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1) The house is on fire

Author

Beanland, Rachel

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2023.

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Physical Desc

375 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

Description

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Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season. The General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that's done looking for...

2) River sing me home

Author

Shearer, Eleanor

Publisher

Berkley

Language

English

Description

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"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...

3) Clear: a novel

Author

Davies, Carys

Publisher

Scribner

Pub. Date

2024.

Edition

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Physical Desc

196 pages ; 23 cm

Language

English

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"John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted. Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff...