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1) The sword
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James Ewell Brown Stuart is a brawny soldier with a big heart for young Flora Cooke. Their love was meant to be ... until the Civil War forces Jeb to leave his young family for the battlefield. "Reckless" describes the life of well-to-do Clay Tremayne - a world of gambling and chasing women. When he nearly becomes a casualty of his own wild ways, Clay joins the southern forces under General Stuart hoping to redeem himself.
2) The crossing
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The Crossing opens a new trilogy about the years leading up to the Civil War. Widower Daniel Tremayne returns to his Amish roots, while his son, Yancy, joins a Virginia militia and becomes one of "Stonewall's Boys" in the War Between the States. Rich with characters struggling to make sense of the war and Amish pacifism while maintaining loyalty to family, the first in The Last Cavaliers series combines adventure and romance in a thick historical...
3) The shadow of his wings: 1861-1863 adventure and romance thrive during the War Between the States
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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Large print edition.
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423 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Lowell Rocklin accepts a challenge to help the South build a balloon for use in military strategy. His efforts are aided by Rooney Smith, a young woman whose ingenuity proves invaluable. Suddenly, double tragedy strikes: Seriously injured in battle, Lowell must also suffer with his discovery of the tragic truth about Rooney -- the woman he has come to love.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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Large print edition.
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525 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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When Paul Bristol returns from Europe he knows his involvement in the war is inevitable. The artist and photographer is asked to go to the front and capture images of Confederate bravery. But he needs a trained assistant. Time constraints force him to accept an independent young woman named Frankie Aimes and head for the dangers of the battlefield. But there is another danger that Bristol knows nothing about: Frankie is hiding a deadly secret.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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Large print edition.
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495 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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A young Quaker woman travels to Washington from Pennsylvania to help nurse the wounded soldiers and falls in love with an army engineer who has lost his memory. But when amnesia patient Burke Rocklin falls in love with a Union nurse, neither is aware that he is a Confederate soldier.
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Appomattox saga volume 9
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
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447 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large Print edition.
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531 pages (large print) : genealogical tables ; 23 cm
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English
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The war has come, opening a chasm between North and South, turning friends and brothers into enemies. As the nation begins to understand the true meaning of civil war, so the Rocklins begin to understand the fierce and terrible pull of loyalty. Deborah Steele is torn between her passionate belief in the Union and her deep love for Confederate officer Dent Rocklin. And when Deborah sets out on a daring mission to rescue a captured Union soldier, she...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large Print edition.
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563 pages (large print) : genealogical table ; 23 cm.
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English
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Vince Franklin, the renegade stepson of Amy Rocklin Franklin, has returned home. His intentions? To fulfill the requirements of his grandfather's will and claim his family inheritance, with no regard for the lives he may ruin in the process. But before Vince can claim his money, a jealous husband sends him running for his life. Unable to return home, he meets Jake Hardin, a riverboat gambler. Together they devise a daring and dangerous plot. But when...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
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477 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Frank Rocklin avoids formal conscription into the Federal army only to serve the North as a spy in a theater troupe touring behind enemy lines. Family loyalties are torn as they accuse him of being a Southern sympathizer. But will his love for a Southern actress or his duty to his country prevail?
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
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525 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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While the armies of the North and South march to wage the Battle of Gettysburg, Mark Rocklin lies dying. His wish to be reunited with his estranged daughter comes true when a young blockade runner tracks her down. But the plot thickens when Allyn learns she must be married to inherit her father's estate.
12) The surrender
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2012
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English
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When Morgan Tremayne follows Robert E. Lee into battle, he leaves behind his beloved Virginia home--and a love he's been too blind to see.
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Winslow Breed volume 2
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Howard Books
Pub. Date
2010
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288 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Appomattox saga volume 10
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
491 pages (large print) : genealogical tables ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's such a peaceful February in the Rockies, no one realizes that hundreds are still dying as the Civil War rages on. Nothing could convince Charlene Peace, half Crow Indian, to leave her mountain home -- until handsome Boone Manwaring delivered his earth-shattering news. Charlene and Boone travel South toward Richmond, site of the heaviest fighting, and begin to understand the politics of war. As danger grows for Northerners in the South, they must...
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