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41) Navy grooms
Author
Language
English
Description
Erin MacNamera has one rule: never fall for a navy man. But from the pulse-stopping moment her eyes meet Lieutenant Brandon Davis's across a crowded lounge, Erin knows life will never be the same. Sexy, tender and strong, Brandon is all she'd ever dreamed of in a man, but he's also navy--and as a navy brat from way back, she knows better than to give her heart to a seafaring man.
Busy attorney Catherine Fredrickson loves her job at a submarine base,...
42) The Simple Truth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty-five years after being convicted of the murder of a little girl, a black soldier discovers he was set up: someone drugged him to kill. When Rufus Harms appeals, the real killers come after him, so he breaks out of jail to help a lawyer bring them to justice. The book contains mature language situations.
43) John Tyler
Author
Series
Publisher
Times Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"When William Henry Harrison died in April 1841, just one month after his inauguration, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. It was a controversial move by this Southern gentleman, who had been placed on the fractious Whig ticket with the hero of Tippecanoe in order to sweep Andrew Jackson's Democrats, and their imperial tendencies, out of the White House." "Soon Tyler was beset by the Whigs' competing factions. He vetoed the charter...
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1862, eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
Author
Series
America a cultural history volume 1
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
This book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created...
46) Mosby's Rangers
Author
Language
English
Description
No single battalion was more feared during the Civil War than the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry. Better known as Mosby's Rangers, they were an elite guerrilla unit that operated with stunning success in northern Virginia and Maryland from 1863 to the last days of the war.
Author
Publisher
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
1955 [c1954]
Language
English
Description
"Notes on the State of Virginia" is the only full-length book by Thomas Jefferson published during his lifetime. Jefferson first published the book anonymously in a private and limited-edition printing in Paris in 1785 while he was serving as a trade representative for the new American government. "Notes on the State of Virginia" was later made available to the general public in a 1787 printing in London by John Stockdale. Jefferson's detailed description...
Author
Series
Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captured by the Confederate Army in 1863 during the American Civil War, Union soldiers Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A.G. Hamilton are sent to infamous Libby Prison, where they resolve to escape tortuous conditions.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation outside of Richmond, Virginia and their descendants.
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered one of our country's greatest military figures. His briiliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the Union high command in knots and threatened the ultimate success of the Union armies.
55) Follow the river
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
After being captured in an Indian raid during 1755, Mary Draper Ingles follows the Ohio River for 1,000 miles to return home to Virginia by herself.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Felicity, a young girl in colonial Williamsburg, decides to find out who is trying to cause trouble when an anonymous person begins falsely accusing people of helping the British--including her father.
Author
Series
Virginia mysteries volume 3
Publisher
MyBoys3 Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Legend says that the haunting lights over the rapids on the James River at night are the ghosts of lon55g-dead soldiers still fighting the Civil War. Just past the water lies historic Belle Isle, the former Union soldier prisoner-of-war camp, now a city park filled with crumbling ruins and dark wooded trails. When brothers Sam and Derek explore the island and local monuments to Richmond's past on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with their...
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...
60) Patrick Henry
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English