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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...
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Kitchen house volume 2
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English
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"The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad ... This ... stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only...
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Crown Publishers
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings. Generations later, Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain...
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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Edition
Large print edition.
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English
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"When Alice Sanborn and best friend Jerushah cross paths with a bounty hunter in rural northern Vermont, the teens stage a daring rescue for former slave Sarah Johnson -- but winter weather, politics, and challenges of mountain life bring more danger. It's March 1850 in small-town Vermont, and tempers flare over the "right kind" of Abolition. When the two fifteen-year-olds suspect Alice's older brother William is taking dangerous risks to shelter...
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Center Point Large Print
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
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English
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"Based on the true story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned slave who escaped from Georgia in 1848. By posing as an ailing white man while her husband pretended to be her slave, Ellen and William Craft traveled over one thousand to freedom"--
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Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 2
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Guideposts
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English
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The Inn Crowd is plunged into another mystery when their contractor stumbles across a truck containing an old, tattered quilt in one of the secret rooms that housed runaway slaves; a quilt the matches the description of the River of Life quilt recently stolen from the National Archives.
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Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 3
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Guideposts
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English
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Janice, Tess, and LuAnn are struggling to turn a Ohio mansion, which had served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, into a bed and breakfast. These plans are halted when Janice discovers skeletal human remains, along side an antique photo of a woman and child, inside the mansion.
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Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 4
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Guideposts
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English
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LuAnn, Janice, and Tess have finally turned an old Ohio hotel, which had served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, into a bed and breakfast. However, a broken elevator marred opening day and local handyman, Thorn, has disappeared. LuAnn discovers a valuable Civil-War era bracelet in Thorn's toolbox, which is a part of a long-ago tale of theft, betrayal, and sacrifice.
10) Family secrets
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Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 1
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Guideposts
Language
English
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Three friends purchase a historic hotel in Marietta, Ohio, and learn it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. When strange things begin happening at the inn, an old journal written by former slave and Underground Railroad "conductor", Prudence Willard, may offer shed light on the present-day mysteries at the inn.
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Seven Stories Press
Edition
Bilingual edition, Edición bilingüe.
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English
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Basada en hechos hist?ricos de 1851, esta novela negra occidental narra la lucha de la primera tribu integrada de nativos americanos para establecerse en el continente norteamericano. Despu?s de escapar de los campos de reubicaci?n de Oklahoma en los que hab?an sido colocados luego de su evacuaci?n forzada de Florida, los indios Seminole se unieron con esclavos fugitivos del sur de Estados Unidos para cumplir la visi?n de su l?der, Coyote, de establecer...
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