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Ribbons of steel volume 2
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English
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Carolina Adams clung to the distant dream of America's westward expansion with the railroad as a promise for a bright future. But she finds life at Oakbridge, the family plantation, nearly unbearable. Confronted by overwhelming tragedies and injustices, as well as the loss of her first true love, Carolina struggles through her broken dreams to find a hope beyond.After breaking his wedding engagement with Virginia, Carolina's older sister, James Baldwin...
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March, 1850. In the tense days before the Civil War, a slave breakout in the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore sets loose a riveting drama of violence, hope, and redemption among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz Spocott, a beautiful runaway slave, shot and near death, is wracked by disturbing visions of the future as she lies shackled to an old woman in the prison attic of the notorious...
3) Chesapeake
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English
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The four-hundred-year saga of America's Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the present. The central scene of Michener's historical novel is that section of Maryland's Eastern shore, hardly more than 10 miles square. To this point come the founders of families that will dominate the story. A panoramic narrative of human and animal life on Maryland's Eastern Shore focuses on a ten-square-mile area at the mouth of the Choptank River and...
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In 1784 peace has been declared, but war still rages in the heart of Lark Benton. Never did Lark think she'd want to escape Emerson Fielding, the man she's loved all her life, but then he betrays her with her cousin. She flees to Annapolis, Maryland, the country's capital, and throws herself into a new circle of friends who force her to examine all she believes. Emerson follows, determined to reclaim his bride. Surprised when she refuses to return...
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2004.
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English
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Imagines the life of Cassandra van Pradelles, based on family papers that sketch the story of the daughter of a wealthy Maryland plantation owner who became estranged from her family after eloping with a French soldier, and who later became involved with the pirate Jean Lafitte who is reputed to have been responsible for her death in 1815.
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2011.
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English
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In 1784 peace has been declared, but war still rages in the heart of Lark Benton. Never did Lark think she d want to escape Emerson Fielding, the man she's loved all her life, but then he betrays her with her cousin. She flees to Annapolis, Maryland, the country's capital, and throws herself into a new circle of friends who force her to examine all she believes. Emerson follows, determined to reclaim his bride. Surprised when she refuses to return...
7) Loose lips
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English
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The tale of two sisters in a Southern town during World War II. They are always bickering and have to open a beauty salon to pay for a soda fountain they demolished during a fight. On Civil Air Patrol duty they sound the siren, mistaking a flight of geese for German dive bombers.
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2024.
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English
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In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug, it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and...
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Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress.
1859. When war ignites the nation, Georgeanne "Georgey" Woolsey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women a bother on the battlefront. She and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become...
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2014.
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English
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The Dubray family lived in a grand home, Hill Crest, near the town of Colchester, a day's ride from London England. Leaving England, they sailed to the former English colonies in America. There, they made their new home in the state of Maryland. They believed their new home would be a horse farm, but were they ever surprised to arrive at a spacious plantation located near Shady Side, a small town on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay!
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2006, 2005.
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English
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Love isn't always a simple process as these novellas from Murray demonstrate. Will Raleigh Alden let his reputation get in the way of true love? What happens when Otis Rath reveals the true reason for visiting his longtime pen pal, Katherine Jones? Will dashing Byron Gates past flirtations and gambling end any hopes for a future with Vera Howard?
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Series
Erika Lehmann volume 04
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the months just after the end of WWII, two deadly and cunning women find themselves pitted against each other in a lethal game of cat-and-mouse. One was Nazi Germany's top spy now working for the United States: her opponent , Soviet Russia's most feared assassin ... Set at the dawn of the Cold War...Former Nazi spy Erika Lehmann weaves her way through a post-war world now emerging into a high stakes and often dangeous competition between former...
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Wounded hearts volume 01
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The War brought them together -- will it also tear them apart? While en route to aid Confederate soldiers injured in battle near her home, Southerner Caroline Dunbar stumbles across a wounded Union sergeant. Unable to ignore his plea for help, she tends his injuries and hides him away, only to find her attachment to him deepen with each passing day. But when her secret is discovered, Caroline incurs her father's wrath and, in turn, unlocks a dark...
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2008.
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English
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Eleanor Kerr, a lowly seamstress, works for her Aunt Daphne where she meets rich and handsome Raleigh Alden; Raleigh, who falls for Eleanor, realizes a future with Eleanor may be impossible since Raleigh believes that courting a lowly seamstress could demean his family's name. [LARGE PRINT READING]
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