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"In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with...
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"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...
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Ein Atmosphärisches Meisterwerk über die Abgründe der Menschheit!
Als eine Frau namens Trish Klein in aufgewühltem Zustand in New Iberia auftaucht, stellt Dave Robicheaux fest, dass es sich dabei um die Tochter von Dallas Klein handelt - seinem Freund aus dem Vietnamkrieg, für dessen Tod er sich bis heute schuldig fühlt. Kaum angekommen, schließt Trish zweifelhafte Deals in Casinos ab. Der Verdacht kommt auf, dass sie in Wahrheit einen...
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Manche Erinnerungen - wie die an einen geheimnisvollen Sommer seiner Jugend - verdrängt Dave Robicheaux lieber. Doch das Geständnis eines sterbenden Mannes zwingt ihn dazu, ein lange zurückliegendes Rätsel um das Verschwinden einer Frau endlich aufzuklären. Damals wollte sein Halbbruder Jimmie mit Ida Durbin nach Mexiko durchbrennen, aber am Tag der Flucht verschwand sie plötzlich. Die Suche nach der Wahrheit stürzt Robicheaux in die Intrigen...
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Focusing on the South's four major military colleges-the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the South Carolina Military Academy (later The Citadel), the Georgia Military Institute, and the University of Alabama-The Young Lions is the story of young Confederate military cadets at war. From the opening of VMI in 1839 through the struggles of all the schools to remain open during the war, the death of Stonewall Jackson (a VMI professor), and the Pyrrhic...
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The Story of Dragon Rider Tal'on
After I had died on Earth as a seventy-plus-year-old man, I was brought to Antaera as a twenty-year-old. My life changed drastically from that point on.
Everything that I knew was gone, my family and friends, everything. The upside was that there were dragons to ride, and one wanted me to be his Rider. I had to go back to school as a seventy-plus-year-old. At least in my mind I was still seventy-plus...
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The author in flight gear after photo twelfth mission – second Air Medal (age nineteen)
He still wears lucky Air Cadet ring!
Hutch's third book contains short stories of boys on B-17 Flying Fortress crews in deadly missions with the Eighth Air Force in World War II and stories of his own teenage combat experiences as radio/gunner on twenty missions with the Mighty Eighth.
Teenagers enlisted or were drafted, trained and went into combat before...
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The Memphis Belle, completed 25 missions and became the symbol of Eighth Air Force success in the air war over Europe. Its national tour rallied support and encouraged citizens enduring rationing and sacrifices for victory. Heavy bomber aircrews proved their value with precision bombing. My writing is based on memories, diaries and interviews of other veterans and my teenage experiences as an Eighth Air Force B-17 radio/gunner on twenty combat missions...