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When Emma Davis reads the words of Isaiah 6:8 in her room at a Georgia women's college, she understands her true calling: to become a missionary. It is a leap of faith that sweeps her away to Africa in an odyssey of personal discovery, tremendous hardship, and profound transformation.

"The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. Cyr's past combine to put C. S. Harris's "troubled but compelling antihero" (Booklist) to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling mystery. London, 1813. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, into a macabre and increasingly perilous...

"Pola, una mujer esclavizada en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX ha sido forzada a vivir en el mundo brutalmente inhumano de las paridoras de esclavos. Golpeada y violada repetidamente, sus beb̌s le son arrebatados en el momento de nacer para no volver a verlos jam̀s. Despǔs de un intento de fuga y una golpiza despiadada, despierta en una nueva plantaci̤n, Las Mercedes, para formar parte de su diversa comunidad negra. Pero su pasado la persigue en...

"La cabaña del tío Tom es una extraordinaria novela que habla sobre la esclavitud en Estados Unidos. Tom es un negro benevolente; sin embargo, Shelby, dueño de Tom, se ve obligado a venderlo a un tratante llamado Haley. Esclavos por naturaleza, pero libres de espíritu, unos aceptan su destino y otros se rebelan ante la injusticia de la esclavitud."--Selector.com.mx. "Uncle Tom's cabin is an extraordinary novel about slavery in the US. Tom is...

"Conducting research for her weekly column, Jinx, a free-spirited Muscogee (Creek) historian, travels to Hold House, a Georgia plantation originally owed by Cherokee chief James Hold, to uncover the mystery of what happened to a tribal member who stayed behind after Indian removal, when Native Americans were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homelands in the nineteenth century. At Hold House, she meets Ruth, a magazine writer on assignment,...

"A true story about when the author was a little girl and she and her family traveled to Canada to help plant trees to replace ones that had been removed by loggers"--

A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. The good, the bad & the ugly: The inimitable "Man With No Name" teams up with two gunslingers to pursue a fortune in stolen gold, but they soon discover their greatest challenge is to stay alive. Django unchained: Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie,...

On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...