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Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave "assets", possibly including Emma.
4) Dark watch
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Juan Cabrillo and his crew aboard the Oregon take on modern-day pirates for a surprising new client in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of
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Cross. Now streaming on Prime Video.
In this thrilling novel from a New York Times bestselling author, Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered: a predator known only as the Wolf.
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues baffled. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely....
In this thrilling novel from a New York Times bestselling author, Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered: a predator known only as the Wolf.
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues baffled. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely....
6) African Town
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Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
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In 1786, thirteen-year-old Alma lives in an isolated African valley with her family, but her life is turned upside down when her little brother finds a way out of the valley. Alma embarks on a journey to track him down and finds herself thrust into the dangerous world of the slave trade that has consumed the continent of Africa. In Lisbon, Joseph Mars manages to sneak onboard the slave ship, "The Sweet Amelie," in search of pirate treasure, but he...
10) Middle passage
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A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.