Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa, a place of trade caravans, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURSummary: Once upon a time in China: The legendary martial arts teacher Wong Fei-hung, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces--foreign and local--who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN ONC1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD FOREIGN ONC
O'Neill, Joe
Summary: "When Tariq is captured from his safe life in a Tangier orphanage and sold into slavery as a camel jockey, his adventures begin. Along with his new friends Aseem, Margaret and Fez, Tariq gets sold to the tyrant Caid Ali Tamzali - entering a dangerous world of deceit and violence. Forced to compete in deadly camel races, and suffer the abuse of his slave master, Tariq must rely on his wits and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Ship Publishing 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC O'NELatham, Irene
Summary: Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LATHambly, Barbara.
Summary: Benjamin January's search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers in 1838 New Orleans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMSummary: Ossei is a strong-willed young man who sets out to rescue his mother when their village is raided. His quest leads him to the stronghold of the dreaded King Adanggaman, an arrogant despot who thrives on the slave trade and uses fierce female warriors to enforce his power. One of these Amazons, herself a former slave, falls in love with Ossei, and they escape to the bush.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADACussler, Clive.
Summary: Juan 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 assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CUSShepherd, Lloyd.
Summary: London, 1811. The twisting streets of riverside Wapping hold many an untold sin. Bounded by the Ratcliffe Highway to the north and the modern wonders of the Dock to the south, shameful secrets are largely hidden by the noise and glory of Trade. But two families have fallen victim to foul murder, and a terrified populace calls for justice. John Harriott, magistrate of the new Thames River Police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEFox, Paula.
Summary: Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FOXHarris, Lisa
Summary: Deep in the heart of Africa, two American lives are about to change forever. Natalie Sinclair and Dr. Chad Talcott want to make a difference in underdeveloped African villages ... but they didn't count on risking their lives in the process.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARWoodman, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOPatterson, James
Summary: At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Faye, Lyndsay.
Summary: In 1846 New York six months after the formation of the NYPD, officer Timothy Wilde investigates a ring of "blackbirders" who kidnap free people of color in the North and sell them to Southern plantations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books, G. P. Putnams Sons 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAYBeecroft, Alex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEEPatterson, James
Summary: At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATSpecter, Baron
Summary: Jared Jensen is being pursued by a pair of ghostly graverobbers, and he and his friends, the Zombie Hunters, need to find a solution before Jared himself is turned into a ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SPEBlade, Adam
Summary: "One boy's journey to help his village becomes a quest to save the kingdom. Strange things are happening in Tom's village. First, the horses were attacked. Then, the river dried up. Now, the last of the crops has mysteriously burned. Everyone is terrified. But Tom isn't afraid. He's always dreamed of a quest -- a real quest! -- and vows to go to the king and bring help for them. But Tom soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the life of William Wilberforce, his passion, and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th Century, and the people, including his minister, who pushed him to pursue it to the end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Amazing 2007Summary: Follow the exploits of Paul Pennyfeather, whose unfair expulsion from Oxford kick-starts a disastrous series of events, wherein he is by turn a naive teacher, a celebrity bridegroom, a wanted fugitive, and an international white slave-trader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DECBlade, Adam.
Summary: Tom must free the magical beasts of Avantia from an evil spell. Armed with a sword and shield from the Wizard Aduro, Tom sets off to face Arcta the mountain giant. Can Tom save his land from destruction?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BLAPryor, Mark
Summary: It's summer in Paris and two tourists have been murdered in Père Lachaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison's grave. The cemetery is locked down and put under surveillance, but the killer returns, flitting in and out like a ghost, and breaks into the crypt of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. In a bizarre twist, he disappears under the cover of night with part of her skeleton. One of the dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRYPilkey, Dav
Summary: George and Harold have been turned into evil zombie nerds. Unfortunately, the boys can't count on Captain Underpants for help because Tippy Tinkletrousers and his time-traveling hijinks prevented George and Harold from creating him in the first place. With Tippy having changed the course of human history forever, George and Harold will have to figure out a way to change it back.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC PILHiaasen, Carl
Summary: "Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help--in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023