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I survived volume 15
Language
English
Description
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody...
3) The rifle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
4) The spy
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Language
English
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As tension begins to grow in America during the revolution, Mr. Wharton, a British sympathizer, moves his family to his county estate named "The Locusts," with the intention to avoid any political conflict. Located in Westchester County, New York, the area was considered a common ground for patriots and loyalists. However, action starts to stir in the neutral town when an enigmatic man shows up at Mr. Wharton's home. Hoping for shelter from the severe...
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Series
Magic tree house volume 22
Language
English
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Description
Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River.
Author
Series
Reader of the American Revolution volume 2
Language
English
Description
Peter and Nathaniel Merrill, caught up in revolutionary sentiment, find themselves facing almost impossible odds when they join the Continental Army in 1777 under the leadership of General Benedict Arnold, to confront the British at Saratoga.
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Language
English
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An exciting Revolutionary War tale of double agents and counterespionage in New York State in 1780.
A year after his imitative first novel Precaution (1820) enjoyed only modest success, James Fenimore Cooper penned The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, a Revolutionary War narrative initiating the American historical romance, a novel and a genre that quickly put to rest the British critic Sydney Smith's 1820 quip, "In the four corners of the globe,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a Time of Revolution, Even Hearts Can Be Overturned In England together at the Harrow estate, Anne and Nicole find themselves facing divergent futures. While Anne comfortably settles into British life, Nicole once again searches the far horizon. Despite the raging War of Independence, she sets sail for the American colonies to manage her uncle's landholdings. The gallant Captain Goodwind captures Nicole's attention, but not yet her heart. In the...
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
"In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it "a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]." Now the story continues in Written...
14) The beloved land
Author
Series
Song of Acadia volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
285 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
She Yearned to Find a Home for Her Heart The tragic Acadian saga recounted in The Meeting Place, when the British drove the French from Nova Scotia, has followed two families over a score of years to the birth pangs of a new nation. The Song of Acadia has been one full of pathos but also of hope. Faith in God and family eventually have brought the Henri Robichauds to Louisiana, and finally, to a life of tranquility among the bayous. Back in Nova Scotia,...
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 545 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
General Washington ends a three-year stalemate and embarks on a secret three-hundred-mile forced march of his entire army to meet the French navy's Chesapeake Bay blockade and capture Cornwallis's entire force.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
178 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
Author
Series
A founding documents novel volume 1
Publisher
224 pages
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages, 22 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
For fans of AMCs TURN, the Outlander series, or Nathaniel Philbrick, this novel has it all. Spies. War. Political intrigue. Romance. It is Revolutionary War historical fiction at its finest.
THE HERO... Nathaniel Marten, is a reluctant Patriot. Cries of Revolution have spread across the colonies to his home in Pennsylvania. He is son to a German gunsmith and an English mother. Friend to a soldier and the Shawnee. "Toward which of my friends and family...
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Washington is full of doubt on the night of December 25, 1776. His army's morale is dangerously low. Each morning muster shows that hundreds have deserted during the night. The revolutionary spirit that burned so bright during the summer seems to be flickering out in the face of a harsh winter and repeated defeats. As a fierce winter storm blows down the river, the capture of General Charles Lee, the flight of the continental Congress from Philadelphia...
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Language
English
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Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this debut novel follows three generations of family--fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love.
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