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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In 1997, Charles Frazier's debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history when it sailed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now, the beloved American epic returns, reissued by Grove Press to coincide with the publication of Frazier's eagerly-anticipated second novel, Thirteen Moons. Sorely wounded and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In The Yankee Widow, gifted storyteller Linda Lael Miller explores the complexities and heartbreak that families experienced as men took up arms to preserve the nation and defend their way of life. Told in a smart, assured and compelling voice, this is the story of Caroline, the young wife and childhood sweetheart of Jacob, who together live on a farm raising their daughter, Rachel, just outside of Gettysburg. When Jacob joins the Northern army to...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison.
5) Bull Run
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
"A Laura Geringer Book"
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
104 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having earned his writing chops as an award-winning author of short fiction, Lance Weller delivers an unforgettable novel set in post-Civil War America. Abel Truman, maimed at the Battle of the Wilderness and beset with old age, lives on the rugged coast of Washington State. Resolving to attend to personal matters set in motion long ago, Truman and his be-loved dog embark on a harrowing journey over the treacherous Olympic Mountains - and along the...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
704 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The American Civil War tore at the very roots of our nation and destroyed most of a generation. To truly understand the madness and despair of such a horrendous conflict one needs to pick a moment. Or see that war through one family’s eyes. In rural Arkansas, such was the Hancocks. Devastated by a cruel war, they faced down their personal hells and in spite of it all survived. Their survival is a testament to the power of love…and the American...
10) Andersonville
Author
Publisher
World Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1955
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
767 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
11) Marmee: a novel
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1861, Margaret March, with her husband serving as an army chaplain, finds the comfort and security of her four daughters resting on her shoulders alone as she faces financial hardships, secrets, and tragedy, in this revealing retelling of Little Women from the perspective of the beloved matriarch known as Marmee.
12) Battle flag
Author
Series
The Starbuck chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
626 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
16) Top soldier
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
161 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told in "scrapbook" format, this is the story of Miss Bet emancipates her favorite slave Lisa and sends her north to be educated, but an opportunity comes to get Lisa a job in Jefferson Davis' home where she can act as a spy.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
69 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life as slaves in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.
19) March
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
280p. 25cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
77 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After their escape from North Carolina to Philadelphia in the summer of 1864, Addy and her mother begin their new life as free people as her mother gets a paying job and Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship.
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