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The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping and “richly detailed story of a woman caught between two cultures” (Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the real life of Crow Mary—an Indigenous woman in 19th-century North America.In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives...

The New York Times bestselling author of the "touching" (The Boston Globe) book club classics The Kitchen House and the "emotionally rewarding" (Booklist) Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary--an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America. In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mar...

The New York Times bestselling author of the "touching" (The Boston Globe) book club classics The Kitchen House and the "emotionally rewarding" (Booklist) Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary?an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America.In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary,...

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James Burton, noto e stimato argentiere di Philadelphia, ha una benda nera che gli copre l'occhio sinistro. Nei salotti buoni della città le donne sussurrano che sia rimasto sfregiato durante un duello. Negli anni ha imparato a nascondere molti segreti. Nato in una grande casa coloniale nel Sud della Virginia, dall'unione illegittima tra Belle, una schiava mulatta, e Marshall Pyke, il giovane padrone della piantagione, James un giorno è stato ...

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Gone with the Wind" is turned inside out in this tragic, page-turning novel in which a white indentured servant girl lives and works with black slaves.

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Gone with the Wind" is turned inside out in this tragic, page-turning novel in which a white indentured servant girl lives and works with black slaves.

How are they not the same?'When seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner, she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house and becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation.

Gone with the Wind" is turned inside out in this tragic, page-turning novel in which a white indentured servant girl lives and works with black slaves.

Orphaned while onboard a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia deeply bonds with her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house and she finds herself perilously straddling...

In 1791 arriveert het zevenjarige Ierse weesmeisje Lavinia bij de tabaksplantage Tall Oaks. Ze krijgt een plek toebedeeld bij de slavenfamilie in het keukenhuis, waar ze liefdevol wordt opgenomen. Maar door haar blanke huid raakt ze ook betrokken bij de familie des huizes. Wanneer Lavinia trouwt met hun getroebleerde zoon, wordt haar loyaliteit zwaar op de proef gesteld.

Aangrijpende roman over de slavernij van de schrijfster van de succesvolle roman 'Het keukenhuis'. Jamie - zoon van een plantage-eigenaar en een slavin - vermoordt als jonge jongen zijn vader en ontvlucht de plantage in Virginia. Eenmaal in Philadelphia gaat hij door het leven als een welgestelde blanke edelsmid. Maar dan komt hem ter ore dat zijn dierbare jonge hulp Pan gevangengenomen is om te worden verkocht als slaaf. Pans vader, die Jami...

The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House is a heart racing story about a man's treacherous journey through the twists and turns of the Underground Railroad on a mission to save the boy he swore to protect. Glory Over Everything is "gripping...breathless until the end” (Kirkus Reviews).The year is 1830 and Jamie Pyke, a celebrated silversmith and notorious ladies' man, is keeping a...

Un'enorme dimora avvolta da glicini in fiore: così la casa del capitano James Pyke appare allo sguardo infantile di Lavinia McCarten, la mattina d'aprile del 1791 in cui la piccola irlandese mette per la prima volta piede in Virginia. Pyke ha raccolto la bambina dalla sua nave, appena approdata in America dopo la lunga traversata oceanica, e l'ha portata con sé per destinarla alle cucine della sua piantagione. Un modo come un altro per passare...

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James Burton, noto e stimato argentiere di Philadelphia, ha una benda nera che gli copre l'occhio sinistro. Nei salotti buoni della città le donne sussurrano che sia rimasto sfregiato durante un duello. Negli anni ha imparato a nascondere molti segreti. Nato in una grande casa coloniale nel Sud della Virginia, dall'unione illegittima tra Belle, una schiava mulatta, e Marshall Pyke, il giovane padrone della piantagione, James un giorno è stato ...