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Elsie's Troubled Times

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A Beauty So Rare

Tamera Alexander · 480 pages

"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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A Thousand Shall Fall

Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene · 512 pages

The war to end all wars is over, and the soldiers have come home. Birch Tucker, with his wife Trudy, and his sons, makes his way back to Shiloh, Arkansas, his boyhood home, to carve out a new life for his family. Mrs. Meyer, now a financial columnist for the "New York Times," moves among the wealthy and influential stock barons of the world. Life in America in the Twenties holds out the tantaliz

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A Most Inconvenient Marriage

Regina Jennings · 324 pages

"Having fled a difficult home life, Civil War nurse Abigail Stuart feels like her only friend in the world is sweet but gravely wounded patient Jeremiah Calhoun. Fearing he won't survive, the Confederate soldier's last wish is that Abigail look after his sickly sister at home. Marry him, return to his horse farm, and it'll be hers. Left with few choices, Abigail takes him up on his offer and moves

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Charity's Cross

MaryLu Tyndall · 329 pages

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Beyond All Measure

Dorothy Love · 320 pages

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Together Is All We Need

Michael R. Phillips · 317 pages

And that's how it was that we were alone again, without any grown-ups or men at Rosewood, when Katie's father's brother came to call. For nearly two years, Mayme -- a former slave -- and Katie have kept Katie's family plantation in operation, disguising the fact that they are orphans of war and "sisters of the heart." Together they have sheltered others in need and battled threats of foreclosure,

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All Things New

Lynn Austin · 416 pages

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Daughter of Twin Oaks

Lauraine Snelling · 314 pages

Seeking to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood determines to take her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from Twin Oaks plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri, where they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War. Jesselynn is also fleeing a cruel man in Confederate uniform who has pledged to take

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The Dwelling Place

Elizabeth Musser · 411 pages

"Sprinkled with humor, heartache and history, this stand-alone sequel to The Swan House is a journey of sacrifice, forgiveness and hope that finds a daughter and mother linked by love, but separated by secrets"--Provided by publisher.

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Troublesome Creek

Jan Watson · 369 pages

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On To Richmond

Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye · 604 pages

"Burdened with the responsibility of running an entire plantation, Carrie Cromwell fights to understand the forces tearing her beloved country apart. As battles rage around her, she watches her life as her life slowly unravels and she discovers truths she would never have imagined. Will her actions and decisions push her even farther from those she loves? When the danger she dreads becomes reality

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The Scent of Lilacs

Ann H. Gabhart

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That Certain Spark

Cathy Marie Hake

Gooding, Texas, is about to gain a double blessing--a veterinarian and a doctor. But when siblings Enoch and Taylor Bestman arrive, the discovery that Taylor is a lady doctor has the town up in arms. Especially Karl Van der Vort, the town blacksmith, who becomes the first patient...against his will.Though hesitant to believe in Taylor's doctoring skills, Karl finds himself oddly protective of this

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Into the Free

Julie Cantrell · 370 pages

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The Whistle Walk

Stephenia H. McGee · 374 pages

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Westward the Dream

Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson · 318 pages

Brenton and Jordana Baldwin make a trip across the continent to California, leaving a home ravaged by the Civil War. Planning to visit the gold fields and photograph the wilds of western America, the travelers become tied to the establishment of the Union Pacific Railroad. Romance blossoms along the way, but dangers threaten to turn the dream into a tragedy.

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Mandie and the Mysterious Bells

Lois Gladys Leppard · 160 pages

Mandie and her friends have a new mystery to investigate when the bells of the church suddenly begin ringing at midnight.

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The Pattern of Her Heart

Tracie Peterson, Judith McCoy Miller · 381 pages

"When tragedy strikes, Jasmine Houston must uproot her family from the Northern mill town of Lowell and take over her family's Southern plantation. Tensions are high, and the lives of the slaves they've promised to protect hang in the balance"--Provided by publisher.

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Esther: Royal Beauty

Angela Elwell Hunt · 352 pages

"Based on the biblical account of Esther, this story imagines the life and passion of this beautiful woman whose courage and influence impacted history and the fate of her people"--

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Chasing The Sun

Tracie Peterson

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Love by the Letter

Melissa Jagears

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Unending Devotion

Jody Hedlund

In 1883 Michigan, Lily Young is on a mission to save her lost sister, or die trying. Heedless of the danger, her searches of logging camps lead her to Harrison and into the sights of Connell McCormick, a man doing his best to add to the hard-earned fortunes of his lumber baron father. Posing during the day as a photographer's assistant, Lily can't understand why any God-fearing citizen would al

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A Heart Revealed

Julie Lessman · 512 pages

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