![]() ![]() SOA = Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction IBBY = International Board on Books for Young People Honour Book Their struggles to achieve dignity and equality have inspired powerful fiction.ĪLANCB = American Library Association Notable Children's BookīBYA = An American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults" pick Constitution was amended to make black Americans citizens with the same rights as white Americans, they were not treated as such. Lee surrendered to the Union General Ulysses S. The war raged for four years, longer than either side expected, until in 1865 the Confederate General Robert E. The Civil War erupted in 1861 when white Southerners felt their way of life was threatened by pressure from the North to abolish slavery. Many heroic Americans, both black and white, helped people escape slavery through the "Underground Railway," a network of guides and friendly people's houses where escaping slaves could eat and sleep in secret while traveling to freedom in Canada. ![]() ![]() Young adult novels set in the American Old West appear on a separate page.įrom before 1800 until the Civil War, black Americans were enslaved in the South. Several novels about pirates, the religious community of Shakers, workers in Northern textile mills, and rural Northerners are included in the listings on this page. Not all novels set in nineteenth-century America are about slavery and its aftermath, but this subject is powerfully dramatic, and most are. Young Adult Historical Novels: Nineteenth Century North America ![]()
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![]() ![]() But when she began to raise questions about some of the church's actions, she found herself a target. She found the success she'd worked so hard for, and with it a prominent place in the hierarchy of celebrity Scientologists alongside people such as Tom Cruise, Scientology's most high-profile adherent. ![]() Indoctrinated into the church as a child while living with her mother and sister in New York, Remini eventually moved to Los Angeles, where her dreams of becoming an actress and advancing Scientology's causes grew increasingly intertwined. ![]() Now, in this frank memoir, the former King of Queens star opens up about that experience, revealing the details of her painful split with the church and its controversial practices. That was never more evident than in 2013, when Remini loudly and publicly broke with the Church of Scientology. But being a troublemaker has come at a cost. That willingness to speak her mind, stand her ground, and rattle the occasional cage has enabled this tough-talking girl from Brooklyn to forge an enduring and successful career in Hollywood. Leah Remini has never been the type to hold her tongue. ![]() ![]() But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried-and some wounds aren’t meant to heal. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. ![]() No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war-and he intends to keep it that way. Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. ![]() ![]() ![]() They have anti-gravity, beam cannons, force screens, flame guns, sophisticated communications and mapping technologies and the will to use them - for the Wersgorix are the overlords of an enormous galactic empire that makes a habit of finding new worlds, exterminating or enslaving their populations, and installing new Wersgor masters in their place. Alien invaders, the Wersgorix fall from the sky in the midst of Ansby in an enormous chrome ship bristling with weapons. The army features knights and men-at-arms and longbowmen and the various other components of a Medieval host…but it certainly doesn’t have anything to match the likes of the Wersgorix. A great host is being assembled under Sir Roger, Baron de Tourneville, in preparation for a campaign in France as part of the ongoing conflict that would come to be known as the Hundred Years War. The year is 1345 the place is the village of Ansby, Lincolnshire, England, Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() The scene is but a sketch, almost ghostly, etched in a small space of the large fresco called Resurrection of the Christ by Renaissance painter Bernardino di Betto (Pinturicchio). We can, with some certainty, even give a name to one of the figures, Diego Colon, the adopted Taino son of Columbus, the central figure in my historical novel Taino (Fulcrum, 2012) and a constant presence to me over several years of writing. ![]() The Vatican authorities also announced their conclusion that these are indeed the first images drawn of American Indians in Europe. ![]() Authorities at the Vatican, perplexed at first, have surmised over seven years since this drawing began to emerge that the figures represent American Indians – specifically the Arawak-speaking Caribbean island people, Taino – who greeted Christopher Columbus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And unlike Serilda, his gift for spinning gold isn’t a fabrication. In her desperation, she accidentally summons a mysterious and mischievous young man into her cell. Commanded to turn a room full of straw into gold or face death, Serilda prepares herself for an untimely execution. ![]() Whilst helping two forest creatures hide from the wicked Erlking one night, she weaves a story about being able to spin straw into gold – an outlandish lie that sees her locked in a castle as the dark king’s prisoner. Serilda is an outcast in her village but she’s always had a talent for spinning stories. Rooted in the story’s Germanic origins, Gilded centres on a poor miller’s daughter who befriends a mysterious gold spinner after she’s caught in the clutches of a sinister king. If you love losing yourself in classic fairytale retellings, there’s no book more perfect than Marissa Meyer’s Gilded – a dark and enchanting reimagining of Rumpelstiltskin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Mulan be able to save Shang before it's too late? Will he ever be able to trust her again? Or will she lose him-and be lost in the Underworld-forever? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Moreover, Mulan is still disguised as the soldier called Ping, wrestling with the decision to reveal her true identity to her closest friend. With the help of Shang's great lion guardian ShiShi, Mulan must traverse Diyu to find Shang's spirit, face harrowing obstacles, and leave by sunrise-or become King Yama's prisoner forever. ![]() But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not willing to give Shang up easily. What if Mulan had to travel to the underworld-Cover. Try our free service - convert any of your text to speech More than 10 english voices Menu. What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld? When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. Will Mulan be able to save Shang before its too late-Back cover. Other author's books: Reflection: A Twisted Tale. ![]() ![]() To be honest, I didn’t love it quite as much as Clockwork Angel as a series starter, but overall it was still quite well done and invoked a similar level of excitement, annoyance, frustration, and swooning as its predecessor. I also love the whole urban fantasy/historical London aesthetic, which was definitely a factor that influenced how much I liked this book. Even though he wasn’t exactly a protagonist in this new sequel trilogy (it’s about his children), it was so great to get to see him again. He is my absolute favorite and I love him so much (if you want more evidence of how much click here and here). ![]() ![]() I’ve been waiting for more Will Herondale in my life ever since I finished reading The Infernal Devices four? years ago. Time to review my MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2020!! Honestly, my most anticipated book of 20, because 2019 is when it was supposed to come out initially. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marx was at this time resident in Paris, then seen as the center of socialist thought. The Manuscripts were composed during the summer of 1844, when Marx was 25 or 26 years old. Their publication greatly altered the reception of Marx by situating his work within a theoretical framework that had until then been unavailable to his followers. They were first released in Berlin in 1932, and in 1933, there followed a republication of this work in the Soviet Union ( Moscow- Leningrad), also in German. ![]() The notebooks were compiled in their original German in the Soviet Union by researchers at Moscow's Marx–Engels–Lenin Institute, decades after Marx's death. The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 ( German: Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844), also referred to as the Paris Manuscripts ( Pariser Manuskripte) or as the 1844 Manuscripts, are a series of notes written between April and August 1844 by Karl Marx, published posthumously in 1932. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was an interior artist on White Plume Mountain, Slave Pits of the Undercity, Ghost Tower of Inverness, Secret of the Slavers Stockade, Secret of Bone Hill, Palace of the Silver Princess, Isle of Dread, The Mansion of Mad Professor Ludlow, Food Fight, In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords, the original Fiend Folio, Descent into the Depths of the Earth, Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords, Against the Giants, Queen of the Spiders, Realms of Horror, and the second and third editions of the Top Secret role-playing game. He was the cover artist for the AD&D Player Character Record Sheets, Against the Giants, Secret of Bone Hill, the Gamma World book Legion of Gold, and provided the back cover for In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords. Willingham got his start from the late 1970s to early 1980s as a staff artist for TSR, Inc., where he illustrated a number of their role-playing game products. During his father's military career the family also lived in Alaska, California, and finally three years in Germany. ![]() William Willingham was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. William Willingham (born 1956) is an American writer and artist of comics, known for his work on the series Elementals and Fables. ![]() |