “Best Books of the Summer” by Publishers Weekly “One cant help but wonder why it took so long for this treasure to be translated into English. But it is here now.” Booklist (starred review) “Chamoiseaus prose is astounding in its beauty. . . and he ups the stakes by making this novel a breathtaking thriller, as well.” Publisher...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Booker Prize-winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the Atlantic slave trade the beautiful soul and resilient culture of his country. A boy and a girl meet by chance on a riverbank in Africa. One is the sonof a king, struggling to find his place in the world, the other the daughter of a craftsman from the secretive tribe of master artists. The prince, entranced, stays hidden in the bushes. The girl,...
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