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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages: map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly formed African Brigade, a unit of these former slaves led by General Edward Augustus Wild-a one-armed, impassioned abolitionist-set out from Portsmouth to...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A jihadist leader has seized a supply of sarin gas and is wreaking havoc. Marine gunnery sergeant A. E. Blount, the grandson of one of the first black Marines, sets out with his strike force to kill or capture the terrorist. Several Marines are killed, some are captured, and the jihadist promises that unless forces withdraw, he will execute one prisoner a day. Immediately, Blount's friends and colleagues Sophia Gold, now with the U.N., and Lieutenant...
5) Invasion
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
212 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry were friends in Virginia, but now that they are both involved in the Normandy invasion, the differences in their positions is uncomfortable, for Josiah is a white infantryman and Marcus is a black transport driver, the only role the segregated army will allow him.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Berkley trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1853, Carolyn Vinton is left alone and pregnant after her fiancé, abolitionist doctor William Saylor, disappears. After his stepbrother convinces her that William is dead, Carolyn accepts his offer of marriage, not realizing that she is being drawn into an elaborate ruse by her new husband and his father, a pro-slavery senator - and that William is still alive. -- Publisher's description.
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