Humphrey Dixon
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The year is 1815, and North Carolina widower and farmer August King sets off on his yearly trip to sell his produce and buy the stock and goods he will need to survive the winter. On his journey, he comes upon a young, female, run-away slave. Now King must decide if he will break the law and help her to freedom, or if he should leave her to be hunted down and, ultimately, returned to her slave owner.
3) Evelyn
Pub. Date
2002.
Formats
Description
The true story of Desmond Doyle who fights to win back his children after they are sent to a Dublin orphanage when his wife leaves him, and abandons their children.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"The story of the unbreakable bond between two brothers from their childhood in rural Devon to the battlefields of the First World War. When young Tommo Peaceful ... volunteers to fight, his protective older brother Charles ... follows him to Flanders. But it is here that both experience the brutal nature of war, far removed from family life and their rivalry for the love of Molly Monks"--Container.
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