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(0)Dorothy Love
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"A general's wife and a slave girl forge a friendship that transcends race, culture, and the crucible of Civil War. Mary Anna Custis Lee is a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, wife of Confederate General Robert E Lee, and heiress to Virginia's storied Arlington house and General Washington's personal belongings. Born in bondage at Arlington, Selina Norris Gray learns to read and write in the schoolroom Mary and her mother keep for the slave...
2) 21
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21 is a non-fiction book based on the lives of twenty-one women who have dared to bare their soul without shame. Their story range from a sixteen-year-old refugee girl fighting for her life, a young teenager fighting off her stepfather to a four-year girl who suffered from having her body scalded by boiling hot chocolate and in adulthood her heart scalded by fear and shame. One was kidnapped and some went willingly into their captivity.
Although...
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India Hartley, a famous and beautiful actress, is now alone after her father's death and embarks upon a tour of theaters across the South. Her first stop is Savannah's Southern Palace. On the eve of the second night's performance, something goes horribly wrong. Her co-star, Arthur Sterling, is shot dead on stage in front of a packed house, and India is arrested and accused of the crime.
A benefactor hires Philip Sinclair, the best-and handsomest-lawyer...
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There are no secrets that time does not reveal. Savannah, Georgia 1858. Celia Browning dreams of the day when her childhood sweetheart Sutton Mackay comes home to Savannah after two years in Jamaica managing his family's shipping interests. Sutton has all but proposed, and their marriage will unite two of the city's most prominent families. But just as Sutton returns, a newspaper reporter arrives in town, determined to pry into twin tragedies that...