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The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention of Wings traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self.

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The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier
The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier: Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.

The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden
The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden: In 1852, when a prestigious Alabama plantation owner gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah—her slave and her half-sister. Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be with ambitions of loving whom she chooses. Sarah equally hides behind the façade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with them to their new home, igniting events that spiral into a tale beyond what you ever imagined possible.


Property by Valerie Martin
Property by Valerie Martin: The events, tragedies, and emotional repercussions of slavery and a slave revolt in the antebellum South are seen through the eyes of Manon Gaudet, a pretty, petulant, self-absorbed slave owner, who marries the wealthy owner of a sugar plantation near New Orleans, only to see her own prized slave, Sarah, become her husband's mistress.

The March by E.L Doctorow
The March by E.L Doctorow:  Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War has a profound impact on the outcome of the war, in a richly textured, evocative historical novel that captures the full experience of the diverse characters caught up in the struggle.


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