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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 71
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English
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is a classic novel that has captured the hearts of readers for generations. Set in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, the story follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, a headstrong and determined young woman who is forced to navigate the challenges of war, love, and loss. Throughout the novel, Scarlett's character undergoes significant growth and transformation as she learns to adapt...
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"From American master James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters-enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers-are caught in the maelstrom. 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 in disarray, corrupt...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory...
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Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
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The extraordinary lives, passions, and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--come to a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefields of the Civil War. A worthy companion to The Killer Angels . . . Shaara brilliantly charts the war, the exploits of the combatants and their motivations. He also concisely shows how the early parts of the campaign unfolded....
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From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction comes the epic story of two families -- the Hazards and the Mains. Separated by vastly different ways of life, joined by the unbreakable bonds of true friendship, and torn asunder by a country at the threshold of a bloody conflict that would change their lives forever....
7) Enemy Women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Set in the Missouri Ozarks during the Civil War, Jiles's story focuses on the trying times of 18-year-old heroine Adair Colley. When a group of renegade Union militiamen attacks the Colley home, stealing family possessions, burning everything down, and taking away her father--an apolitical judge--Adair gathers the remnants of her clothes and mounts a rescue effort. Unfortunately, she is falsely accused of being a Confederate spy, a charge that lands...
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Civil War trilogy (Jeff Shaara) volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the confrontations between Robert E. Lee, Lawrence Chamberlain, and Ulysses S. Grant during the last two years of the Civil War.
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Publisher
PrestonSpeed Publications
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
After four years in England, fifteen-year-old Vincent Wingfield, who supports slavery but not brutality toward slaves, returns to Virginia and serves courageously under Lee and Jackson through many of the famous battles of the Civil War.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
A novel of the Civil War in which a young Southerner impregnates a black slave. The family quickly sells her, a white cotton trader marries and passes her off as white. But the girl was already married and her black husband runs away to join the Northern army in a bid to reclaim her..
13) Fire by night
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Series
Refiner's fire volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
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Julia, a wealthy Philadelphia socialite is forced to overcome great obstacles and look for deeper meaning in her life when her intended describes her as shallow. Despite social restrictions on single women, she pursues a vocation as a battlefield nurse. Julia finds a kindred spirit in Phoebe, a West Virginia farm girl, who dresses in men's clothing in order to be a soldier.
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Publisher
Zondervan Pub. House
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Quentin Larribee, a New York doctor who accidentally killed a surrendering Confederate officer during the Civil War, journeys South, plagued by guilt, to comfort the man's widow, finding love, danger, and a test of his faith.
15) Gideon's call
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Publisher
Worthy Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Northern soldiers set ten thousand slaves free on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina, the newly freed slaves have little hope for the future, until slave boy Tad, looking to better himself, rises up to lead them.
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
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Ninety-nine year old Lucille Marsden, confined to a charity nursing home in North Carolina, is an American cousin of Joyce's Anna Livia Plurabelle. Lucy tells the story of her marriage to "Captain" Will Marsden, ostensibly the Civil War's last survivor, whom she married when she was 15 and he was more than triple her age. She also tells about her husband's experiences in the war and after, the burning of her mother-in-law's plantation by Sherman's...
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American quilt volume 1-3
Publisher
Christian Family Book Club
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
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Belmont mansion novels volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Eleanor's practical plans for the new home for Civil War widows and orphans at Belmont Mansion, in Nashville, conflict with architect Marcus' artistic vision. Will they ever manage to find common ground?
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Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
"Raised by the Shawnee, Jamie Ian MacCallister fought his way to manhood on an odyssey that took him from the Alamo to Colorado to the goldfields of California. He forged his future in a dawning era of greatness and greed that would make him a legend in his own time. Suddenly, the United States is divided against itself--North against South, brother against brother, father against son. With his own sons fighting on opposing sides, MacCallister leads...