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Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This powerful, erotic sequel to "Kushiel's Dart" continues Carey's Kusheil's Legacy series. When she stumbles on a plot that threatens the very foundation of her homeland, Phedre will give up almost everything she holds dear to save it.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
This is a story of Cot Daley, a young girl kidnapped from her home in Galway, Ireland, and shipped out to Barbados, where more than fifty thousand Irish sold as indentured servants to the plantation owners of the Caribbean worked the land alongside African slaves. Most of them would never see their families again.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It begins in the highlands of Scotland in 1746, at the Battle of Culloden, the last desperate stand of the Stuart 'pretender' to the throne of the Three Kingdoms, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and his rabidly loyal supporters. Vanquished with his comrades by the forces of the Hanoverian (and Protestant) British crown, the novel's eponymous hero, Jamie MacGillivray, narrowly escapes a roadside execution only to be recaptured by the victors and shipped to...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
The story of four indentured servants in Czarist Russia in 1853 who escape and travel to freedom by canoe. In 1853, four Scandinavian indentured laborers in Russian Alaska steal a canoe and begin to paddle south toward the mouth of the Columbia River, twelve hundred miles away.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In fifty years, Myrra will be free. Until then, she's a contract worker. Ever since she was five, her life and labor have belonged to the highest bidder on her contract-butchers, laundries, and now the powerful, secretive Carlyles. But when one night finds the Carlyles dead, Myrra is suddenly free a lot sooner than she anticipated-and at a cost she never could have imagined. Burdened with the Carlyles' orphaned daughter and the terrible secret they...
Author
Series
Kushiel's legacy volume 1
Publisher
Tor fantasy
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A nation born of angels, vast and intricate and surrounded by danger... a woman born to servitude, unknowingly given access to the secrets of the realm... Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phédre nó Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, the arts of pleasure. And above all, the ability to observe, remember,...
10) Black flower
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A tale of star-crossed love, political turmoil, and the dangers of seeking freedom in a new world, Black Flower is an epic story based on a little-known moment in history.
Author
Series
Kushiel's legacy volume 10
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Kushiel's Dart, a daring young courtesan uncovered a plot to destroy her beloved homeland. But hers is only half the tale. Now see the other half of the heart that lived it. Cassiel's Servant is a retelling of cult favorite Kushiel's Dart from the point of view of Joscelin, Cassiline warrior-priest and protector of Ph�edre n�o Delaunay. He's sworn to celibacy and the blade as surely as she's pledged to pleasure, but the gods they serve have...
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