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A Confederate deserter and a preacher's daughter converge on a North Carolina mountain at the end of the Civil War, each carrying wounds the other might heal.
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March
The absent father from Little Women goes to war as a Union chaplain, and his idealism about abolition meets the reality of slaughter and of the plantations run by the North.
Night Watch
In 1874, twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother, who has stopped speaking after years of abuse, are brought to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia by the violent man ConaLee has been made to call Papa, while the fate of her real father, a Union sharpshooter, remains a mystery.
The Sweetness of Water
In Georgia in the last days of the Civil War, George Walker, a reclusive farmer grieving his son, takes on two newly freed brothers, Prentiss and Landry, to work his land.
Days Without End
Thomas McNulty, a young Irish emigrant who fled the famine, enlists with his beloved John Cole in the US Army and fights through the Indian Wars and the Civil War, telling it all in a voice like no one else's.
The March
Sherman's March to the Sea becomes a panoramic novel of the Civil War's end, seen through the eyes of soldiers, slaves, and civilians swept up in the destruction.
Gone with the Wind
A willful Southern belle navigates the destruction of the Civil War and Reconstruction, driven by survival, ambition, and a love she doesn't understand until too late.
The Killer Angels
The Battle of Gettysburg, from June 29 to July 3, 1863, told from inside the minds of Lee, Longstreet, Chamberlain, Buford and others as it unfolds into the turning point of the Civil War.
Gap Creek
Julie Harmon, seventeen and used to doing a man's work on her family's farm, marries Hank Richards in the 1890s and moves with him to a house on Gap Creek, across the state line in South Carolina.
Andersonville
The Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia, in 1864 and 1865, where tens of thousands of Union prisoners starved, and the people inside and outside its stockade.
Far from the Madding Crowd
A shepherd, a soldier, and a gentleman farmer compete for a strong-willed woman in rural Wessex, and the pastoral landscape conceals real danger.
Doctor Zhivago
A poet and a woman torn between him and a Bolshevik commander live through the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and the landscape of Russia becomes a character.
Isola
Based on the life of Marguerite de la Rocque, a French orphan whose guardian sails her to New France in the 1540s and abandons her on an island off Canada with her lover and her nurse when he discovers the affair.