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Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding saga of a remarkable american family . . .
The beautiful, frail Colette Duvoisin trusted governess Charmaine Ryan with her worries, her dreams, and the care of her beloved children. But now Colette is gone-leaving her three young ones devastated . . . and the house of Duvoisin in turmoil.
To her children's horror, their father, the enigmatic Frederic Duvoisin, weds his mistress and sister-in-law, Agatha, soon after their mother's...
2) Salem witch
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
From Harold Coyle, the New York Times bestselling author of Twice the Citizen, comes the fourth book in the Nathan Dixon series: They Are Soldiers
They are your neighbor and the person who delivers your mail. They teach your children and build your homes. Every day you see them but do not notice them, that is not until they are needed. Only when disasters strike, whether it be natural or man made do they become something quite different, something...
Author
Series
Reno western saga volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
[1992], c1987
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Antietam is the third in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family, the Brannons. Mac, a Brannon son and a gifted horseman, joins Jeb Stuart's cavalry and soon finds himself on one of the great adventures of the war.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
In "Love Day" a young Marine, about to invade Japan, remembers the role his father played in building one of the ships. "Shadrach" is about a child's recollection of what happened when a former slave came home to die in the place where he was born. In "A Tidewater Morning" a boy describes the hot summer day on which his mother died. The stories all take place in Virginia.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A "novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers--one white, one Black--living in a 'perfect' suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial reckoning"--
11) Tick tock
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The women of the Sisterhood have developed a motto: "Whatever it takes." Regardless of how dangerous an adversary may be, the group's devotion to each other and to their cause has helped them achieve the seemingly impossible. But in the course of their official careers and their top-secret missions, the Sisterhood have acquired enemies. On their trail is a vicious felon with scores to settle and a network of accomplices willing to do his bidding,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
"There had never been a place like the Comstock or a city like Virginia or such a gathering of brilliant men." So writes Henry Stoddardin an unforgettable novel-as-memoir of Virginia City, the most spectacular boomtown ever sen in the West.
Author
Series
Wind Dancer volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The president's daughter has fallen into the darkness of severe catatonic trauma after witnessing the murder of her nanny and the Secret Service agents on duty to protect her. Melissa Riley is attempting to help young Cassie, little knowing that there's a dangerous international game of intrigue under way.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A controversial miracle in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains sparks religious fervor, and a suspicious death.
Author
Series
Between two flags volume 6
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As thirteen-year-old Gideon seeks work in the Confederate capital, tensions at home are inflamed by President Lincoln's ultimatum to the rebelling states.
17) Celebration
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a 20-year marriage, an army colonel's wife is abandoned by her husband, who empties their bank account. In the next eight years Kristin Kelly finds another man, gets a divorce and her three children are adjusting, when the husband appears on the doorstep, asking to resume the marriage. By the author of Finders Keepers.
18) Dirty money
Author
Series
J.J. Graves Mystery volume 06
Publisher
7Th Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"King George County, Virginia has its share of crime, but it's generally a good place to live and raise a family. So when a string of unusual murders sweeps through the county, J.J. Graves and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, are left scratching their heads. But the victims have one thing in common--Malachi Graves--J.J.'s father. The world thinks he's dead, but J.J. knows that's just another one of his lies, and it's only a matter of time before...
Author
Series
Civil War battle series volume 10
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
With the conclusion of the ten-volume saga, the multiple strands of the story are woven toward their resolution. Members of the Brannon family are involved in battles across the country, from the Deep South to the Dakota Territory. In the spring of 1865 the war reaches its climax at a crossroads in Virginia known as Appomattox. Subsequently, the war in brought home to the Brannon farm when carpetbaggers move into the South and they must decide whether...
Author
Series
Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
While Elizabeth is in Virginia to help her brother and parents, she attempts to solve the puzzle of the missing Confederate treasury.