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"In The Yankee Widow, gifted storyteller Linda Lael Miller explores the complexities and heartbreak that families experienced as men took up arms to preserve the nation and defend their way of life. Told in a smart, assured and compelling voice, this is the story of Caroline, the young wife and childhood sweetheart of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter, Rachel, just outside of Gettysburg. When Jacob joins the Northern army to...
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Ben Butterfield, ex-circus performer, is living out his days in a small backwater town. He spends much of his time dwelling on the past, pondering his glory days with the circus, and his first grand adventure-an odyssey across Missouri and Illinois to Bright Star, Indiana, during the Civil War. It was a journey that laid the groundwork for the man he would become, and on which he got to know the two people who meant the world to him, and still do.
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3) Lincoln Raw
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Soul of a poet, son of a farmer Abraham Lincoln's early life, as he might have told it had he been so inclined Inescapably human, Abraham Lincoln tells his own coming-of-age story-he's nerdy, eccentric, awkward, rustic, vulnerable, depressed, sly, witty, brilliant, driven. Lincoln Raw-a biographical novel proves that no matter what raw materials we're made of or what mistakes we make along our journeys, our values, not our circumstances, determine...
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Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom
By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded
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It may have appeared that the Sinkey family had tamed the twisted, but with a war disrupting their world as much as the tornado, there's even more to unravel. Alice Sinkey, Abigail's younger sister, gets the chance to tell her story in Taming the Twisted Two: Reconstructing Rain – from her estranged relationship with her best friend to dealing with a scoundrel she thought had left their lives forever, so she can leave her family safe when she escapes...
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"1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if he knew of her clandestine activities, Stella has to hide not only her efforts but her love for William, a Black soldier and a brilliant musician. Meanwhile, in New York City, a Jewish woman stitches a quilt for her husband,...
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This historically accurate espionage thriller follows a group of abolitionists who enact a plan to inspire a slave revolt
The period just before the Civil War was a time of dark division that challenged the essence of our American Democracy, much like our divided country of today.
In New England during the antebellum period also known as the plantation era before the Civil War, Josh and Emily, two young white abolitionists,
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Taming the Twisted is written in a similar style to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books though updated for modern times. It might read as if she'd left in all of the juicy tidbits about things people didn't talk about during the time when she was writing. Taming the Twisted is a story of destruction, romance, mystery, and deceit set against a back drop of an actual historical event. In early June, 1860, Abigail enjoyed a peaceful home life with...
10) Chickamauga
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Chickamauga:
A Novel of the American Civil War
Just after first light on the morning of September 18th, 1863, in the deep woods on the banks of Chickamauga Creek, a single brigade of Federal infantry stumbled into a full division of Confederate cavalry, and so began one of the bloodiest conflicts of the American Civil War. The result? A huge victory for the Confederate army. The cost? More than 37,000 casualties; the Battle of Chickamauga was the...
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"Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. John's beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered. Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness, and wore a badge in the name of the law. But the man John...
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"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
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Travis lives isolated in the Allegheny Mountains in the mid-1800s. He loves God, loves his family, and is well respected by all on the mountain. But one decision- for the right reason-causes his unintentional entry into the Civil War. While he fights to survive in a hostile environment, his family has a fight of their own. Travis returns home to find most of his family gone.
Now he must find a way to help his injured daughter. He has no one to...
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"In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
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Han pasado más de 83 años desde el comienzo de la Guerra Civil Española y todavía sigue de actualidad todo lo relacionado sobre ella. La huerta de La Paloma es una novela histórica que trata, a través de la narración de una etapa importante de la vida de nuestro protagonista, Eduardo, mostrar mediante sus experiencias personales, una visión particular del entorno que le tocó vivir, un conflicto civil provocado por unos pocos y que repercutió...
16) Gettysburg
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What lessons do we learn from the Battle of Gettysburg? What are the leadership principles that emerge out of contest that transcends time and space? Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address said, "that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion." This book deals with leadership principles that apply across different venues of leadership including, Church leadership, government,...
17) Once Struck
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Nebraska, 1873 Peach MaCauley has only 49 acrees of wheat standing between her and becoming a poor relation. On the eve of the harvest a storm threatens her crop--and her independence. Only one mans steps forward to help her. A man she isn't sure she should trust. Kit Taggart is no longer the dirt poor boy with soulful brown eyes who kissed her behind the church at the Fourth of July social. Now he's a handsome and hard-edged ex-soldier. His price...
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The enormous and seemingly impossible struggle migrants exhibited in their desire and herculean effort to obtain new opportunities and prosperity for them and their heirs is portrayed in detail. The life-and-death efforts our forefathers put into each mile traveled is brought to life. The seemingly insurmountable obstacles these brave and hardy pioneers faced leaps off every page.
The true almost-superhuman accomplishments and occasional tragedies...
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Most books about Abraham Lincoln are non-fiction. Those that are fiction only explored certain quirks about Lincoln, but none explored in-depth the change of Lincoln's thought patterns as he overcame his melancholy and doubts about his self-worth. My inspiration comes from knowing people who have taken the time to develop lives of significance through strong moral values being expressed to others as they live out their lives. Those on the receiving...
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Two cultures met in Minnesota-one striving to maintain its homeland and traditions, another trying to create a life of freedom, prosperity, and abundance.
Samuel Copeland was just a teenager in 1859 when he and his family left Vermont for the promise of a new life in Minnesota. But life is harder and more dangerous than he expected. Devastated by the loss of his father at the hands of Indians and seeking to protect his brother, Samuel joins the...