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02224aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 F7050432471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200204010450 008 200122s2020 meu ed 000 f eng 020 $a 1432873385 020 $a 9781432873387 035 $a (OCoLC)1137263208 040 $a BKL $b eng $e rda $c BKL $d BKL $d OMN $d IWB $d SILO 100 1 $a Woods, Rita, $e author. 245 10 $a Remembrance $h [large print] / $c Rita Woods. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2020. 300 $a 677 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 340 $n large print $2 rdafs. 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print African-American. 520 $a "Remembrance...It's a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy...if you can make it there. Ohio, present day. A refugee struggling to rebuild her life in America after the devastating Haitian earthquake is suddenly inexplicably bound to a mysterious old woman who is not at all what she seems. Haiti, 1791, on the brink of revolution. When the slave Abigail is forced from her children to take her mistress to safety, she discovers New Orleans has its own powers. 1857 New Orleans-a city of unrest: Following tragedy, house girl Margot is sold just before her 18th birthday and her promised freedom. Desperate, she escapes and chases a whisper.... Remembrance"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Fugitive slaves $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Slave insurrections $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Earthquakes $z Haiti $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Underground Railroad $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Haiti $x History $y Revolution, 1791-1804. 651 0 $a New Orleans (La.) $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Large type books. 650 0 $a Fiction. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 650 0 $a Novels. 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print African-American series. 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20200204032134.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F7050432471C11EA8C4E586797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search