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Bradleyville series volume 1
Language
English
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Ever since her mother's death, Jessie has dreamed of leaving the small town where she lived with her aunt and uncle in order to follow in her mother's footsteps serving the homeless, but when a labor strike threatens the town and Jessie must choose between staying and supporting her aunt and uncle and living her dream.
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English
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"Meet three pioneering in women Kentucky during the 1830s who are barely holding on to their faith. Pam moves from Virginia with family, but soon finds herself alone. Prudence lives in comfort until she learns of her father's misdeeds. Katherine harbors a dark past she cannot disclose. Will each woman find a godly man to come alongside her and help her mend a broken heart?"--Publisher's description.
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English
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Determined to create a new "clean" world, Daniel Boone, who was born and raised among Quakers on the colonial American frontier, leads an expansion west across the Appalachians--first as a hunter pursuing abundant wildlife, then as a father looking for a home for his beloved wife and children--which is plagued by brutality, violence and death.
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Series
The Kentuckians volume 01
Language
English
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A historical novel, first published in 1953, which examines the lives of the frontiersmen who struggled to settle western Virginia in the 1770s through the story of David Cooper, a young friend of Daniel Boone, who hopes to build a farm and family in the wilderness.
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Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Set in the mountainous region of Kentucky of the late 1950s, this book is filled with acts of violence, hate, love, and joy. The savagery and the intertwining of the close-knit families of the clans of the hills is wonderfully depicted through the eyes of a former insider. Two feuding families of Kentucky clash when the son of a murdered man returns to his mountain home.
Author
Series
Racing to freedom trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
In Kentucky, during the Civil War, the twelve-year-old slave Gabriel, contends with a cruel new horse trainer and skirmishes with Confederate soldiers as he pursues his dream of becoming a jockey.
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English
Description
In the summer of 1864, at the border of Ohio and Kentucky, two lovers--Janet Todd, a courier/evangelist in a revolutionary conspiracy, and Major Paul Stapleton, a cavalry commander in charge of hunting Union deserters--must make desperate choices in the midst of guerrilla warfare conducted by Northerners against the Union during the Civil War.
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