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Summary: "1914, Fiji: 25-year-old police sergeant Akal Singh would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise. After a promising start to his career in his native India and in Hong Kong, he got sent to work in Fiji as punishment for a professional mistake he's too embarrassed to talk about. Lonely and humiliated, Akal longs for the day he can finally solve a big case and win the inspector-general's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAOLin, Judy I.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINMuir, Tamsyn
Summary: Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC MUIProulx, Annie
Summary: In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters -- barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARGrissom, Kathleen.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICharry, Brinda
Summary: "Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company's outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants--boys like himself, men from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHALevine, James
Summary: Sold into sexual slavery as a young girl, fifteen-year-old Batuk spends her days in a cage on Mumbai's child-prostitute district while recording thoughts and stories in a diary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau Paperbacks 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVSaeed, Aisha
Summary: In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAEYe, Chun
Summary: "After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUCarey, Jacqueline
Summary: "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 Phèdre nó Delaunay. He's sworn to celibacy and the blade as surely as she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARJiles, Paulette
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JILLevien, Marissa
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVAvi
Summary: After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2019
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2019Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DRAWick, Lori.
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House 2005