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Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1937 India. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village, and his past. Loyalties are tested and destinies decided as two worlds collide.
3) Nightwalkers
Author
Series
Cam Richter novels volume 4
Formats
Description
Seeking more peaceful pastures in North Carolina, Cam Richter buys a 700-acre plantation and immediately finds himself the target of a killer, and he must deal with all the entanglements of a place suddenly alive with secrets of a bloody past.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
326 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
The war is over, but at Fairhaven Plantation, Charlotte's struggle has just begun. Charlotte Fraser returns to her late father's once-flourishing rice plantation on the Waccamaw River, determined to continue his tradition of growing the special kind of rice known as Carolina Gold. But Fairhaven Plantation is in ruins, the bondsmen are free, and money is scarce. To make ends meet, Charlotte reluctantly accepts a position as tutor to the young daughters...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
388 p. ;
Description
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins' tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation -- as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation: slaves take to escaping...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young American nurse from Little Rock meets the handsome and mysterious French planter on a South Pacific island during World War II. Seeking respite from the battles around them, they find refuge in each other as their romance blooms in the lush tropical paradise.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hamish Bond is a plantation owner who has a secret past of slave trading. Rau-ru is a freedom-yearning slave who has been raised as a son by Bond. Amantha Starr is a fiery belle who goes on the auction block when her part-African heritage is revealed - and is sold to Bond. She loathes Bond at first but is eventually won over.
Author
Formats
Description
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
13) Conquistadora
Author
Publisher
Suma De Letras
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
508 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in twin brothers Ramon and Inocente, both in love with Ana, she finds a way to get there: she marries Ramon and convinces the brothers that their destiny is in the remote sugar plantation they have inherited on the island. But Ana's fantasies haven't prepared her for the...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
426 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Description
A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, and dedicating her home as a burial site for fallen soldiers.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (358 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Big city blues: A free-wheeling chorus girl hooks up with the ultimate hick.
Hell's highway: A cool convict works the road crew for a corrupt warden.
The cabin in the cotton: Sharecroppers are taken advantage of by the planter who keeps them as virtual slaves.
When ladies meet: A female novelist whose latest work extols the virtues of extramarital amour has a fling with her married publisher.
I sell anything: A Second Avenue auctioneer gets played...
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