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Glory Land volume 2
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In South Florida, a region that offers some of life's richest beauty as well as some of its harshest conditions, a city is rising. Eve and Max Harjo moved to Miami after the great freeze of 1894 wiped out their citrus grove. Eve is busy writing for the Miami Metropolis, Miami's first newspaper, while Max salvages the ships that fall victim to Florida's dangerous reefs and violent storms. Their nineteen-year-old daughter Eliza dives to bring up the...
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"Miami in the 1920's is a city with two faces. By day, it's a dazzling beacon of industry; when the sun goes down, neon signs flash and decadence reigns. As Prohibition takes hold, speakeasies and illicit distilleries spring up alongside lavish mansions. Nothing can slow the influx of tourists thirsty for strong liquor--or quell the greed of those eager to provide it. Caught between these two worlds, and two very different men, beautiful Lily Strickland...
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"When Kathryn Cavanaugh steps over the threshold of the Pelham Sanatorium in 1954, she has no idea when, or if, she will ever leave it again. Despite the rise of promising new treatments, Tuberculosis is still feared and often fatal. But twenty-four-year-old Kate has proven her resilience before, leaving her Blue Ridge Mountain home for a very different life in the city with her ambitious attorney husband, Geoffrey. For the sake of her family, especially...
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"As the 20th century dawns, the world is transformed in dizzying ways. But nestled in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains is a place, and a family, out of time--where one young girl will grow to face the challenges of each generation before her--and discover whether she has the strength to overcome them..."
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