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1) Ghost Legion
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"In this tale set during the War for Independence, two intriguing stories emerge. One is of a black freedman, Stuart Brodie. On his return from the war, he finds his brother lynched and his tavern in the backcountry of South Carolina burnt to the ground. Knowing that the guilty party was allied with the Colonial Patriots, he joins the British Army to exact his revenge. The other story is of an abused wife, Marty, who is raped by her husband and his...
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A diary written by Conner Munro's son, Smith, tells the story of how the state relay station, Soldier's Farewell, got its name and what happened during the years it operated in the shadow of the growing conflict between the states -- a time when Julian, Smith's older brother, an officer in the U.S. Army stationed in New Mexico in 1860, told his father Conner and his brother Smith that he has been reassigned to work as a spy in the coming conflict....
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It's the spring of 1864, and times are hard in Washington County, Arkansas, especially for thirteen-year-old Travis Ford. He hasn't heard from his father, a sergeant in the 2nd Arkansas Cavalry, in months. His mother is struggling to make ends meet on the family farm near Poison Spring. All Travis really wants to do is to follow his passion--to make up adventure stories in the style of Alexandre Dumas. But the Civil War keeps getting in his way. When...
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