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Author
Series
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In 1943, ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs, she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. These commodities--namely tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton, among others--enriched European and US economies; contributed to the material and monetary wealth of the nation's founding...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"American lucifers tracks how struggles to produce light transformed American history, beginning with the rise of the American whale fishery in the 1750s and culminating in the emergence, around the Civil War, of the petroleum industry and its primary product, kerosene. Between this shift from oil harvested from whales to oil extracted from rocks, American light was substantially derived from a substance called camphene, a highly explosive liquid...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerrilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"BLOOD AND EARTH is a gripping account of the deadly link between slavery and environmental destruction. Kevin Bales is a social scientist, human rights activist, and journalist -- and he's also one of the world's leading experts on modern slavery. In his work he began to notice the connection between environmental decline and slavery: the two almost always went hand-in-hand, whether in the hellish gold mines of Ghana or the miraculously beautiful...