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Scarlett

Alexandra Ripley · 832 pages

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Miss Katie's Rosewood

Michael R. Phillips · 343 pages

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An Extraordinary Union

Alyssa Cole · 258 pages

"As the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger, combining their unique skills to alter the course of history and break the chains of the past... Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in Massachusetts, she returns to the indignity of sla

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The Fiery Cross

Diana Gabaldon · 985 pages

New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon mesmerized readers with her award-winning Outlander novels, four dazzling tales featuring eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall. Now, in this eagerly awaited fifth volume, Diana Gabaldon continues their extraordinary saga, a masterpiece of pure storytelling that is her most astonishing

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Storm Clouds Rolling In

Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye · 530 pages

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The Right-Hand Shore

Christopher Tilghman · 368 pages

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Some Sing, Some Cry

Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza · 568 pages

The story of emancipated slave Elizabeth Mayfield traces her rise as the matriarch of a family of musically gifted Southern women who overcome brutal obstacles while witnessing key moments in American history.

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Somerset

Leila Meacham · 625 pages

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The Whistle Walk

Stephenia H. McGee · 374 pages

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The Glory Field

Walter Dean Myers · 420 pages

Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.

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Candle in the Darkness

Lynn Austin · 456 pages

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Queen

Alex Haley, David Stevens · 735 pages

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The Fiery Cross part two

Diana Gabaldon, Davina Porter

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Cane River

Lalita Tademy · 418 pages

The "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick--the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of African-American women based on one family's ancestral past.

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The Witching Hour

Anne Rice · 1,002 pages

The first in the Mayfair Witches series, The Witching Hour introduces the fictional Mayfair family of New Orleans, generations of male and female witches. This tight-knit and deeply connected family, where a death of one strengthens the others with his/her knowledge. One Mayfair witch per generation is also designated to receive the powers of "the man," known as Lasher. Lasher gives the witches gi

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Annie, Between the States

L.M. Elliott · 544 pages

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The Seven Daughters of Dupree

Nikesha Elise Williams · 336 pages

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Jubilee

Margaret Walker · 432 pages

The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

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The Foxes of Harrow

Frank Yerby · 534 pages

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To Whisper Her Name

Tamera Alexander · 480 pages

Olivia Aberdeen, destitute widow of a man shot as a traitor to the South, gratefully accepts an invitation from Elizabeth Harding, mistress of Belle Meade Plantation. Expecting to be the head housekeeper, Olivia is disillusioned when she learns the real reason Elizabeth's husband, Confederate General William Giles Harding, agreed to her coming. Not finding the safe haven she expects, Olivia is cau

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Beulah Land

Lonnie Coleman · 515 pages

**BEULAH LAND...** the tremendously engrossing saga of a great Georgia plantation in its golden age, and of the men and women, white and black, who were born and died there, knew every pain and pleasure, virtue and vice. BEULAH LAND... where the old South as it really was is brought to intense life, in all its outward splendor and secret shame.

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The Last Silk Dress

Ann Rinaldi · 350 pages

During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets.

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Gone with the Wind, Part 2 of 2

John Escott, Margaret Mitchell · 1,024 pages

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