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"Through scratchboard art and quotes from the subject's letters, this picture book biography follows the life of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who served in the Union army disguised as a man. Back matter materials include an author's note, two glossaries, recommended reading, a timeline of events, and additional historical information"--
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[2011]
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Colonel Marlowe is in command of a 1200 Union volunteers whose task is to infiltrate 300 miles of Southern territory and destroy the most strategic rail route in the Confederacy. Marlowe's life is complicated by a running feud with the company's surgeon, Major Kendall.
5) I am Kavi
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[2023]
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"1998, Colombo. The Sri Lankan Civil War is raging, but everyday life must go on. At Kavi's school, her friends talk about the weekly Top 40, the Backstreet Boys, Shahrukh Khan, Leo & Kate... and who died--or didn't--in the latest bombing. But Kavi is afraid of something even scarier than war. She fears that if her friends discover her secret--that she is not who she is pretending to be--they'll stop talking to her. Kavi's scholarship to her elite...
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1862 was the second year of the Civil War and a year when hundreds of European immigrants and settlers from the eastern United States were building cabins and clearing farmland in Minnesota.
It was also the year when the Dakota Sioux were starving on their reservation because the annuity from the federal government was late, and the traders refused to sell them food on credit. In August the smoldering firestorm erupted, and the Dakota Sioux went...
7) Angel
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In Angel, the life of a slave owner and his family, as well as their slaves, is explored through the story of a genius slave named Angel. Appointed as overseer of the plantation in her teenage years, Angel's ideas bring great success to the slave owner and turn him into a multimillionaire. However, when the Civil War sweeps through the plantation, the owner and his family are killed. After the war, Angel uses the owner's gold to support 116 former...
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Tranquilla Taylor should have been a pampered Southern belle, and indeed was courted by two suitors who were best friends. But this hard-riding, straight-shooting rebel scandalized Mississippi planter society by learning Latin, mathematics, the classics. She freed her inherited slaves, worked the fields alongside two husbands, both tragically murdered, and held her family together despite war, poverty, and too much death.She lost two infant sons,...
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It is the Civil War and Colonel Michael Baker rules Fort Harmer. The old Fort, on the Delaware River a few miles south of Philadelphia, has been converted into a prison to hold captured Confederate soldiers. Baker is the commandant of Fort Harmer; he and his assistant, Major Jonathan Kelly, have turned the prison into their personal kingdom. Their tentacles reach far beyond Fort Harmer through a vast network of bribes, intimidation, murder, and corruption....
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Now comes a story of one of American history's most controversial and tragic events, the Civil War. "For Twenty Dollars in Gold" is such a story told from the view of a man and his family, all conflicted by circumstances created by others for causes they did not share, that spun out of control, all for a war they did not seek. Follow Private James Ward on this epic journey through American history, on battlefields near and far away, with intense victories...
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Tranquilla Taylor McRaven, widowed twice, educated and freed her inherited slaves, amid censure and condemnation in 1800s Mississippi. She bore eleven children, held her family together through loss, conflict, tragedy, with head held high. She talked often with God, argued with Him, but never left Him. Her first husband was axe-murdered in bed beside her by a tormented slave, her second killed in aiding runaways. She lost two infant sons, then her...
12) Hindsight Bravo
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On an adrenaline-pumping journey, Master Sergeant Mike Mann and his elite team of soldiers paradrop into unknown territory over the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Something feels different about this mission, and as they secure a defensible campsite, they unleash the power of the extraordinary X-ray Laser Image Transporter (XLIMTR). This groundbreaking device can scan, deconstruct, and reconstruct objects with unparalleled precision. Their mission:...
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When Anatoly Lukyanov arrives in the U.S. during the California Gold Rush, he is just a wide-eyed, idealistic Russian/Buriat kid, in love with the idea, and ideals, of America. Soon, he finds work he loves as a cowboy, along with a new American name: Nate Luck. Over the next forty years, Nate experiences both the best and the worst that America has to offer-as a cowboy, a soldier, an adopted member of the Nez Perce tribe, a deputy sheriff, and a prisoner...
14) Blood to Rubies
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"Rhapsodic and sensuous." "Savage and tender." Blood to Rubies is the scorching saga of injustice, love, and redemption in the western wilderness. A young frontier photographer goes West to escape the Civil War draft and settles in the Bitterroot Mountains, ancestral home of the Nez Perce Indians. There he becomes obsessed with a young Irish pioneer woman he spies swimming nude in a mountain lake. He comes to admire the Nez Perce and photographs the...
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Gabe Hawkins and his crew of cowboys are preparing to cross the South Platte River in Nebraska. Ogallala, the town that claims to be too tough for Texas, is in front of them.
As trail boss, no women on drives were always Gabe's most important rule. However, he broke that rule twice this trip. The first was when Laurel Evans married one of Gabe's best hands and signed on as cook's helper. The second took place when Merina Montero and her four-year-old...
16) Lincoln's Angel
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A Novel of Triumph over Tragedy
Inspired by Rebecca Pomroy's journal, letters & recollections
Based on real lives, real places, and actual events
Rebecca Pomroy overcomes thirty years of debilitating grief to become an army nurse during the American Civil War, bringing hope and healing to countless soldiers. But when she encounters the weight of anguish borne by President and Mrs. Lincoln in the aftermath of their son's death, she faces...
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John Scobell risked everything to escape slavery at the outset of the Civil War and thought he'd made his way to freedom – until the moment he was recruited and sent back to the Confederacy as an undercover Union spy.Can he avoid capture and certain death at the hands of brutal Rebel spy hunters? Will he find the one item that can break the Confederate codes and earn Scobell his emancipation? Or will he remain forever in freedom's shadow? In Freedom's...
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For readers of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier and Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles, an evocative, morally complex novel set in rural 19th century North Carolina, as one woman fights to keep her family united, her farm running, and her convictions whole during the most devastating and divisive period in American history.
Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband,...
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One hundred and fifty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the words of the soldiers and onlookers present for those three fateful days still reverberate with the power of their courage and sacrifice. The Illustrated Gettysburg Reader: An Eyewitness History of the Civil War's Greatest Battle gathers letters, journals, articles and speeches from the people who lived through those legendary three days. Tied together with narrative by historian Rod...
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* Over 100 large Battlefield Maps
* Loaded with Photos, Illustrations and Discussion
* Integrated with online Google Maps
* Integrated with YouTube Battlefield Animations
Little Round Top, The Wheatfield, The Peach Orchard, Devil's Den, the Railroad Cut, Pickett's Charge-these were the turning points within the most important battle of the bloodiest war in American history. But even careful students of Gettysburg can find themselves confused when...
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