Award-winning author Lori Benton delivers a rich historical novel of faith, hope, and second chances. December 1795 A year has passed since Ian Cameron reluctantly sent his uncles former slave Seona and their son, Gabriel, north to his kin in Boston. Determined to fully release them, Ian strives to make a life at Mountain Laurel, his inherited plantation, along with Judith, the wife hes vowed to love and cherish. But when tragedy leaves him alone with his daughter, Mandy, and his three remaining slaves, he decides to return north. An act of kindness on the journey provides Ian the chance to obtain land near the frontier settlement of Shiloh, New York. Perhaps even the hope for a new life with those he still holds dear. In Boston, Seona has taken her first tentative steps as a free woman, while trying to banish Ian from her heart. The Cameron family thinks she and Gabriel should remain under their protection. Seonas mother, Lily, thinks its time they strike out on their own. Then Ian arrives, offering a second chance Seona hadnt dared imagine. But the wide-open frontier of Shiloh feels as boundless and terrifying as her newfound freedoma place of new friends and new enemies, where deep bonds are renewed but old hurts stand ready to rear their heads. It will take every ounce of faith and courage Ian and Seona can muster to fight for their family and their future . . . together.
What do you do when a dog you suspect is being mistreated runs away and comes to you? When it is someone else's dog? When the man who owns him has a gun? This is Marty's problem, and he finds it is one he has to face alone.
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him, in the final volume of the Shiloh trilogy. Reprint.
"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--
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Marty gets to keep Shiloh!
This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 is a stunning work of imaginative history, from Shelby Foote, beloved historian of the Civil War.
If so great and brave a man as his father could fall to the Shadow, what hope does he have?Does anyone ever truly escape the Shadow?Shiloh is the first book in The Shiloh Series.
Orders to move trickled down the chain of command , and by Thursday morning , April 3 , Clark was told to hold his command in readiness to advance at once . Stewart and Colonel R. M. Russell , commanding the division's other brigade ...
As the Civil War sweeps across the country, a Confederate tells of intrigue and adventure at Shiloh, the bloodiest battle in Tennessee.
However the rebel soldiers are intent on stopping that from happening. Why? Read and see as Shiloh fights his way back into the arms of his beloved, Scarlet! Now mix that with the story of our cat thief... literally a cat-thief!