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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life...
WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
Author
Publisher
AdN Alianza de Novelas
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"En las postrimerías de la guerra civil, los hermanos Prentiss y Landry, liberados por la Proclamación de Emancipación, buscan refugio en la propiedad del granjero blanco George Walker y su esposa, Isabelle. Los Walker, atormentados por el fallecimiento en la guerra de su único hijo, contratan a los hermanos para que trabajen en sus tierras, con la esperanza de que esa amistad inesperada los ayude a sanar. Prentiss y Landry, por su parte, planean...
5) Savannah
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea, with Savannah in its path. The Lester ladies--attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie--struggle to save the family rice plantation. Hattie and the general find themselves on a collision course that will astonish both of them when Sherman offers the city to Lincoln as "a Christmas gift."
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