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Proulx, 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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Charry, 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 CHA

Ye, 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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHU

Jiles, 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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIL

Avi

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 2019

Draper, 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 DRA

Wick, 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

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIC

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