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Just Harriet volume 3
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English
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"There are some things you should know about Harriet Wermer. She used to lie a lot, but not anymore. Seriously, she only tells the truth now. Even though she hadn't wanted to come to Marble Island in the first place, now she doesn't want to leave. It's the truth. With her mom and new baby brother home from the hospital, it's almost time for Harriet to pack up and head home from Marble Island and all the friends she's made. But Harriet doesn't have...
Lexile measure:
1050L
Language:
English
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Uncle Toms Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the hearts and minds of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us, in scenes of great dramatic power, the human effects of a system in which slaves were property. When a Kentucky farmer falls on hard times he is forced to sell all his slaves, and among them is Uncle Tom, who's bought by a brutal plantation owner. The novel describes the horror of...
3. Just Harriet
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English
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Harriet Wermer is unhappy about having to spend her summer with her grandmother on Marble Island until she discovers a mystery involving her Dad from when he was a boy living on the island.
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Series:
Just Harriet volume 2
Language:
English
Description:
"Harriet Wermer investigates more mysteries during her stay on Marble Island"--
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HL: High-Low 790L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. Born a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today...
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Series:
Duke's estates volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Finding an earl is the last thing on her mind. At the end of the London season, Harriet Finch reluctantly returns to her wealthy grandfather's country house. His rigid opinions for how she should live and whom she should marry sparks Harriet's rebelliousness. Yearning to reclaim her freedom, Harriet goes for a long walk and a handsome rogue from the nearby Travelers camp catches her eye. Little does she know, the rugged Traveler she's flirting with...
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English
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In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club comes this novel about friendship and redemption. After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life. Alice, Scarlet, Lulu, Beth, Harriet, and Ellen welcome Mary into their circle despite her reluctance to open...
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Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
The Blazing World is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman's struggle to be seen. The internationally bestselling author tells the provocative story of artist Harriet Burden, who, after years of having her work ignored, ignites an explosive scandal in New York's art world when she recruits three young men to present her creations as their own. Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant reveal,...
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Series:
Hardy Boys volume 5
Lexile measure:
750L
Language:
English
Description:
Hunting for Hidden Gold is a thrilling adventure from the renowned Hardy Boys series, authored by Franklin W. Dixon. In this captivating tale, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy find themselves embroiled in a perilous quest to uncover a legendary treasure hidden deep within the rugged wilderness of the American West. The story begins when the Hardy boys receive a mysterious letter from their father, Fenton Hardy, a renowned detective, who is working on...
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Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
"The reclusive Harriet Wolf, revered author and family matriarch, has a final confession-a love story. Years after her death, as her family comes together one last time, the mystery of Harriet's life hangs in the balance. Does the truth lie in the rumored final book of the series that made Harriet a world-famous writer, or will her final confession be lost forever? Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders tells the moving story of the unforgettable...
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Language:
English
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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a "supplement" book published to document Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling book and anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. An instant classic, Uncle Tom's Cabin (which was first published in 1852) had a profound impact on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States. Stowe's novel, which was highly controversial at the time, provoked a firestorm of competing and contradictory responses among...
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English
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"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," which was first published in 1861, was one of the first slave narratives penned by a woman. The book tells the story of Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897), a slave from North Carolina who suffered greatly (along with her family) at the hands of her ruthless owner. After several failed attempts to escape, Harriet eventually made her way north. Her journey, which involved years of hiding, was incredibly slow. She did...
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Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird ,and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives.
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Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
"Detective Manon Bradshaw is five months pregnant and has officially given up on finding romantic love. Instead, she is in hot-pursuit of the work-life balance and parked in a cold case corridor--the price she's had to pay for a transfer back to Cambridgeshire. This is fine, she tells herself. She can devote herself to bringing up her motley collection of children--the new baby, and her adopted 12-year-old son Fly Dent. He needed a fresh start--he...
15. Don't Lie
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Publisher:
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
"Gladys could tell fortunes but it was Harriet who made them." When Harriet tried her teenage hand at being a ball girl at the local tennis club the day after England won the World Cup, Ian's wife Betty was intent on winning the doubles trophy. Betty still had time to encourage Ian to take up Harriet's cause with the club officials who threw her out as unsuitable. Harriet may have had to leave Southport but she was prospering when Ian tracked her...
16. Shame the Devil
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Publisher:
State University of New York Press
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
The remarkable and true story of the nineteenth-century novelist, journalist, and feminist Fanny Fern. "There may be married people who do not read the morning paper. Smith and I know them not ... It is not too much to say the newspapers are one of our strongest points of sympathy; that it is our meat and drink to praise and abuse them together; that we often in our imagination edit a model newspaper, which shall have for its motto, 'Speak the truth,...
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Publisher:
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Faith Confronts Evil tells the stories of African American women before the Civil War who countered the rampant evil of slavery with the strength of their Christian faith. They claimed the words of the gospel, that Jesus comes to set the captives free. They embraced Christianity as the source of liberty, humanity, and justice in which God was on their side, Jesus was their friend, and the Holy Spirit was their guide to all truth. Their stories are...
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Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Description:
"Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women's freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost in the meantime? A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions...
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Publisher:
Dover Publications
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
Straightforward, yet often poetic accounts of the battle for freedom, three memoirs by courageous black women vividly chronicle their struggles in the bonds of slavery, their rebellion against degrading injustice, and their determination to attain racial equality. In Narrative of Sojourner Truth, one of the most important documents on slavery ever written, a passionate African American abolitionist and champion of women's rights tells of her life...
20. The Fifth Guest
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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The invitation you don't want to receive… Five friends. One deadly secret. Five old university friends gather on the eve of their flatmate's memorial at a beautiful riverside house. Host Caro is as perfect as always Shy, awkward Lily's now a bestselling author Sports hero George loves suburban fatherhood Bad-boy Travis only gets his highs from meditation And gatecrasher Elle is still a troublemaker! Estranged for years, they're finally ready to...