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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking"--
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female 'volunteers' of childbearing age-orphans, prisoners, and mental patients-to be shipped to New Orleans. Among this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year...
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