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Ribbons of steel volume 1
Language
English
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The first book in a sweeping historical series from two bestselling authors; young Carolina Adams is fascinated with the expanding railroad in the 1830's.
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The Sacketts volume 1
Language
English
Description
Barnabas Sackett flees Elizabethan London, and comes face-to-face with peril in the American wilderness.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"1827. Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live and love as he pleases. That same year, Cecelia, a young slave in Virginia, runs away for the first time. Soon infamous for her escape attempts, Cecelia drifts through the reality of slavery until she encounters frontiersman Sam Fisk, who rescues her from a slave auction in New Orleans. She travels with...
4) The bastard
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Series
Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 1
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Philip Kent. The illegitimate son of a British nobleman who was denied his heritage, he embraces the ideals of the fledgling nation of America-and takes up arms against his father's homeland.
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Discover how rough-hewed shelters become a home in which faith, hope, and love can flourish. Marvel in the blessings of Christmas celebrations without the trappings of modern commercialism where the true meaning of the day shines through. And treasure this exclusive collection of nine Christmas romances penned by some of Christian fiction's best-selling authors.
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English
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Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws off the government land recently set aside for an Indian reservation, Kedrick begins to notice that things are not as they seem. As his suspicions...
8) Red Trail
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An outbreak of hostilities with Comanches has disrupted the usual trail routes. But Mase Durst must get his cows from his Texas ranch to the railway up in Wichita, Kansas, or face losing his land, which the bank is fixing to foreclose on. He's forced to take his herd on a little-used route called the Red Trail--little used for good reasons. It's a tough trek: dangerous, narrow, and fraught with banditry. Along the way, Durst and his men face numerous...
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English
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"Missouri, 1860. Rumors of war between the North and South are spreading across the land. In rural Green County, many of the farmers are already choosing sides. But not John Zachary. His loyalties lie with his family first--and his heart is telling him to go west. Hoping to build a new life in the fertile valleys of Oregon, he convinces his best friend, Emmitt Braxton, to pack up their families and join him on a wagon train across the Oregon Trail....
Author
Series
Ribbons of steel volume 3
Language
English
Description
When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Carolina's stepdaughter, Victoria, becomes enthralled with handsome Kiernan, an Irish railroad worker. But will the upper-class Baldwins even consider him as a suitor for their daughter? And when tensions rise among the workers, can James stop a destructive plan before it's...
12) A hope beyond
Author
Series
Ribbons of steel volume 2
Language
English
Description
With the loss of her first true love, Carolina Adams finds life at the family plantation nearly unbearable. Desperate to escape, she moves to Baltimore to become a nanny to Victoria, a little girl whose mother has died. After breaking his wedding engagement with Virginia Adams, Carolina's older sister, James Baldwin immerses himself in work for the B&O Railroad, the other passion in his life besides Carolina. But when a shocking business proposal...
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Fort Henry saga volume 4
Pub. Date
2001, c1994
Language
English
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A fictionalized account of the life of George Washington from his birth to his early surveying trips into the Ohio River Valley.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Bad River is a tale of two brothers; one who builds a grass empire of cattle and horses on the vast Dakota prairie; the other who follows a trail of violence and bloodshed. A gripping western novel told in a way that will keep you in your saddle from beginning to end."...p.4 of cover.
17) Finding the Way
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Fictional account of the emigration of Karl Mueller, the author's grandfather, from Prussia to the United States during the 1870s, including his stops along the way to his final homestead destination.
18) West: A Novel
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When widowed mule breeder Cy Bellman reads in the newspaper that colossal ancient bones have been discovered in the salty Kentucky mud, he sets out from his small Pennsylvania farm to see for himself if the rumors are true: that the giant monsters are still alive and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River. Promising to write and to return in two years, he leaves behind his only daughter, Bess, to the tender mercies of his taciturn...
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