Ribbons of steel
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Ribbons of steel volume 1
Language
English
Description
The year is 1835 and Carolina Adams finds herself enchanted by an unlikely suitor...the railroad. Frustrated by society's expectations upon her gender, she longs to study more masculine subjects and is thrilled when her father grants her a tutor. James Baldwin arrives to serve as Carolina's teacher, but of more importance, he is to court Carolina's beautiful older sister, Virginia. Will expectations--and Virginia's southern charm--elicit the hoped-for...
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Ribbons of steel volume 2
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English
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With the loss of her first true love, Carolina Adams finds life at the family plantation nearly unbearable. Desperate to escape, she moves to Baltimore to become a nanny to Victoria, a little girl whose mother has died. After breaking his wedding engagement with Virginia Adams, Carolina's older sister, James Baldwin immerses himself in work for the B&O Railroad, the other passin in his life besides Carolina. But when a shocking business proposal is...
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Ribbons of steel volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the 1840s Carolina and James Baldwin face the struggles of family life in western Virginia, where James supervises the construction of the B & O Railroad through the Allegheny Mountains.