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The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns.In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined...Categorized as:
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![The Medallion by Cathy Gohlke]()
The Medallion by Cathy Gohlke
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor fans of bestselling World War II fiction like Sarah’s Key and The Nightingale comes an illuminating tale of courage, sacrifice, and survival, about two couples whose lives are ravaged by Hitler’s mad war yet eventually redeemed through the fate of one little girl...Categorized as:
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![The Winds of War by Herman Wouk]()
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsLike no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation.Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II, as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom...Categorized as:
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![None Stood Taller: An inspirational WWII story to make your heart soar. (Historical fiction) by Peter Turnham]()
None Stood Taller: An inspirational WWII story to make your heart soar. (Historical fiction) by Peter Turnham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis book is a window into Britain's secret wartime past, step through it and this inspirational story of life and love will make your heart soar.It is March 1941, large swathes of the East End of London lie in ruins. Lily Heywood is just one more victim of the Blitz, lying beneath the rubble of her home. An unbreakable spirit, this is not the end for Lily, it is merely the beginning...Categorized as:
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![When We Were Brave by Karla M. Jay]()
When We Were Brave by Karla M. Jay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death camps. Izaak is a young Jewish boy whose positive outlook is challenged daily as each new perilous situation comes along...Categorized as:
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![The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian]()
The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsCaptain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following reinstatement into the Royal Navy. Maturin climbs the Thousand Steps of the sacred crater of the orangutans. A killer typhoon catches Aubrey and his crew trying to work the Diane off a reef...Categorized as:
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![Alamut by Vladimir Bartol]()
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers...Categorized as:
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Trinity by Leon Uris
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLeon Uris’s beloved Irish classic, available in Avon mass market. From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom...Categorized as:
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![Legionary by Hector Miller]()
Legionary by Hector Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe year is 225 AD and the Roman Empire is on the brink of a precipice.It will take a man with iron in his veins to set things right and accomplish the impossible.From a humble upbringing, a boy emerges who is destined to change history.This is the story of Lucius Domitius Aurelianus... -
![The Loving Cup by Winston Graham]()
The Loving Cup by Winston Graham
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSet in the closing years of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel is part of the Poldark saga. At the heart of the novel stand Demelza and Ross Poldark, their son, Jeremy, their daughter, Clowance, and the rival family, the Warleggans...Categorized as:
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![Brogan: Cowboy Pride by Kathleen Ball]()
Brogan: Cowboy Pride by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChristian Historical Western Romance Special Price until 1/31/20 Cowboy Brogan Kavanagh wants nothing better than to be left alone. Unfortunately, he’s left with no option and helps two women travelers. The Oldest spitfire, Ciara doesn’t trust him one bit and is constantly on her guard. Brogan is both amused and insulted by her attempts to keep him at arm’s length...Categorized as:
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![Yankee Stranger by Elswyth Thane]()
Yankee Stranger by Elswyth Thane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the eve of the Civil War, Eden Day encounters Cabot Murray on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. As they shelter together from a passing thunderstorm, they fall in love. The obstacles to their future are instantly obvious. Hers is a prominent Virginia family, and he is a Yankee newspaperman. Their country is about to split apart, and they will be on opposite sides...Categorized as:
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![Never Say Duke by Erica Ridley]()
Never Say Duke by Erica Ridley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYes, Virginia, there is a Viscount…Miss Virginia Underwood cannot resist rescuing a stray. Her latest find turns out to be a surly, reclusive war hero trying to recover from his wounds in peace. He doesn't want her help—and Virginia definitely doesn't want to fall in love...Categorized as:
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![Sharpe's Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell]()
Sharpe's Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsJune 1815: The Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, and Napoleon will meet on the battlefield...and decide the fate of EuropeWith the emperor Napoleon at its head, and enormous French army is marching toward Brussels. The British and their allies are also converging on Brussels - in preparation for a grand society ball...Categorized as:
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![The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel]()
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis stirring, poignant novel, based on real historical events that made of actual people true heroes, unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects...Categorized as:
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![The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa]()
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the unforgettable story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet, in which prostitutes, beggars and bandits establish Canudos, a new republic, a libertarian paradise...Categorized as:
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![Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf]()
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe...Categorized as:
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![In His Eyes by Stephenia H. McGee]()
In His Eyes by Stephenia H. McGee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHer heart sought shelter. Her soul found home. Ella Whitaker rescues a newborn from the dying arms of a woman of ill repute and at long last she has someone to love. In need of a wet nurse, she arrives at Belmont Plantation just as Federal soldiers demand to speak to the owner...Categorized as:
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![Last Stand by Duane Boehm]()
Last Stand by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGideon Johann had been gone from Last Stand, Colorado for eighteen years, seeming to have vanished after the Civil War. He is a man running from his conscience and keeping on the move seems to be the only thing preventing it from destroying him...Categorized as:
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![Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara]()
Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this stunning, unforgettable novel, Jeff Shaara carries us back thirteen years before the Civil War, when that momentous conflict's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War...Categorized as:
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![The Gadfly by Ethel Lilian Voynich]()
The Gadfly by Ethel Lilian Voynich
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Gadfly is a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, published in 1897, set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli...Categorized as:
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![Rora by James Byron Huggins]()
Rora by James Byron Huggins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe winds from the valley known as Pelice carried an ominous tale of sorrow and destruction. The army of the black-robed Inquisitors had laid seige to the defenseless inhabitants of the valley, destroying churches and killing those who refused to renounce their faith... -
![Sebastian by Christoph Fischer]()
Sebastian by Christoph Fischer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSebastian is the story of a young man who has his leg amputated before World War I. When his father is drafted to the war it falls on to him to run the family grocery store in Vienna, to grow into his responsibilities, bear loss and uncertainty and hopefully find love...Categorized as:
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![Chase The Wild Pigeons: A novel of the Civil War by John Gschwend]()
Chase The Wild Pigeons: A novel of the Civil War by John Gschwend
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Civil War South in 1863 is desperate and dangerous. For Joe, a 12-year-old boy suddenly alone and 600 miles from home, it's a nightmare come true. This adventure story is a tale of a special friendship that only comes along once in a lifetime... -
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![By Way of the Wilderness by Gilbert Morris]()
By Way of the Wilderness by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe always-compelling story of Moses, told as only master storyteller Gilbert Morris can deliver it. Readers will feel the sand beneath their feet as they follow Moses through his days in Pharaoh's court, his exile in the desert in Midian, his return to Egypt and confrontation with Pharaoh, to leading his people into the desert on their quest to reach the Promised Land. Lions of Judah Book 5... -
![Separate Roads by Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson]()
Separate Roads by Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook Two in repackaged RIBBONS WEST Series While the Civil War is raging, Brenton Baldwin has promised to provide a safe escort to California for Caitlan O'Connor. But now that his heart is totally hers, how can he leave her once they finally arrive? Meanwhile, Kiernan and Victoria O'Connor struggle as his work on the Central Pacific Railroad keeps them separated for long periods of time... -
![Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon]()
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsCharles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse...Categorized as:
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![Faith of Our Fathers: To Make Men Free by N.C. Allen]()
Faith of Our Fathers: To Make Men Free by N.C. Allen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSTATED FIRST PRINTING. Sept.2002 Covenant hardcover, Nancy Campbell Allen (Summer Holiday). Battles rage as passions on the home front fill the heart of every American citizen. The Civil War progresses in tragic intensity as the Birmingham saga continues, two brothers, along with their families and loved ones, divided in their loyalties between North and South...Categorized as:
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![Defender of Rome by Douglas Jackson]()
Defender of Rome by Douglas Jackson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe new book in the Roman trilogy, from the highly acclaimed historical novelist, Douglas Jackson. Gaius Valerius Verrens returns to Rome from the successful campaign against Boudicca in Britain. Now hailed a 'Hero of Rome', Valerius is not the man he once was -- scarred both physically and emotionally by the battles he has fought, his sister is mortally ill, his father in self-imposed exile...Categorized as:
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![Hard Country by Michael McGarrity]()
Hard Country by Michael McGarrity
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier. Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family’s struggle to settle and endure in the vast, untamed territory of New Mexico... -
![The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio]()
The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPraise for "The 13th Valley," a Finalist for the American Book Award: "There have been a number of excellent books about Vietnam...but none has managed to communicate in such detail the day-to-day pain, discomfort, frustration and exhilaration of the American military experience in Vietnam." --Joe Klein, "The New York Times Book Review"" "The" novel about the Vietnam War.. -
![Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergović]()
Sarajevo Marlboro by Miljenko Jergović
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMiljenko Jergovic’s remarkable début collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro – winner of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize – earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. Croatian by birth, Jergovic ? spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war...Categorized as:
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![The Templar Knight by Jan Guillou]()
The Templar Knight by Jan Guillou
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA knight in the Holy Land. A woman in the frozen north. A war that kept them apart . .Categorized as:
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![Texas by James A. Michener]()
Texas by James A. Michener
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSpanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states...Categorized as:
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![Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay]()
Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new book, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands—where empires and faiths collide...Categorized as:
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![Clay Legionary by J. Clifton Slater]()
Clay Legionary by J. Clifton Slater
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClay Legionary, book #1 of Clay Warrior Stories: A gladius is a short sword. A prodigy is a talented youth. Put them together and people die.Welcome to the world of 271 B.C. One thing separates the civilized farms and towns of the Republic from hordes of murderous barbarians. Standing sentinel along the border is the heavy infantry of the Legion, the Republic's killing machine...Categorized as:
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![The Scarlet Seed by Edith Pargeter]()
The Scarlet Seed by Edith Pargeter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the castle of Parfois, flaring down over the debated lands of the Welsh border, young Harry Talvace is held prisoner by his father's sometime patron and late destroyer, Ralf Isambard. Captive and captor, bound by implacable hatred and reluctant affection, seemed doomed to stalemate... -
![The Officer and the Traveler by Rose Gordon]()
The Officer and the Traveler by Rose Gordon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrayson Montgomery has just let his mouth get him into trouble again-quite literally. Being promptly informed that he must either marry the young lady he was caught with in a scandalous embrace or face a possible seven years of hard labor, Gray makes the obvious choice to marry her. It'll just be a marriage of circumstance with no chance of either getting hurt...Categorized as:
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![The Renegade by Donald Clayton Porter]()
The Renegade by Donald Clayton Porter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPublication Date: April 1, 1984 | Series: Colonization of America : White Indian, Book I Mass market paperback... -
![Gate of His Enemies by Gilbert Morris]()
Gate of His Enemies by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnjoy the first three novels from the acclaimed Appomattox Saga by bestselling author Gilbert Morris in a collector's hardbound anthology. On a prosperous Virginia plantation, the Rocklin family tries to live as they traditionally have, enjoying the pleasures of wealth and status...Categorized as:
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![The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr., Wade Hall]()
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr., Wade Hall
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Fox was a well known American author in the late 19th century and early 20th century, both for novels and short stories. Many of his works were historical novels that depicted life in certain parts of America, such as Crittenden: A Kentucky Story of Love and War...Categorized as:
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![The Road to Magnolia Glen by Pam Hillman]()
The Road to Magnolia Glen by Pam Hillman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1792, Natchez Trace, MSBitter since his eldest brother abandoned their family in Ireland, Quinn O’Shea travels to Natchez, Mississippi, ready to shuck the weight of his duty and set off on an adventure of his own. It’s time Connor, as head of the family, took responsibility for their younger siblings. While aboard ship, a run-in with three Irish sisters lands Quinn in the role of reluctant savior...Categorized as:
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![Even in Darkness by Barbara Stark-Nemon]()
Even in Darkness by Barbara Stark-Nemon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpanning one century and three continents, Even in Darkness tells the story of Kläre Kohler, whose early years as beloved daughter of a prosperous German-Jewish family hardly anticipate the often harrowing life she faces as an adult—a long saga of family, lovers, two world wars, concentration camps, and sacrifice... -
![The Empire by Richard Todd]()
The Empire by Richard Todd
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSeptember 11, 2001. Padma Mahajan mourns the loss of her newlywed husband, Major Kyle Mason, killed while defeating terrorists from crashing American 11 into the World Trade Center. As she watches harrowing videos on TV of American 11 missing the North Tower by mere feet, a mysterious visitor enters her apartment. possessing stunning knowledge about the future...Categorized as:
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![Texas Desire by Holly Castillo]()
Texas Desire by Holly Castillo
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCade Barret has lost everything and if he doesn’t find help soon, he’ll lose his life as well. Not only must he escape nearly everyone who has a gun, he has to force himself to continue forward for a special objective. His mission is personal, and his desire for revenge is great. For him, though, getting back what has been taken from him is worth all of the danger to his life...Categorized as:
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Northern Wolf by Daniel Greene
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA broken man will be forged in the flames of war... It is late 1862, and the United States has been ripped apart by civil war for over a year with no end in sight. The war is a distant thought to Johannes Wolf, a young German immigrant with a crippled leg keeping him off the muster lists...Categorized as:
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![Stigmata by Colin Falconer]()
Stigmata by Colin Falconer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1206: When Fabricia Berenger was struck by lightning in the main square of Toulouse, her troubles were only just beginning. Soon she develops mysterious wounds on her hands and feet - and some people credit her with the gift of healing. To keep her from the attentions of the Inquisition her family flee into the Languedoc and finally put her into a Convent in the mountains... -
![The Sentinels of Andersonville by Tracy Groot]()
The Sentinels of Andersonville by Tracy Groot
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNear the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only one year. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prison’s atrocities and will learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given...Categorized as:
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![True Women by Janice Woods Windle]()
True Women by Janice Woods Windle
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlive and pulsating with the events of our history, TRUE WOMEN tells the story of two dynastic family lines in Texas, the Kings and the Woodses. Euphemia Texas Ashby King could ride and shoot like any man, and she was there when Sam Houston's rag-tag army routed Santa Anna at San Jacinto . . .Categorized as:
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![Westward the Dream by Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson]()
Westward the Dream by Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs the U.S. descends into the Civil War, photographer Brenton Baldwin travels west with his sister Jordana, taking pictures of the developing lands and in search of their sister. Along for the trip is young Caitlan O'Connor, who has just arrived from Ireland...
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