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In 218 BCE, Hannibal took his army, along with 37 elephants, over the Alps to attack the Romans. Eleven years before this historic event, on the banks of a river near Carthage in North Africa, one of his elephants pulled a drowning girl from the turbulent waters. Thus began Liada’s epic journey with the elephant known as Obolus.
"This is the story of my life as a young girl following Hannibal and his army from Carthage in North Africa to Iberia, and then over the Alps toward Rome. I never reached Rome, but then neither did Hannibal. I left him after the battle of Trebbia, taking with me his last remaining elephant, Obolus, and my friend, the slave girl Tin Tin Ban Sunia. This book recounts the first month of our long journey." | |  | | Oxana's Pit
Oxana uses forced labor to operate an illegal mine in the Amazon. Her open-pit excavation is on land owned by Echo Forests, an environmental company based in New York City and controlled by Kennitosh Scarborough (Tosh). When he discovers Oxana's pit on a satellite photo, Tosh goes to investigate and is captured by Oxana's thugs. One of Tosh's employees, Amber Bravant, organizes a search for him. She is also taken prisoner by Oxana. Tosh and Amber's escape is engineered by two Yanomami children who Tosh had befriended before his capture.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">This story is about Kennitosh Scarborough (Tosh) and Amber, one of a set of triplets. Tosh is a wealthy single man of twenty-eight. He’s an environmentalist and businessman owning a controlling interest in Echo Forests, Inc., a corporation that concentrates on purchasing or leasing large tracts of the rain forest to prevent its destruction. His second company, a start-up, will produce a magazine called Orphan. He hires the triplets to manage the three departments in his new company./span>
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On a cold December morning in 1925, Vincent Fusilier finds Raji sleeping in his parents' barn. He thinks she's a vagrant and tells her she has to go. She doesn't understand English and doesn't know where she is, having recently escaped from a house in Queens New York where she had been held for the past nine years as an indentured servant. After Vincent leaves for school, Raji slips into his house to find something to eat. She peeks into the front room and is startled to see a man sitting in a wheelchair. He stares at her but apparently cannot move or speak.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Raji ran away from a house in Queens New York where she had been held as an indentured servant for the past nine years. She was kidnapped on the streets of Calcutta when she was five years old. Raji and several other girls were then shipped to New York City where she was sold to a wealthy Indian family to work as an indentured servant./span>
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Born in Salt
by T. Weber
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 In a post-coup America, an Illinois farm boy is drawn into the resistance by his brother's death. Captured, he is given a choice: betray his friends, or the girl he loves will be lobotomized. |
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Gilded Prisons
by Linda Gould
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 Major League ballplayer Justin Moore is kidnapped from his own ballpark and transported to a foreign land. It might take high-level international negotiations to free him. Or maybe he will take matters into his own hands. |
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