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42) Edenland
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English
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"Born a slave, Bledsoe had never left Our Joy plantation, and a daring escape offers his only chance for liberty. On the run he encounters Alice, an Irish indentured servant committing what appears to be an act of murder as she burns down a shack in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina. Faced with the threat of capture, Bledsoe and Alice become reluctant allies. An epic tale unfolds as their quest for freedom pulls them from swamp to city, from...
43) Dom służących
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Polish
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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 finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds...
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English
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"A fierce and illuminating debut from FOLD founder Jael Richardson about a young woman who must find the courage to determine her own future and secure her freedom Set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child uncovers a nation divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In this world, Elimina Dubois is one of only 100 babies taken from the...
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Español
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Agnieszka ama su hogar en el valle, su tranquilo pueblo, los bosques y el brillante río. Pero el corrupto Wood se encuentra en la frontera, lleno de poder malévolo, y su sombra se cierne sobre su vida. Su pueblo confía en el mago frío e impulsivo conocido sólo como el Dragón para mantener sus poderes a raya. Pero exige un precio terrible por su ayuda: una joven entregada para servirle durante diez años, un destino casi tan terrible como caer...
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