A 2013 staff fiction favorite recommended by Melissa H. and Connie.

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A 2013 staff fiction favorite recommended by Becky K.

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A 2013 staff fiction favorite recommended by Heather B., Andrea and Jo.

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A 2013 staff fiction favorite recommended by staffers Ellen J. and Connie. Read Ellen's review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/552059614

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A staff fiction favorite recommended by Heather B.

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A 2013 staff fiction favorite recommended by Connie and Mary T.

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A 2013 staff fiction favorite recommended by Haley.

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A 2013 staff fiction favorite recommended by Susie and Connie.

Susie's review: Oh my goodness. This was an incredible book. Wash is the name of a slave circa 1812-1830ish. He is saltwater, meaning he came over on the ocean (in his mother's womb actually) and was not born from a country born slave (meaning someone who was already enslaved in the U.S. when they were born).

His mother gives him many ways to cope with the hard hard life he is put to, using traditional African spirituality. Richardson, his owner, puts him to work that almost completely breaks him, as a breeding sire hired out to neighboring slave owners, but it is his mother's ways, and a special relationship with a slavewoman healer, Pallas, that ultimately allows him to retain his own humanity for himself. This was a beautiful book.

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A 2013 staff nonfiction favorite recommended by Jane.

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A 2013 staff nonfiction favorite recommended by Jane.

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