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In debt, Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby reluctantly decides to trade two of his slaves. The two, middle-aged Uncle Tom and young Harry, are to be sold to Mr. Haley, a detestable slave trader. Eliza, Harry's mother and Mrs. Shelby's maid, overhears the details of the arraignment, warns Uncle Tom and flees with Harry to the north. Eliza and Harry barely make it across the Ohio River before slave catchers can catch up with them. On the run, Eliza and...
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"It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastian, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastian are separated, and she desperately...
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173 pages ; 23 cm
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Para Catalina, los ̕das pasan en una calma hip̤ntica en la hacienda de Colutla. Su serenidad se ve sacudida por los recuerdos reprimidos de la infancia que es̀tn regresando con ̀ms frecuencia. La llegada del misterioso viajero Joaq̕un inyecta nueva vida, sentido y entusiasmo a sus ̕das. Apenas percibe que la presencia de este extrąo amenaza su matrimonio, su relac̤in con su hermana Eugenia, la{250} nica constante en su vida, y el futuro de...
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