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"1944. When a violent storm rips through the Belvidere attic in No Creek, North Carolina, exposing a hidden room and trunk long forgotten, secrets dating back to the Civil War are revealed. Celia Percy, whose family lives and works in the home, suspects the truth could transform the future for her friend Marshall, now fighting overseas, whose ancestors were once enslaved by the Belvidere family. When Marshall's Army friend, Joe, returns to No Creek...
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"Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence farm. They do not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, but Joetta considers her family to be neutral, believing this is simply not their fight. Her opinion...
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Civil War Novel volume 1
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Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Told from the perspective of characters on both sides of the battle, including blockade-runner Matthew Sloane and Confederate spy Belle O'Neal, depicts life during the Civil War in the North Carolina city where Fort Fisher was located.
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Shenandoah sisters volume 1
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Two young Southern girls, one the daughter of a plantation owner and one the daughter of a slave, barely survive the onset of the Civil War and the loss of both their families. When these tragic circumstances bring them together, they join forces to discover if they can make a life for themselves. As their preconceptions give way to experience, they gradually learn to value their contrasting and complementing strengths and skills as they face the...
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American quilt volume 1-3
Publisher
Christian Family Book Club
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Ballad novels volume 7
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English
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In 1861 the Civil War reached the mountainous South--where the enemy was you neighbor, the victims were your friends, and the wrong army was whichever one you joined. When Malinda Blalock's husband, Keith, joined the army, she dressed as a boy and went with him. They spent the war close to home in the North Carlina mountains, acting as Union guerilla fighters, raiding the farms of Confederate sympathizers making as much trouble as they could locally....
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Ballad novels volume 7
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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A sweeping novel that juxtaposes the legends of the Civil War with the lives of the modern-day mountain folk.
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Miramax
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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In the waning days of the American Civil War, Inman, a wounded Conferate soldier leaves the hospital where he is recuperating and embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with Ada, the woman he left behind. Deserters like Inman are considered traitors and are ordered to be killed by the home-guards, ruthless vigilantes who also prey upon those who did not fight, torturing and killing families of Confederate...