The Kitchen House A Novel

Kathleen GRISSOM

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

The Kitchen House: A Novel (Library Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

This stunning debut novel set in the antebellum South, is a tragic story of page-turning suspense, exploring the meaning of family, where love and loyalty prevail. Orphaned while onboard a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia deeply bonds with her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house and she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.

The Kitchen House

Blackstone Pub

Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House

The latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House is a heart racing story about a man's treacherous journey through the twists and turns of the Underground Railroad on a mission to save the boy he swore to protect. Glory Over Everything is "gripping...breathless until the end" (Kirkus Reviews). The year is 1830 and Jamie Pyke, a celebrated silversmith and notorious ladies' man, is keeping a deadly secret. Passing as a wealthy white aristocrat in Philadelphian society, Jamie is now living a life he could never have imagined years before when he was a runaway slave, son of a southern black slave and her master. But Jamie's carefully constructed world is threatened when he discovers that his married socialite lover, Caroline, is pregnant and his beloved servant Pan, to whose father Jamie owes his own freedom, has been captured and sold into slavery in the South. Fleeing the consequences of his deceptions, Jamie embarks on a trip to a North Carolina plantation to save Pan from the life he himself barely escaped as a boy. With the help of a fearless slave, Sukey, who has taken the terrified young boy under her wing, Jamie navigates their way, racing against time and their ruthless pursuers through the Virginia backwoods, the Underground Railroad, and the treacherous Great Dismal Swamp. "Kathleen Grissom is a first-rate storyteller...she observes with an unwavering but kind eye, and she bestows upon the reader, amid terrible secrets and sin, a gift of mercy: the belief that hope can triumph over hell" (Richmond Times Dispatch). Glory Over Everything is an emotionally rewarding and epic novel "filled with romance, villains, violence, courage, compassion...and suspense." (Florida Courier).

Atria Books

Glory Over Everything Beyond The Kitchen House

Simon&Schuster

Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin.Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.The Kitchen House is a tragic story of page-turning suspense, exploring the meaning of family, where love and loyalty prevail.

Contemporary

Doubleday Large Print

États-Unis, 1791. Lavinia, jeune orpheline irlandaise, se retrouve domestique dans une plantation de tabac. Placée avec les esclaves noirs de la cuisine, sous la protection de Belle, la fille illégitime du maître, elle grandit dans la tendresse de cette nouvelle famille. Cependant, Lavinia ne peut faire oublier la blancheur de sa peau : elle pénètre peu à peu dans l'univers de la grande maison et côtoie deux mondes que tout oppose. Jusqu'au jour où une histoire d'amour fait tout basculer... Le petit monde de la plantation est mis à feu et à sang, de dangereuses vérités sont dévoilées, des vies sont menacées...

La Colline aux esclaves (French Edition)

Marie-Axelle (de) LA ROCHEFOUCAULD (Traduction)

United States

French and European Publications Inc

La colline aux esclaves

Guy Saint-Jean Editeur

Il mondo di Belle

Neri Pozza

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