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While You Were Out begins as the personal story of one family's struggles then opens outward

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It's seared into Atlee Pine's memory: the kidnapper's chilling rhyme as he chose between six-year-old Atlee and her twin sister

Kindness is inclusion

administration after administration has passed the buck

WATER DANCER 6-33-HD563WA While You Were Out beginsYoung Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns, that power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram to escape from the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery. Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved,