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3) The belles of New England: the women of the textile mills and the families whose wealth they wove
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 345 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on new evidence, Warren links the growth of the northern colonies to the Atlantic slave trade, demonstrating how New England's economy derived its vitality from the profusion of slave-trading ships coursing through its ports. Warren documents how Indians were systematically sold into slavery in the West Indies and reveals how colonial families like the Winthrops were motivated not only by religious freedom but also by their slave-trading investments....
Author
Series
Monstrumologist volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vii, 366 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the first Europeans settled in America, they found themselves often sick, weak, and likely to die. Here, Ben Mutschler explores how illness shaped society and government in New England from roughly 1690 through 1820. He focuses on the building blocks of society and government-family, household, town, colony-and their multifaceted engagements with the problems that diseases caused. Illness both defined and strained early American institutions,...
13) Unravelling
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
17) Born wicked
Author
Series
Cahill witch chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.
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