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“ellen norman stern”

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  • The French Physician's Boy

    A Story of Philadelphia's 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic

    by Ellen Norman Stern ...
    Sixteen-year-old Matthew is not at all happy to start the long ship voyage to North America from his native Dutch-ruled colony of Surinam, but he is not free to control his fate. Either he leaves for Philadelphia with his master or he will be sold at slave auction.Matts owner, Dr. David de Cohen Nassy, a Jewish planter and unofficial physician, bankrupt and depressed, seeks a new start in North ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • The Book Of Negroes

    A Novel

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Lawrence Hill’s nationally bestselling novel has garnered praise and awards around the world. The Book of Negroes has won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and CBC Canada Reads, among many others. Lawrence Hill—and his remarkable character Aminata Diallo—have become household names throughout Canada.Readers will follow the story of Aminata, an unforgettable ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Native Guard

    Poems

    by Natasha Trethewey ...
    Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryFormer U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard is a deeply personal volume that brings together two legacies of the Deep South.Through elegaic verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South—--where one of the first black regiments, The Louisiana ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unchained (Infinity Ring Secrets #7)

    by E. W. Clarke ...
    Series Book 7 - Infinity Ring Secrets
    Secret adventures from the world of Infinity Ring. Only in e-book! Only 99 cents!Margaret has left behind the comforts of London to join her parents on the frontier of Australia. She's expecting her new life to be rugged. But she has no idea of the true dangers that await her in the Outback . . . not until she befriends a young outlaw who draws her into a deadly conspiracy.INFINITY RING SECRETS is ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Brooklyn Rose

    by Ann Rinaldi ...
    In this novel set at the beginning of the twentieth century, a fifteen-year-old Southern girl marries and moves to the unfamiliar world of Brooklyn.It's 1900, the dawn of a new century, and fifteen-year-old Rose Frampton is beginning a new life. She's left her family in South Carolina to live with her handsome and wealthy husband in Brooklyn, New York—a move that is both scary and exciting. As ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unheard Voices

    An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

    by Malorie Blackman ...
    In March 1807, the British Parliament passed an Act making the trading and transportation of slaves illegal. It was many years before slavery, as it was known then, was abolished, and slavery still continues today in different ways, but it was a big step forward towards the empancipation of a people.Malorie Blackman has drawn together some of the finest of today's writers and poets to contribute ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • An Easter Carol / VeggieTales

    by Cindy Kenney ...
    Series series Big Idea Books / VeggieTales
    This adaptation of the new VeggieTales® video, An Easter Carol, shares the real meaning of Easter in a fun and entertaining way! Ebenezer Nezzer is confused about what Easter really means, and he’s determined to turn a little town in London into Easter Land—filled with Easter egg hunts and chocolate bunnies. Can anyone stop him? When he receives a visit from a tiny angel, Ebenezer gets a glimpse ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Roots Four Zero

    by J. Darnell Johnson ...
    In a cross between fantasy and realism, Roots Four Zero is about a fourteen-year-old slave girl called Zero. Her master named her Zero because he thought of her as a nothing. One day Zero finally finds the courage to run away and decides to find her roots. She enters a world of the unknown and the unsafe as a fugitive slave. She soon makes friends with a beautiful and benevolent butterfly lady ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • On the Heels of the Hill

    by Allan Watson Waswa ...
    In this world, different cultures enjoy different delicacies. On the Heels of the Hills is a fiction story based on both real and fictional events during the activity of picking grasshoppers, a delicacy enjoyed in Uganda and some other parts of the world. It tells us of what happened during the activity at a time before rural electrification changed the whole style of collecting the grasshoppers ... Read more

    $13.74 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus