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In Pakistan, Amal holds on to her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
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The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart. In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded...
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Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2010
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After fulfilling ten years of servitude to the malicious Lafayette Breaux, Maria flees to New Orleans. Rescued from rescued from drowning by Hank Shroeder, a Mormon, she joins his group and they grow closer. But the malicious Breaux will stop at nothing to reclaim Maria as his own, and relentlessly tracks her--even as she treks West with her fellow Saints. Will she be able to escape her tormentor and find peace when she reaches her promised land?
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Touchstone Books
Pub. Date
2010
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Lavinia, an orphaned seven-year-old white indentured servant, arrives in 1791 to work in the kitchen house at Tall Oaks, a Tidewater, Va., tobacco plantation owned by Capt. James Pyke. Belle, the captain's illegitimate half-white daughter who runs the kitchen house, shares narration duties, and the two distinctly different voices chronicle a troublesome 20 years: Lavinia becomes close to the slaves working the kitchen house, but she can't fully fit...
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Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
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Maria stumbles across the rain-soaked forest floor, injured and breathless but determined to flee the baying hounds behind her. Reaching the riverbank, she plunges into the frigid water with only a fallen log for support. She can't swim, but she has not choice- not with Lafayetter Breaux on her trail. As the fastest of the hounds spots Maria, Breaux's furious bice rises above their deafening din: "Find her! FIND HER!" Sold as an indentured servant...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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An illustrated account of the life of John Howland, the young servant who was indentured to Pilgrim John Carver, describes how he embarked on the Mayflower and survived a fall off the ship before helping his ill shipmates by scouting out a safe harbor.
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
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In 1352 England, seventeen-year-old Annabel, granddaughter of a knight and a would-be nun, eludes a lecherous bailiff but falls in love with Lord Le Wyse, the ferocious and disfigured man to whom her family owes three years of indentured servitude, in this tale loosely based on Beauty and the Beast.
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