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2) Amistad
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In the Spring of 1839, 53 African captives, led by Cinque, revolt on the Spanish slave ship Amistad. Captured off the Eastern Seaboard, they find themselves strangers in a strange land and victums of the American system and its president, Martin Van Buren. Van Buren struggling for his reelection is willing to sacrifice the Africans to appease the pro-slavery south. the Africans with their lawyer and abolitionist friends battle all the way to the...
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c2008
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Thimblejack is angry. His quiet home as been turned upside down, Invaded by several noisy, troublesome creatures - a family, in fact, known as the Graces. The one who's causing the most trouble is a boy named Jared. And when Jared takes the book that Thimbletack has spent his whole life guarding, the house brownie decides that it's time to take action!
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2008
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"Silvia Broome is an interpreter at the United Nations. One night she hears a plan to kill the President of the African state of Matobo. Agent Tobin Keller of the US Secret Service must stop the killers. But is Silvia telling the truth? Is she hiding something from him? Is she more dangerous than the President's other enemies?"
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