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A rediscovered classic, and the only known novel by Black abolitionist and political exile Louis Timagène Houat, The Maroons is a fervid account of slavery and escape on nineteenth-century Réunion Island.Frême is a young African man forced into slavery on Réunion, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Plagued by memories of his childhood sweetheart, a white woman named Marie, Frême seeks her outbut when they are persecuted for their love, the two flee into the forest. There they meet other maroons: formerly enslaved people and courageous rebels who have chosen freedom at the risk of their lives.Now available in English for the first time, The Maroons highlights slavery's abject conditions under the French empire, and attests to the widespread phenomenon of enslaved people escaping captivity to forge a new life beyond the reach of so-called civilization. Banned by colonial authorities at the time of its publication in 1844,

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Melia is spellbound by the stuffed wildcat in her family's living roomher cousin swears that it comes to life and roams the streets at night. When she finds a signed note from the animal with secret instructions, a thrilling and dangerous adventure begins.For Melia and her sister Myrto, summer means a break from Grandfather's history lessons and weeks of running free at the seaside with their ragtag group of friends. Best of all, cousin Nikos will visit and tell his fabulous stories about the taxidermied wildcat, which opens its blue glass eye when it wants to do good deeds and its black one when it makes trouble. The black eye must be open lately because all the adults have been acting strangely, arguing about politics and fearful of the police. Soon even the children are dividedwho can Melia trust? And can the wildcat help keep her family safe?Set in Greece during the 1930s, when the nation was torn apart by fascism, The Wildcat Behind Glass

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Debut thriller, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. With echoes of Lawrence Osborne and Graham Greene . . . brutally and wrenchingly captures the consequences of modern amorality and the sacrifices we make for redemption. A tale that's determined not to let you go.- I.S. Berry, author of The Peacock and the Sparrow

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