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Presents an historical fiction based upon the true story of Carrie McGavock, who spent the years following the Civil War caring for the graves of over fifteen hundred soldiers from the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, who were buried on designated ground in her back yard.
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Brides of Montclair volume 3
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Avril Dumont, an orphan and wealthy heiress, is taken in as a young girl by a her father's friend, Graham Montrose, and following a lonely adolescence, returns to Montclair as a young woman and to find her fate.
3) Property
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"Valerie Martin's Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery's venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband. In particular his relationship with her slave Sarah, who is both his victim and his mistress. Exploring the permutations of Manon's own...
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Brides of Montclair volume 2
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"I won't lose you now! " said Cam in a voice ragged with emotion. The moon moved across the sky from behind the sheltering trees, and suddenly the two of them were enveloped in moonlight. "I love you, and yet I know I have no right to speak to you of this. I'm not free. I'm engaged--" "Oh, Cam, don't! " she begged. "It cannot be. It is too late. There is no way--" A tremor coursed through her -- a premonition of danger. This was madness, she knew....
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Noramary came out of the parlor into the hall. Stunned by what she had just heard, she felt slightly light-headed and leaned against the closed door for a moment to steady herself. The shock of Winnie's elopement during the night had been followed by a second -- the staggering request of her foster parents that she step into her errant cousin's place as the bride of Duncan Montrose! "So you see, my dear, why we must ask this of you?" Aunt Betsy's...
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Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 1
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Drew O'Connor, still broken-hearted over the loss of his betrothed three years earlier, wins a bride in a game of chance whom he plans to keep as a servant and caretaker of his young niece, but instead finds himself saddled with a woman who is argumentative, cannot cook, claims to be the daughter of an earl--and is totally captivating.
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Brides of Montclair volume 6
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In 1870, Blythe Dorman, falls hopelessly in love with a mysterious stranger-Malcolm Montrose, a man scarred with tragedy and defeat. A Virginian who has come to the California gold fields in hopes of recouping his family fortune.
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Brides of Montclair volume 4
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Happiness does not come painlessly to Sara Leighton. Her unusual beauty and her independent spirit places her on a collision course with romance, frustration, disappointment, and finally, true love. --- {Excerpt from back cover.}
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Brides of Montclair volume 15
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The final book of the fictional Brides of Montclair Series, in which contemporary artist Joy Montrose, heir to the Southern patrician Montrose family, discovers healing, the secret of her past, and hope for the future.
10) Destiny's bride
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Even while Randall was speaking, it was Pietro I saw, the tenderness in his dark eyes looking at me, the caress in his soft voice. In Randall's voice there was not a shred of emotion; nor was there any in his expression. How should I respond? What should I say? I knew this was the hardest decision I would ever have to make. Either choice would demand a different price. Was I prepared to pay it? Was love enough in the one to bridge all the other differences...
11) Jubilee bride
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It was the summer of unexdpected encounters and romantic surprises -- but it was not to be the summer of Faith Devlin's dreams... --- {Excerpt from back cover.}
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Brides of Montclair volume 5
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For some reason at just that moment, Garnet glanced up at the house and thought she saw a shadowy figure standing at the window of the downstairs master bedroom in the wing Malcolm shared with Rose. With a little clutching sensations, Garnet wondered if Rose had seen her talking with Malcolm and if she minded that Garnet's had been the last farewell. Garnet shrugged and walked back into the garden. What difference did it make one way or the other?...
13) Hero's bride
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When Kitty Cameron, in love with the dashing Kip Montrose, is forced to accept the dangerous career he has chosen for himself, she faces a difficult challenge. In order to follow her heart, she makes a decision that will irrevocably change her own life forever.
14) Shadow bride
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After her husband's death, Blythe Dorman and her son move to England to start a new life.
15) Mirror bride
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Although identical in appearance, the Cameron twins were dramatically different in temperament, but these differences had never kept them from being each other's best friend, confidant, and close companion. That is, until one fateful summer when Kitty starts to suspect that her twin is keeping something from her. Kitty longs to find out what it is, but something hidden in her own heart prevents her from doing so, because--Kitty has her own secret...
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When Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., saw a modest auction catalogue listing for an "Unpublished Original Manuscript," he knew he could be on the verge of a major literary find. After exhaustive research, he found that the handwritten manuscript he had purchased was the only known novel by a female African American slave and possibly the first novel written by a black woman anywhere. The Bondwoman's Narrative tells of a self-educated young house...
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