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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
275 pages : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Description
In 1853, four bonded servants escape from a Russian fur post at New Archangel (now Sitka, Alaska) when they cannot bear the ill treatment. A harrowing trip southward brings the two survivors to a bay in southern Washington, where they are rescued.
Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 1
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Description
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...
Author
Series
These hollow vows volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
To save her sister from the sadistic king of the Unseelie court, Brie makes a deal to steal three magical relics from the Seelie court and finds herself caught between two dangerous faerie courts and their seductive princes.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"In fifty years, Myrra will be free. Until then, she's a contract worker. Ever since she was five, her life and labor have belonged to the highest bidder on her contract--butchers, laundries, and now the powerful, secretive Carlyles. But when one night finds the Carlyles dead, Myrra is suddenly free a lot sooner than she anticipated--and at a cost she never could have imagined. Burdened with the Carlyles' orphaned daughter and the terrible secret...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of God that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord, a "seigneur," for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters -- barkskins. Rene suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a Mi'kmaw woman and their descendants live trapped between two inimical cultures. But Duquet, crafty and ruthless,...
Author
Publisher
B de Bolsillo
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
509 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Rescatada de las calles de Dublin, Caitlyn OMalley se encontro bajo la proteccion de Connor dArcy, conde de Iveagh de dia, y el mas arriesgado salteador de caminos de Irlanda, de noche. De las ruinas del castillo de Donoughmore, el valiente noble salia a robar a los odiados ingleses. Pronto Caitlyn cabalgaba a su lado, atormentada por la creciente pasion que sentia por el hombre que la habia convertido en mujer y, sin embargo la trataba como a una...
8) Black flower
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Traces the experiences of Ijeong, a Korean immigrant sold into indentured servitude who resolves to find the nobleman's daughter that he loves and is swept up by the Mexican revolution.
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1352 England, seventeen-year-old Annabel, granddaughter of a knight and a would-be nun, eludes a lecherous bailiff but falls in love with Lord Le Wyse, the ferocious and disfigured man to whom her family owes three years of indentured servitude, in this tale loosely based on Beauty and the Beast.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Description
While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.
Author
Series
Saddler's legacy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
395 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
On a small farm in 19th-century Ohio, Ann dreams of a marriage proposal from her poetic suitor, Eli. When she travels to Pittsburgh with her father on business, Will shows her that nobility is more than fine words. When the Millers return to Ohio and their ministry there, Will resolves to find them at any cost. Will Ann be waiting?
13) Calico bush
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In 1743, thirteen-year-old Marguerite Ledoux travels to Maine as the indentured servant of a family that regards her as little better than the Indians that threaten them, but her strength, quick thinking and courage surprise them all.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After his thievery conviction in 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts is sent from England across the Atlantic to America where he is enslaved on a tobacco farm, never giving up on finding his sister, Charity, brought to the colonies on a different ship.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
696 pages ; 24 cm
Description
After cheating the hangman twice--once after the Battle of Culloden in Scotland and again at Marshalsea Prison--Jamie MacGillivray is sentenced to indentured servitude in colonial America where he teams up with a poor village girl similarly sentenced through serfdom, revolt, escape, and romantic entanglements.
17) Unconquered
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Peace-loving Chris Holden is a militiaman who buys and then frees beautiful indentured servant Abby Hale. When a supplier of illegal firearms covets Abby for himself, he sparks a vicious battle between an Indian tribe and a few brave colonists.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
Meet Tony: insatiably curious, deeply compassionate, with a unique perspective on every scene he encounters. Kidnapped and transported to the New World after traveling from the British East India Company’s outpost on the Coromandel Coast to the teeming streets of London, young Tony finds himself in Jamestown, Virginia, where he and his fellow indentured servants—boys like himself, men from Africa, a mad woman from London—must work the tobacco...
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