Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
10 best books like Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Ira Berlin): Santa Olivia, The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, Dragonwatch, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Priestess of the White, Grip of the Shadow Plague, Mandragola, Wrath of the Dragon King, The Ghostfaces, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth.
Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas...
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
| Author | Kara Cooney |
| ISBN | 0307956768 |
An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power in a man’s world.
Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king’s son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was...
| Author | Brandon Mull |
| ISBN | 1629722561 |
In the hidden dragon sanctuary of Wyrmroost, Celebrant the Just, King of the Dragons, plots his revenge. He has long seen the sanctuaries as prisons, and he wants nothing more than to overthrow his captors and return the world to the Age of Dragons, when he and his kind ruled and reigned without borders....
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0192123173 |
'Holmes,' I cried. 'Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?'
Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never...
| Author | Trudi Canavan |
| ISBN | 0060815701 |
In a land on the brink of peace—watched jealously by a ruthless cult from across the sea and beset by hidden enemies—five extraordinary humans must serve as sword and shield of the Gods.
Auraya is one.
Her heroism saved a village from destruction; now Auraya has been named Priestess...
Grip of the Shadow Plague
| Author | Brandon Mull |
| ISBN | 1590388984 |
Strange things are afoot at Fablehaven. Someone or something has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness. Seth discovers the problem in its infancy, but as the infectious disease spreads, it becomes clear that the preserve cannot hold out for long.
In...
| Author | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| ISBN | 0917974573 |
Mandragola = The Mandrake, Niccolò Machiavelli
The Mandrake is a satirical play by Italian Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. Although the five-act comedy was published in 1524 and first performed in the carnival season of 1526, Machiavelli likely wrote The Mandrake in 1518 as...
| Author | Brandon Mull |
| ISBN | 1629724866 |
War has come to the dragon sanctuaries of the world and nowhere is the danger more intense than at Wyrmroost. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of Kendra and Seth, Celebrant, King of Dragons, prepares to unleash his fury and take control of his native preserve. Armed with information from a new ally...
| Author | John Flanagan |
| ISBN | 0451485823 |
When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm at sea, they’re blown far off course – so far that they wash up on the shores of a land to the west that Hal can’t recognize from any of his maps. Eerily the locals are nowhere in sight, yet the Herons have a creeping feeling they are being watched.
Suddenly...
| Author | Eugene D. Genovese |
| ISBN | 0394716523 |
A fascinating, but vitally flawed, book, Roll, Jordan, Roll, is part Marxist-leaning polemic and part well-woven narratives of the slave experience in colonial and antebellum America. At just over 800 pages, Genovese's opus has become a classic in the field for its amazing scope and wide-ranging...
| Author | Stephanie E. Smallwood |
| ISBN | 0674023498 |
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market.
Smallwood's...
From John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice -- an all-new adventure featuring the Brotherband crew and one of our favorite Rangers!
Hal, his Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan have freed the twelve Araluens sold into slavery. Returning to Araluen, Gilan...
Małe Licho i tajemnica Niebożątka
| Author | Marta Kisiel |
| ISBN | 8328052210 |
W pewnym starym, niesamowitym domu na uboczu, za wysokim ogrodzeniem, mieszka chłopiec imieniem Bożek, zwany też Niebożątkiem, który nigdy nie jest sam. Bo oprócz starej skrzyni ze skarbami i najfajniejszej mamy pod słońcem ma też najprawdziwszego anioła stróża… a pod jego łóżkiem...
The Slave Ship: A Human History
| Author | Marcus Rediker |
| ISBN | 0670018236 |
The missing link in the chain of American slavery
For three centuries slave ships carted millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the Americas. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation system, but little of the ships that made it all possible. In...
