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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring...
Author
Language
English
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"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
Author
Language
English
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Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
Publisher
Great Smoky Mountains Assn
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over 300 rare photographs of the people of the Great Smoky Mountains provide a stunning visual record spanning more than a century of history. Gleaned from Park archival collections, as well as those of the Smithsonian Institution and National Archives, these images retell the passage of time from the Cherokee, to the European settlers, to the birth of America's most popular national park."--Back cover
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