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Celebrate Women
If you like Barbara Kingsolver, try…
OBD Audiobooks - Historical Fiction
OBD Oprah's Book Club - Adult
If you like Barbara Kingsolver, try…
OBD Audiobooks - Historical Fiction
OBD Oprah's Book Club - Adult
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"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
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Beneath the burning ground volume 1
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The Wares are only one of the families that will soon be caught up in the burning issue of slavery with raids from the Border Ruffians out of Missouri and John Brown's small army devoted to ending slavery and helping runaways to escape to the north. To aid and abet a runaway slave is a crime that carries a dear price.
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