Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)The best selling classic about a mixed race child in the Civil Warera South that chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage (New York Times Book Review). Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the antebellum South in both its opulence and its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction. Weaving her own familys oral history

I’m more than just bits of wood and string

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Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens

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The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living proves that you don’t have to win the lottery or get a new job to change your life

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Cece loves science—and experimenting

She enlists the reluctant help of family friend Logan Heath

700 black children denied an education

Elusive bachelor Luke Craig refuses to be tied down

Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas is a celebration of the strength

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