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A place called freedom / Ken Follett.
Working in the mines of the Scottish highlands, Mack hungers for freedom, when he is arrested for rioting. Sent to the American colonies as a convict, he finds an unlikely ally in Lizzie, a willful young aristocratic woman who yearns to get away from her own kind of hell.
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only ally: the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom. From the teeming streets of London to the infernal hold of a slave ship to a sprawling Virginia plantation, Ken Follett’s turbulent, unforgettable novel of liberty and revolution brings together a vivid cast of heroes and villains, lovers and rebels, hypocrites and hell-raisers—all propelled by destiny toward an epic struggle that will change their lives forever. - "Goodreads"
Record details
- ISBN: 9780517701768
- ISBN: 9780449225158 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0517701766
- ISBN: 0449225151 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 407 p. : map ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers : c1995.
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| Target Audience Note: | Adult |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Love stories. |
| Topic Heading: | AF |
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- 9 of 11 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Elkford Public Library | FC FOL (Text) | 35170000148270 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Before Ken Follett burst onto the book world in 1978 with Eye of the Needle , he was a little-known novelist who had written ten books, all under pseudonyms, in his spare time. Eye of the Needle became an international bestseller, won the Edgar Award, and was made into a major film starring Kate Nelligan and Donald Sutherland.
The critical and popular success of that novel and its follow-ups, Triple (1979), The Key to Rebecca (1980), The Man from St. Petersburg (1982), and Lie Down with Lions (1986), moved Follett to the forefront of the world's espionage novelists. The Key to Rebecca was made into a mini-series starring Cliff Robertson and David Soul. Follett's first nonfiction ven
