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The kitchen house / Kathleen Grissom.
"When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk." -- Provided by the Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781439153666 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781615238941
- Physical Description: 368 p. ; 21cm.
- Edition: 1st Touchstone trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Touchstone Books, c2010.
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes a reading group guide, author's notes, and recipes. "Author was born and raised in Saskatchewan, Canada."--p. [4] of cover |
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| Subject: | Orphans > Fiction. Indentured servants > Fiction. Slaves > Fiction. Plantation life > Southern States > Fiction. Southern States > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. |
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- 21 of 24 copies available at Sitka.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| McBride | Fic Gri (Text) | 35191000171740 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Beaver Valley Public Library | F GRI (Text) | 35144000031505 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bibliotheque St. Claude Library | PBKGRI (Text) | 36725000155192 | Paperback | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | AF GRI (Text) | 35198000598590 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Reshelving | - |
| Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | F GRI (Text) | DCL140163 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. James Public Library | GRI (Text) | 35196000301684 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. John Public Library | AF GRI (Text) | 35211000139420 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-07-12 |
| Galiano Island Community Library | FIC GRI (Text) | 33127000122392 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Hudson's Hope Public Library | FIC FIC GRI (Text) | BHH034647 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Midway Public Library | FIC TRA(HC) GRI (Text) | 35143000231123 | Adult Hardcover Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
