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My True Story
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by André Brink
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsIn Philida, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, André Brink—"one of South Africa's greatest novelists" (The Telegraph)—gives us his most powerful novel yet; the truly unforgettable story of a female slave, and her fierce determination to survive and to be free.
by E. Benjamin Skinner
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsTo be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard.
by Douglas A. Blackmon
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsIn this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.
by Lawrence Hill
Published Nov 2008
Read ReviewsAbducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom—and of the knowledge she needs to get home.
by Patricia McCormick
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsAlthough Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather sends her away to take a job to support her family. When she arrives at “Happiness House”, full of hope, she learns the unthinkable truth: she has...
by Yvette Christiansë
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsA fiercely poetic literary debut re-creating the life of an 19th-century slave woman in South Africa.
by Dean King
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsA spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Reader and protagonist alike are challenged into new ways of understanding culture clash, slavery and the place of Islam in the social fabric of desert-dwelling peoples.
by Janet Wallach
Published Jan 2003
Read ReviewsTransporting readers to the menacing yet majestic world of eighteenth-century Turkey, biographer and Middle East expert Janet Wallach brilliantly re-imagines the life of Aimee Dubucq, cousin of Empress Josephine and concubine to the Sultan.
by Nancy Hersage
Published Apr 2000
Read ReviewsA fictionalized thriller that explores the very real social, economic and political questions surrounding today's global trade in sex slaves.
by Catherine Meyer
Published Apr 1999
Read ReviewsA powerful account of a mother's ultimate nightmare: suddenly, without warning, to lose her children - and to find that neither the police, nor governments, nor the courts, can help her get them back.
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