master and servant

Venture Delving is a bonded servant, a member of the lowest class in the world. Already fatherless, when he loses his mother, he veers from energetic to out of control. But when Venture's rage saves the life of Jade, his best friend and his master's daughter, Venture finds himself in the last place he ever expected -- a center renowned for training young boys to be professional fighters. When Venture realizes he's fallen in love with Jade, he knows that the only way he'll ever have her, the only way he'll ever be free to live the life he's meant to live, is to defy convention, common sense, the trust of those he cares about most -- and sometimes the law -- and become the best fighter in the world, the Champion of All Richland. Venture must battle not only rival fighters, but the ghosts of his past and the members of a privileged warrior class who stand between him and his dream. -- page [4] of cover.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic anti-slavery novel about the realities of slavery in the pre-Civil War South.

Relates the trials, suffering and human dignity of Uncle Tom, an old Negro slave, who is cruelly treated by a Yankee overseer resulting in his death.

Post-World War II Vienna sets the scene for this thriller about an American novelist who comes to Europe for what he thinks is the funeral of an old friend and finds himself entangled in a spiralling web of international intrigue.

Uncle Tom, a slave in the American South, maintains his dignity despite the suffering and eventual death brought upon him by the cruel treatment of a Yankee overseer.

Presents the classic novel by William Faulkner about the tragic life of Caddy Compson, as told through her three brothers--neurotic, suicidal Quentin; mentally-disabled Bengy; and brutal Jason.

Once a slave, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. Yet this young girl has much to learn about the difference between slavery and service.

Depicts the unlikely friendship between Olivier, an aristocratic survivor of the French Revolution, and Parrot, the motherless son of an itinerant English printer who meet when they come to America. Their shifting narratives describe their adventures apart and together and describes the newly founded American democracy.