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Post civil war Washington is left reeling after the assassination of Lincoln. For Mirinda Caldwell the torment hits far too close to home when her brother is accused and sentenced to hang for his part in the horrible act. Determined to keep him from his fate, she will do whatever necessary to see himfree.For Heath Falstaff, the beautiful Mirinda Caldwell is both beguiling and mysterious. She is also a murderer, poisoning the men who stand in the way...
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The year 1885 ushered in dramatic changes for the utopic city of Austin. Dramatic racial lines blurred from the Civil War and the introduction of the railroad brought new challenges and excitement to those who ventured into the rolling hills of Texas. Yet, there was evil lurking, watching in the shadows, waiting to pounce on the defenseless. A homicidal executioner stalked the nights, dragging women and sometimes even children from their beds. The...
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Set in North Carolina and Virginia in the 1860s, Staton's Civil War novel explores the budding love of Confederate Private Bill Stamford for two women amidst the carnage of war.When the death-predicting halo around Confederate soldier Bill Stamford's buddy, Daniel, turns out to be true, the private turns to a nurse for aid. The nurse, Franny Neale, misses her fiancé fighting out west and seeks companionship in Bill's arms. After a blissful night...
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Set in the year 1865, as the Civil War draws to a close, 1865 New York City Kid follows the story of 16-year-old Daniel Kelly. Born and raised in the slums of New York City, Daniel, known as 'Kid' among his friends, yearns for something beyond the monotonous life he's known. Working for the New York Tribune, like his late father before him, Daniel finds himself disillusioned, especially after a much-anticipated promotion eludes him. It's at this...
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Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, Daren Wang's The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to take over the household duties and management of her family's...
6) Diamond Duty
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In the spring of 1861, nineteen-year-old Caleb Dillard leaves his bride of a few months to fight for the Confederacy with the Eighth Virginia Infantry Regiment, but his part of the war only lasts ten minutes as he and some of his comrades are captured near Fairfax Courthouse and put in the Old Capitol Prison. There he not only experiences hardship and camaraderie with his fellow soldiers, but also learns to play baseball, a game the Union soldiers...
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Question everything, Ernestine vows while growing up in a Poland ravaged by the Napoleonic wars. Accept nothing blindly.
Rejecting her rabbi father's religion and an arranged marriage, Ernestine strikes out on her own, arriving in New York in 1836. Distressed by the injustices around her, she takes to the public speaking platform, pressing for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights alongside activists like Frederick Douglass, Susan B....
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As she enters the Commencement Ball at West Point Military Academy on a spring evening in 1837, in her pink gown with white silk roses and ropes of pearls, Cecelia Stovall looks---and feels---like the perfect, innocent Southern belle. Little does she know that at that dance she will meet the man who will change her life---and the lives of all her fellow Southerners---forever. Cecelia falls instantly in love with the dashing young Northern cadet, William...
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A Novel of Triumph over Tragedy
Inspired by Rebecca Pomroy's journal, letters & recollections
Based on real lives, real places, and actual events
Rebecca Pomroy overcomes thirty years of debilitating grief to become an army nurse during the American Civil War, bringing hope and healing to countless soldiers. But when she encounters the weight of anguish borne by President and Mrs. Lincoln in the aftermath of their son's death, she faces...
10) Pursuing Justice
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A western set shortly after the Cicil War that has werstern themes as well as Christian life and some romance.
11) Alligator Creek
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On a foggy spring morning in 1862, Sarah Browning watches a train leave Lake City, Florida, heading northeast and full of Confederate soldiers. On board is her husband, Alex, crowded into a boxcar with fellow recruits and imagining the terrors awaiting him in Manassas, Gettysburg, Olustee, and the Wilderness. With Alex on the battlefield, Sarah uses her wit and Christian faith to sustain her family through innumerable hardships, made all the more...
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Josef Fleischer's ideal life is turned upside down when dreams and visions begin to haunt his nights. At first, they are specters of waging war-him, his father and those other Oregon volunteers who fought the Indians on the Palouse back in '56. Josef thought he had put all this behind him decades ago-the war, the killing, Yellow Bird, and the warrior. But when the warrior appears in a daytime vision, promising that Yellow Bird will be avenged, Josef...
13) Long remember
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Long Remember is the first realistic novel about the Civil War. Originally published in 1934, this book received rave reviews from the NY Times Book Review, and was a main selection of the Literary Guild. It is the account of the Battle of Gettysburg, as viewed by a pacifist who comes to accept the nasty necessity of combat. Kantor has also interwoven love and lust into this remarkable tale of passion, heroes, and a bloody battle.
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14) Meridian
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New ways to make a fortune and settle old scores. A lie will travel around the world before the truth reaches your next-door neighbor. So says Ivan Lukin's boss at Fort St. Michael on the Bering Sea. But the rumors have proven true; the United States of America has purchased Russian America from the Czar and renamed it Alaska. Now, as the colony erupts in chaos, everyone has a decision to make: Do I stay, or do I go back to Russia? Lukin, like most...
16) Bitter's Run
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John Bitter scanned the hilltops with his field glasses, blaming unfamiliar territory for his uneasy feelings, but past experience taught him not to ignore his hunches. Something's brewing, he thought.
Following Lee's surrender of the Northern Army of Virginia to Grant on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, Captain John Bitter of Abiqua Creek, Oregon musters out of the 40th Missouri. A loner, Bitter plans a quick ride home over the Oregon Trail. The good...
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"I've known Paul my whole life," he answered with a wry grin. In North to Cheyenne, you followed the Rankins as they settled on their ranch and built a small community of friends. West by Rail leads you through the next phase of their lives as their community and families grow with some unexpected twists and turns along the way. It is 1870. The Civil War ended five years ago; both the North and South are trying to deal with the loss of life and livelihood....
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Enjoy the entire Ironwood Plantation Family Saga in one complete set:Contains all three Ironwood Novels:The Whistle WalkHeir of HopeMissing Mercy Book One: The Whistle WalkIn a time where unity seems impossible, two women will forge a friendship in the fires of redemption and thrust Ironwood into a new future-where the battle for freedom has merely begun. Stolen from her home and forced into the disgrace of being sold, Ruth refuses to let go of the...
19) Rail Music
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Utah, 1869. Forging the next chapter in a country that doesn't seem to want them, Liam Gallagher leads a group of Irish settlers laying the Transcontinental Railroad.Behind them: Unforgiving winters of the Great Plains and the West, Indian raids, sickness, death.Ahead of them: The final push toward Promontory, where the western and eastern efforts of the railroad meet, and a contest of wills and of great financial reward looms. The promise of a whole...
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In 1902 Bass Reeves was a living legend. At 64 years old his more than thirty-year career as a Deputy US Marshal to the Indian Territories of Oklahoma was winding down. Bass Reeves had captured more than three thousand outlaws, murderers, thieves, and rapists keeping the "Hanging Judge Parker" busy with a steady flow of convicted men. Old Judge Parker was gone, like many of Bass' friends, but he kept on doing what he did best. Capturing malcontents...