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"Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the...
2) Half life
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
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On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking. Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than a year, Aruna heads to Heathrow, where she boards a plane bound for Singapore and her old life. Educated and beautiful, Aruna has a desperate need to risk...
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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Widescreen version (aspect ratio 1.85:1) on side A; full-screen version on side B.
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When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance.
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Lancaster Brides volume 1, 2, 3, 4
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
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Travel the Pennsylvania back roads and buggy trails with four young women in the Amish community--women struggling to discover their own place in the world while finding true love in the process.
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
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A 1910s mixed marriage between Hope Newfield of Los Angeles and Leon Po-yo, a Chinese nobleman who is her student. They move to China where he becomes a revolutionary and she a journalist. But in China there is racism and she returns to the United States with the children. She will go back, only to discover each has his own destiny.
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
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First Vintage Books edition.
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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