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Carolina Gold

Dorothy Love · 336 pages

The war is over, but at Fairhaven Plantation, Charlotte's struggle has just begun. Charlotte Fraser returns to her late father's once-flourishing rice plantation on the Waccamaw River, determined to continue his tradition of growing the special kind of rice known as Carolina Gold. But Fairhaven Plantation is in ruins, the bondsmen are free, and money is scarce. To make ends meet, Charlotte relucta

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All Things New

Lynn Austin · 416 pages

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Elsie's Troubled Times

Martha Finley · 182 pages

As Elsie and Edward experience the joys of parenthood, the Civil War begins and ends, with terrible losses to their families.

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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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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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A Perilous Proposal

Michael R. Phillips · 347 pages

Two years have passed since the conclusion of the Shenandoah Sisters series, and Katie and Mayme are young women with big dreams, running Rosewood with the help of their two uncles and their friends Emma, Josepha, Jeremiah, and Henry. Jeremiah proposes to Mayme, but she is hesitant to accept. She loves him but does not want to give up her life at Rosewood. Local whites are furious at the Daniels b

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The Beloved Invader

Eugenia Price · 284 pages

[St. Simons Trilogy - Book #3 - each book individual in itself - #3 a touching story. ed.] ***Lover, determination, and courage abound on a picturesque Georgia island as Eugenia Price's magnificent St. Simon's Trilogy concludes...*** The Beloved Invader is Anson Dodge, a wealthy young Northerner, who, when he came south to St. Simons Island, found God and lost his heart to the beautiful lan

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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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The Good Dream

Donna VanLiere · 308 pages

Denounced by her 1950 Tennessee community as an old maid, 30-something Ivorie Walker hides her loneliness and grief over her mother's death behind good-humored independence before advocating on behalf of a feral boy who has been stealing vegetables from her garden.

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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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Charity's Cross

MaryLu Tyndall · 329 pages

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Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier · 449 pages

Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature. Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great great-great grandfather, Cold Mountain is

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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 (Dear America Series)

Barry Denenberg · 158 pages

A Confederate girl records the hardships of Southern life as the Civil War rages at her doorstep and tears her family and her country apart.

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Conor's Way

Laura Lee Guhrke · 416 pages

Olivia Maitland needs a man. Determined to hang onto her family’s Louisiana farm no matter what, Olivia knows she needs a big, strong man to help her, a man who’s not afraid of hard work. But in the aftermath of the Civil War, men like that are hard to come by, and when she finds ex-boxer Conor Branigan lying unconscious in the road, Olivia takes him in, even though the hard, brawling Irishman isn

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The Handsome Road

Gwen Bristow · 326 pages

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Undeniably Yours

Becky Wade · 461 pages

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Gone with the Wind, Part 2 of 2

John Escott, Margaret Mitchell · 1,024 pages

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North and South

John Jakes · 816 pages

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Maid to Match

Deeanne Gist

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The Whistle Walk

Stephenia H. McGee · 374 pages

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A Passion Redeemed

Julie Lessman

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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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