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Pub. Date
[2005], c1939
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An epic story of the South's fight to maintain its way of life during the Civil War years. Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in order to save herself and her family.
3) Little Women
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War as they learn to navigate love, loss and the trials of growing up.
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Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When Virginia seceded, Van Lew's convictions compelled her to defy the new Confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Union, her courage in clandestine combat would never waver, even as her actions threatened her reputation and her life. Van Lew's skills in gathering military intelligence were unparalleled in...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Scarlett is a woman who is strong and has vitality. She deals with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, and the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Ashley Wilkes is the man she has wanted for so long, but he is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. At a Twelve Oaks barbeque, Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself. There she meets Rhett Butler. That is the first day of the Civil War....
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Series
Secret refuge volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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Seeking to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood determines to take her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from Twin Oaks plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri, where they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War. Jesselynn is also fleeing a cruel man in Confederate uniform who has pledged to take revenge against her for refusing his hand in marriage. No...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
The Eiger sanction: A professional assassin is forced out of retirement in order to avenge a friend's murder in the Swiss Alps.
Coogan's bluff: An Arizona lawman's unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer angers a tough NYC police lieutenant.
The beguiled: A wounded soldier finds shelter in an all-girls...
Pub. Date
℗♭2009
Description
A faded photograph leads Natalie Jones to the bittersweet secrets of her late father's past-where horses run free, families are bound by honor, and true love really exists.
Angel in the family: Sisters reunite for Christmas and experience a miracle.
A Christmas visitor: A father is determined to bring his family back together to celebrate Christmas after the death of his son.
Ordinary miracles: A troubled teen goes to live with a judge whose life...
11) Cold Mountain
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In the waning days of the American Civil War, Inman, a wounded Conferate soldier leaves the hospital where he is recuperating and embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with Ada, the woman he left behind. Deserters like Inman are considered traitors and are ordered to be killed by the home-guards, ruthless vigilantes who also prey upon those who did not fight, torturing and killing families of Confederate...