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Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (233 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a Southern belle who enjoys her socialite lifestyle and the attention of many eligible single rich men. This idyllic lifestyle is shattered by the onset of the U.S. Civil War that eventually reduces her home to near ruins. Robbed of the luxuries she loved, she vows to grow strong so she will never be poor again. She begins to ruthlessly climb to the top of the new social order. Scarlett also has a complex, love-hate...
51) Conquistadora
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
508 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Durante su adolescncia en España, Ana Larragoity Cubillas llega a sentir una poderosa altracción por Puerto Rico después de leer los diarios de un antepasado que colonizó la isla con Juan Ponce de Leon. Y en los apuestoas gemelos Ramon e Inocente --que comparten su amor por ella-- encuentra una manera de llegar a la isla. Ana se casa con Ramón, y en 1844, con solo dieciocho años, cruza el océano para establecerse en una-remola plantación...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
476 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"The author retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's journey across the American South in the 1850s, on the eve of the Civil War. Olmsted roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, and the New York Times published his dispatches about slavery and its defenders. More than 150 years later, Tony Horwitz followed Olmsted's route, and whenever possible his mode of transport--rail, riverboats, in the saddle--through Appalachia, down the Ohio and Mississippi,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xiv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : genealogical table, illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large--twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide--had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, a pearl of 8,000...
Author
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
13 sound discs (ca. 70 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war.
This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where more...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
426 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Description
A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, and dedicating her home as a burial site for fallen soldiers.
60) A rebel heart
Author
Series
Daughtry House novels volume 1
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Description
Five years after the War Between the States, Selah Daughtry can barely provide for herself, her two younger sisters, and a cousin. Pinkerton agent and ex-Union soldier Levi Riggins is investigating crimes linked to the Daughtry plantation. Posing as a railroad agent, he offers to help Selah save the house by converting it into a hotel. Selah isn't sure she trusts the handsome Yankee, but she'll do almost anything to save her home.
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