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Standing like a stone wall: the life of General Thomas J. Jackson
Par James I. Robertson, Jr.. 2001
Biography of Confederate general "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863). Describes how Jackson's determination and faith transformed him from a poorly educated orphan…
to a West Point graduate. Recounts his Civil War victories and the unflinching courage that made him a military hero. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2001Trumpet on the land: the Sibley scout, the skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, the battle of Slim Buttes and Crook's "horse-meat march" - the aftermath of the Custer Massacre (Plainsmen #10)
Par Terry C. Johnston, Terry C Johnston. 1995
In 1876, after Custer's defeat on the Little Big Horn, the army is hunting down Sioux warriors. Scout Seamus Donegan…
accompanies the column headed across Montana, finally confronting Chief American Horse at Slim Buttes. Sequel to Reap the Whirlwind (DB 55478). Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 1995Horizons of Heroes: The Next Twenty Years
Par Cameron Price. 2017
After returning from the Vietnam War, Cameron finds the United States has changed in ways he could not have imagined.…
He struggles to find his path through challenges in relationships, school, and employment. As an African American in the early 1970s, Cameron learns he must persevere a great deal more than the average person in order to achieve his goals and dreams. As one of the former highest ranking spies in the military, Cameron dares to share his view on how women know if it is “real love.” Horizons of Heroes: The Next Twenty Years is an amazing non-fiction book and an excellent read.Horizons of Heroes 2: The Next Twenty Years
Par Cameron Price. 2017
After returning from the Vietnam War, Cameron finds the United States has changed in ways he could not have imagined.…
He struggles to find his path through challenges in relationships, school, and employment. As an African American in the early 1970s, Cameron learns he must persevere a great deal more than the average person in order to achieve his goals and dreams. As one of the former highest ranking spies in the military, Cameron dares to share his view on how women know if it is “real love.” Horizons of Heroes: The Next Twenty Years is an amazing non-fiction book and an excellent read.Mixed Harvest: Stories from the Human Past
Par Rob Swigart. 2020
In unforgettable stories of the human journey, a combination of storytelling and dialog underscore an excavation into the deep past…
of human development and its consequences. Through a first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and the Modern Human she called Traveler, to the emergence and destruction of the world’s first cities, Mixed Harvest tells the tale of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Rob Swigart’s latest work humanizes the rapid transition to agriculture and pastoralism with a grounding in the archaeological record.House of the Waterlily: A Novel of the Ancient Maya World
Par Kelli Carmean. 2017
Set in the Maya civilization's Late Classic Period House of the Waterlily is a historical novel centered on Lady Winik,…
a young Maya royal. Through tribulations that mirror the political calamities of the Late Classic world, Winik's personal story immerses the reader not only in her daily life, but also in the difficult decisions Maya men and women must have faced as they tried to navigate a rapidly changing world. Kelli Carmean's novel brings to life a people and an era remote from our own, yet recognizably human all the same.