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A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"A collection of Louis L'Amour's never-before-seen fragments, film/TV scripts and treatments, notes, short stories, and advice to other writers, compiled and annotated by his son, that confirms his place at the very top of the pantheon of American writers. Here is a behind-the-scenes look at how Louis wrote the short stories, novels, literary and motion picture treatments, notes, and outlines that he wasn't able to finish or release in his lifetime....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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English
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An astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century—a "riveting...engrossing...'American Epic'" (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee.
"A vigorous, well-written book that distills a complex history to a clash between two men without oversimplifying" (Kirkus Reviews), Blood Moon is the story of the feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs...
"A vigorous, well-written book that distills a complex history to a clash between two men without oversimplifying" (Kirkus Reviews), Blood Moon is the story of the feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs...
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Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1994
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1st ed.
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English
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The story of the Trail of Tears, the forcible removal west of the Cherokee Indians from their home in Georgia. It is told as a romance between two Cherokees, The Blade Stuart, a plantation owner who sees the writing on the wall and wants to take action--better a new home than to be wiped out--and Temple Gordon, an educated, idealistic woman who opposes giving in. By the author of Tangled Vines.
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