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03794aim a2200433Ka 4500 001 21EDE56CB99111ED87B4EF6C3AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230303010050 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 221102s2023 nyu s 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0593675282 020 $a 9780593675281 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a FIC044000 $a FIC019000 $a FIC044000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Shearer, Eleanor. 245 10 $a River sing me home $h [electronic resource]. $c Eleanor Shearer. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b Books on Tape, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource (9 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 10:35:53 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Debra Michaels. 520 $a A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery is a “celebration of motherhood and female resilience” ( The Observer ). “A powerful novel that explores how freedom and family are truly defined”—Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Real Simple , Goodreads, AARP, Boston.com, BookBub and BookRiot   Her search begins with an ending.… The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs.   Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children—the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children...and her freedom. 538 $a Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 298107 KB). 650 17 $a Fiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Historical Fiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Literature. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Michaels, Debra. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=9090349 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=92eef714-721b-4766-aa96-df120af73016&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/%7B92EEF714-721B-4766-AA96-DF120AF73016%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/%7B92EEF714-721B-4766-AA96-DF120AF73016%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/92eef714-721b-4766-aa96-df120af73016 $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230303010126.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=21EDE56CB99111ED87B4EF6C3AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search