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Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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When faith and restoration are common ground, can the attraction between two people grow from a whisper of understanding into a proclamation of love?
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Series
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English
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"In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house slaves. Though she becomes deeply bonded to her new family, Lavinia is also slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. As time passes she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds...
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House of Winslow volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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The Indentured Heart opens another chapter in the compelling House of Winslow. While in England, Adam Winslow rescues Molly Burns from her abusive father and brings her to America, where Molly becomes his indentured servant. A young girl, a family, and a new nation are bound together in their search for freedom.
4) Amal unbound
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Life is quiet and ordinary in Amal's Pakistani village, but she had no complaints, and besides, she's busy pursuing her dream of becoming a teacher one day. Her dreams are temporarily dashed when--as the eldest daughter--she must stay home from school to take care of her siblings. Amal is upset, but she doesn't lose hope and finds ways to continue learning. Then the unimaginable happens--after an accidental run-in with the son of her village's corrupt...
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Hagenheim volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1352 England, seventeen-year-old Annabel, granddaughter of a knight and a would-be nun, eludes a lecherous bailiff but falls in love with Lord Le Wyse, the ferocious and disfigured man to whom her family owes three years of indentured servitude, in this tale loosely based on Beauty and the Beast.
7) Starfinder
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English
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This passionate historical romance featuring the second generation of the Sutherland family sweeps from the Scottish Highlands to colonial Maryland, where a struggling young woman makes a desperate bargain with a freedom fighter Minutes before being hanged for treason against the British crown, Ian Sutherland is suddenly spared . . . only to end up in chains again, this time in the hold of a ship bound for the colonies. In America, he becomes the...
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English
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"'What Difference Di It Make?' beautifully showcases God's ability to work through even the most awkward and painful circumstances to bring forth amazing and redemptive changes. Deeply moving but never sappy or sentimental, it answers its own question with a simple and enphatic answer. What difference can one person (or two) make in the world? A lot!" -- back cover.
10) A bound heart
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English
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"Their stations could not have been more different: a Scottish laird and a simple lass. When a tragedy forces both to colonial Virginia as indentured servants, can a love thwarted by tradition come to life in a new land?" --
Magnus MacLeish and Lark MacDougall grew up on the same castle grounds. Magnus is now laird of the great house and the Isle of Kerrera; Lark is but the keeper of his bees and the woman he is hoping will provide a tincture that...
11) Wild conquest
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English
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"Pleasance Dunstan is used to silently bearing the cruelties put upon her by her thoughtless family. But nothing can prepare her for the greatest indignity of all: being sold into servitude to a man as wild as Tearlach O'Duine. His untamed ways are whispered of thoughout town, and he has set his sights on Pleasance to be more than his servant. He will have her in his bed. Pleasance could escape this fate with a word, but her fierce pride keeps her...
12) Copper sun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Two fifteen-year-old girls -- one a slave and the other an indentured servant -- escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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English
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"In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position...
14) Uprooted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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"Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale. "Every so often you come upon a story that seems like a lost tale of Grimm newly come to light. Uprooted is such a novel. Its narrative spell is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. I might even call it bewitching."--Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old musician Xue faces a lifetime of servitude until Duke Meng offers her freedom in exchange for serving as a musician in residence, but Xue soon discovers the Duke is a celestial ruler with ulterior motives and she must unlock her past to prevent an impending war in the Six Realms.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen years on the streets of Dallas, Texas. No longer a slave, Denver's life was still hopeless, until God moved. First came a godly woman who prayed, listened, and obeyed. And then came her husband, Ron, an international arts dealer at home in a world of Armani-suited millionaires. And then they all came...
17) Mariah's quest
Author
Series
Daughters of Harwood House volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An indentured servant sets her sights for a tobacco plantation owner's son. Will her plans go up in smoke when he becomes blind to her beauty?
18) A Stolen Life
Author
Publisher
McElderry Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by "spiriters" and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a Virginia planter.
19) Bound
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Alice Cole spent her first seven years living in two smoky, crowded rooms in London with her family. But a new home and a better life waited in the colonies, or so her father promised--a bright dream that turned to ashes when her brothers and mother took ill and died during the arduous voyage. Arriving in colonial New England unable to meet the added expenses incurred by their misfortunes at sea, her father bound Alice into servitude to pay his debts....
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